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Escape from Belzec
2008-03-13 14:15:00 Resistance and Escape from Belzec Reder map of Belzec (Belzec Museum Poland) Christian Wirth?s constant problem at Belzec and the other Aktion Reinhard camps was the wild, undisciplined and often drunken behaviour of the Russian volunteers sent to him from the SS- Trawniki camp as guards. In the early days at Belzec they habitually fraternised with the local villagers, bargained with them on the black market for food, alcohol and even women and on occasions indulged in orgies. Even when on duty at the camps these renegades were mostly drunk which made their behaviour ? usually violently anti-Semitic, anyway ? even more sadistic towards their victims, and insubordinate to the SS ? all of which greatly hindered the smooth running of the extermination operation. Read the full article here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject .org/revolt/belzecresistance.htmlThe Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject...
The fate of the Gypsies at the Belzec Death Camp
2008-03-12 12:13:00 ; &nbs p; &nb sp; &n bsp; Gypsies at Belzec ; &nbs p; &nb sp; &n bsp; & nbsp; ; &nbs p; &nb sp; www.HolocaustResearchProject.org German gypsy family in front of their caravans In 1926 a Bavarian law called for the registration of all Gypsies in order to prohibit them from roaming about or camping in bands. The law also noted that they could be sent to labor camps for up to two years if they could not "prove regular employment." As Hitler rose to power, the Gypsies, like the Jews, were officially identified as n... More About: Death , Fate , Camp
2008 Student Essays - Phil Hemming
2008-03-10 09:58:00 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of representing the Holocaust in graphic novel form such as Maus II. By Phil Hemming ; The Holocaust, an event that marks the twentieth century and echoes historically, culturally and emotionally right up to the present day, is one that demands constant reiteration to each new generation as a warning from history. However, the mode this warning is presented in is subject to debate and discussion. Is it that, in the words of Adorno, ?to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric?? Does he mean literally or metaphorically and is no degree of aesthetification to be permitted, that the only portrayal is from the testimonies of survivors? Cutter believes that ?experiments at variety-even experiments which seem distasteful or inaccurate to others-are essential for a full understanding of the educational possibilities of the Holocaust? (Cutter 216). Is any portrayal of the Holocaust just... More About: Student , Essays , 2008
2008 Student Essays - Harriet Notley
2008-03-10 09:58:00 Why has the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington provoked such controversy within Holocaust Studies?By Harriet Notley ??America?s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country?s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust?: this is part of the mission statement of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (hereafter USHMM) in Washington D.C., which opened in 1993. The mission statement gives little indication of the controversy that has surrounded the USHMM since it was first suggested in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter. This essay will focus on the main controversies within Holocaust Studies associated with the USHMM: location, building, how exhibits are displayed, the use of ID cards, emphasis on Jewish victims and its political usage. The most logical place to start is with the location of the USHMM itself. The site has ?turned out to be one of the most cont... More About: Student , Essays , 2008
Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust - Nachum Remba
2008-03-06 11:47:00 Nachum Remba Nachum Remba Nachum Remba was born in Kolna, Poland in 1910, into a prominent Zionist family, Remba spent most of his adult life as a communal worker. Prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939, Remba was the secretary of the education department of the Warsaw Kehililla, the official administrative body of the Warsaw Jewish community. Although himself an employee of the Warsaw Judenrat, he did not hesitate to join a committee to combat corrupt Judenrat practices and he secretly organised some of the Judenrat employees into an association of which he was chairman. During the initial phase of the mass deportation of the Jews of Warsaw Nachum Remba established a “First Aid Station,” right next to the Umschlagplatz, which was the collecting area for the Jewish people of Warsaw, before deportation to the Treblinka death camp. The fake “hospital” was staffed with trustworthy doctors and nurses, Remba donned a long wh... More About: Holocaust , Resistance
The Holocaust in Bulgaria
2008-03-03 13:19:00 The fate of the Bulgaria n Jews Artist rendition of the Jewish Diaspora The history of Jews in Bulgaria predates both that of the Bulgars and the Slavs in the region. Jews formed a vibrant community during the Middle Ages, and were respected by many of the ruling leaders of the day, one of the Tsars even married a Jewish woman who later became known as Queen Theodora.The largest part of the Bulgarian Jewish community before the 15th century belonged to the Byzantine (Romaniot) Jewish rite. Only a minority spoke Bulgarian. The Romaniots had their own customs and even maintained a special prayer book, which eventually was replaced by the Sephardi prayer book. The largest influx of Jews to the Balkans began after 1492, when they were driven away from Spain. At this point, the Turkish sultan allowed the refugees to settle in the Ottoman Empire, and they were tolerantly treated both by the authorities and by the population of the Peninsula as a whole. ... More About: Holocaust
Wiernik Testimony - Eichmann Trial
2008-02-28 12:22:00 Jankiel Wiernik Testimony about Treblinka at the Eichmann Trial 1961 (Selected Extracts) Jankiel Wiernik arrived in Treblinka death camp on the 23 August 1942 and he escaped during the revolt on the 2 August 1943. Wiernik gives testimony at the Eichmann trial Jankiel Wiernik was a master builder and he along with others built many of the structures in Treblinka, which he described at the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961: ?When I came there, there were only three gas chambers. The large kitchen was not there yet. I constructed various barracks, I built the guardroom. I built the door, the entrance gate.? He described the arrival process: ?This is where they remained standing. In the courtyard, there were the two large barracks. They brought the women in to the left, and the men were kept outside. They made the women remove all their clothes. The men remained standing outside. On either side, there we...
Essay & Editorials BBC Interview
2008-02-27 12:45:00 Essays & Editorials The Department of History, University of Northampton & The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team BBC Interview with Matthew Feldman on David Irving MP3 Audio files Get Windows Media Player [here] Part 1 Matthew Feldman discusses David Irving, his recent incarceration, his work as a historian; both past & present. ; Also discussed is global Holocaust Denial. ; Part 2 How images of the Holocaust impact peoples views relating to denial, and how physical evidence can be manipulated or rejected by Holocaust revisionists. Also discussed are issues of Free Speech, and what constitutes racial and religious hatred.The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.org More About: Essay
The fate of the Jews of Europe - Belgium
2008-02-24 13:04:00 The Destruction of the Jews of Belgium The German Blitzkrieg overruns Belgium The Germans invaded Belgium and Holland on the 10 May 1940, as part of the Plan Yellow, and the Western campaign came face to face with Blitzkrieg ? Lightning War. On 28 May 1940 Belgium capitulated to the Germans on the terms of unconditional surrender, King Leopold and Queen Elizabeth decided to remain in Belgium and not escape to England. There were approximately 85,000 Jews in Belgium just before the war, all but a few of them in the two cities of Antwerp and Brussels. Yet when the Germans on 28 October 1940 forced all Jews to register with the police, the total number registered was only 42,000. While part of the difference was due to the mass flight across the French border, in the main it must have been reluctance on the Jews part to register. The Nazis were, in fact never able to lay their hands on the well-assimilated, native-born Jewish populatio... More About: Europe , Fate
Pinkus Kartin - Resistance & Revolt
2008-02-22 12:41:00 Pinkus Kartin Pinkus Kartin, member of the underground in Warsaw, also known as Eliahu Mozes and underground name, Andrzej Szmidt Pinkus Kartin was born in the city of Lusk in the western Ukraine, which was part of the Polish state between the two world wars. While still in his youth he joined the Communist movement and in the Spanish Civil War he was an officer in the Polish Dombrovski Brigade. When the Second World War commenced Kartin was in France working for the Comintern. He was recognised as a citizen of the Soviet Union and repatriated to Russia under the terms of the German ?Soviet exchange of citizens agreement ? which was honoured until the outbreak of hostilities between the two countries. In the Soviet Union he joined the circle of Polish Communists migrs, underwent special military training, and was counted among the elite ?Enterprises Group? that was chosen to penetrate into Poland, lead the undergrou... More About: Resistance , Revolt
Abba Kovner Resistance Leader
2008-02-18 10:13:00 Abba Kovner "Partisan & Poet" Abba Kovner Abba Kovner was born in 1918 in Sebastopol, Crimea, on the shores of the Black Sea. His early life was the typical model of Jewish youth of the time. He was raised in Vilna, the preeminent center of Jewish learning since the seventeenth century and was exposed to every variety of Jewish thought and the teachings of traditional and modem persuasions, from orthodoxy to socialism. Abba attended the University of Vilna as an art student, learning to sculpt. and later developed a passion for poetry. Like many other boys his age Abba became interested in the Zionist movement and joined a local youth group, the "Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'r". However Abba Kovners' destiny would be anything from typical, and the Nazi war machine would ensure that was to be the case.On June 24, 1941, two days after Germany launched its surprise attack against the Soviet Union "Operation Barbarossa", the Germans occupied Vilna. Several thousand Jew... More About: Resistance , Abba , Leader
The Conductor & the Pianist
2008-02-13 12:46:00 Artur Gold and Wladyslaw Szpilman The Conductor and The Pianist This poster from the Nowoczesna Restaurant on Nowolipki 10 in the Warsaw Ghetto lists Artur Gold and Wladislaw Szpilman as performers, and both men had tragic links with the Treblinka death camp. Click text above for enlarged view.Read the full article here:http://www.holocaustresearchproject. org/nazioccupation/gold&szpilman.html The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.org
The Rudolf Vrba Story
2008-02-11 11:51:00 Rudolf Vrba "I escaped from Auschwitz" Rudolf Vrba Rudolf Vrba was born as Walter Rosenberg in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia in on September 11, 1924 as the son of Elias Rosenberg (owner of a steam saw-mill in Jaklovce near Margecany in Slovakia), and Helena ne Grunfeldova of Zbehy, Slovakia. At the age of fifteen he was excluded from the High School (Gymnasium) of Bratislava under the so-called "Slovak State's" version of the Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws and forced to study at home. Early in March 1942, in rebellion against the deportation laws, Vrba ripped the yellow Star of David off his clothes and left his Czechoslovakian home in a taxi, heading for Britain via Hungary. Later, having been intercepted by frontier guards, he was first sent to the Novaky transition camp in Slovakia, where he tried to escape, but was recaptured by a policeman on a bicycle who had become suspicious of the young man who was wearing two pairs of socks. On June 1... More About: Story
Gross-Rosen
2008-02-07 11:50:00 Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp The original camp entrance at Gross-Rosen The Nazis established Gross-Rosen on the 2 August 1940 in Lower Silesia, as a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen, in the vicinity of the granite quarry of Gross-Rosen. On 1 May 1941 Gross-Rosen became an independent concentration camp; it remained in operation until mid-February 1945, the camps commandants were as follows: SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Arthur Rodl 1941 -1942 SS- Haupsturmfuhrer Wilhelm Gideon 1942 SS ? Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Hassebroek 1943 ? 1944 Other notable members of the camp staff were as follows: Read the full article at this URL: & nbsp; ; &nbs p; &nb sp; &n bsp; & nbsp; &nb... More About: Gross
Images of Nazi Propaganda
2008-02-04 13:29:00 Nazi Propaganda Images - Gallery # 2 www.HolocaustResearchProject [Next] [Last] 13 Jews Daily, featuring a map showing Jewish refugees flocking over Germany's eastern border645 X 45057 KB A foreign race, the Jew in the Middle Ages had no rights of citizenship800 X 53348 KB A medieval Jewish money lender and modern day brokers on the floor of the stock exchange635 X 45073 KB See the full gallery here:http://www.holocaustresearchproject. org/holoprelude/naziprop2gal/index.htmlTh e Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.org More About: Nazi
Vrba - Wetzler Report - The Full Text
2008-02-01 15:28:00 The Auschwitz Protocol The Vrba-Wetzler Report - The Full Text [Transcribed from the original O.S.I report of the US Department of Justice & the War Refugee Board Archives] (Photos added to enhance the text) Rudolf Vrba Alfred Wetzler I. AUSCHWITZ AND BIRKENAU ON THE 13TH April, 1942 our group, consisting of 1,000 men, was loaded into railroad cars at the assembly camp of SERED. The doors were shut so that nothing would reveal the direction of the journey, and when they were opened after a long while we realized that we had crossed the Slovak frontier and were in ZWARDON. The train had until then been guarded by Hlinka men, but was now taken over by SS guards. After a few of the cars had been uncoupled from our convoy, we continued on our way arriving at night at AUSCHWITZ, where we stopped on a sidetrack. Read the full text of the Vrba & Wetzler report here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/o thercamps/auschproto.htmlThe Ho...
KL San Sabba - Italy
2008-01-30 12:14:00 San Sabba View of buildings within San Sabba The large complex of buildings making up the rice husking factory constructed in 1913 in San Sabba on the outskirts of Trieste was first used by the Nazis as a temporary prison camp for the detention of Italian servicemen captured after the 8 September 1943. It was designated Stalag 339 but in late October 1943 it was converted into a Polizeihaftlager (Police detention camp) to be used as a transit camp for deportees bound for Germany and Poland, for the storage of confiscated property and for the internment and execution of hostages, partisans, political prisoners and Jews. The first room on the left in the underground entry passage was known as the ?death cell.? In the ?death cell? were kept internees transported from prisons or captured in round-ups and earmarked for execution and cremation within a short time, and indeed according to eye-witness accounts new arrivals in the ?death cell? often found th... More About: Italy
The fate of the Jews in Europe
2008-01-28 11:24:00 The destruction of the Jews of Italy Italian soldiers waving white flag of surrender The Italian Government surrendered its forces to the Allies on 8 September 1943, and on the following day General Mark Clark launched Operation Avalanche, the landing of Allied troops on the coast of Italy, near Salerno. On the 10 September 1943 the Germans occupied Rome, Mussolini?s officials perhaps guided by Mussolini himself tried to substitute half-measures to thwart deportation to the gas chambers in the death camps in the east. But after his captivity on the Gran Sasso, Mussolini was a deflated balloon, and the Italian government was much weakened, the Gestapo wasted no time, aided by the Jewish registration lists created in the days when Mussolini and his fascist government had issued anti-Jewish decrees. Fossoli di Carpi Camp in 1943 Read the full article here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/n azioccupation/italianjews.h... More About: Europe , Fate
Images of Sachsenhausen
2008-01-23 16:40:00 Images related to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp www.holocaustresearchproject.org [Next] [Last] A witness testifies at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin654 X 45033 KB An official order incarcerating the accused in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for committing homosexual acts640 X 38837 KB Anton Kaindl292 X 38912 KB Appelplatz & Gallows at Sachsenhausen531 X 39048 KB brickworks at the Klinker-Grossziegelwerke Sachsenhausen271 X 37027 KB Commandant Anton Kaindl testifies at Soviet Military Tribunal306 X 44821 KB Defendant Paul Sakowski at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin617 X 45035 KB Defendants Anton Kaindl -left and Gustav Sorge (back middle) at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin685 X 45035 KB Diagram of Sachsenhausen409 X 60070 KB Execution trench at Sachsenhausen800 X 48965 KB forgedfiver502 X 30441 KB from the Commandant at Sachsen... More About: Images , Ages
KL Warschau Gesiowka Concentration camp
2008-01-21 09:56:00 Gesiowka Concentration Camp Warning sign outside the Gesiowka Camp fence The Germans established a concentration camp in Warsaw, following the crushing of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in May 1943 by SS- Brigadefuhrer Jurgen Stroop. The SS and Police Leader suggested to Himmler that the former Warsaw ghetto area could be turned into a concentration camp. Heinrich Himmler demanded the total liquidation of the Jews of the General Government in January 1943, and that Warsaw was to harshly treated, which led to further deportations to Treblinka and the revolt by the Jewish underground in April 1943, which was not concluded until one month later. Friedrich Kruger, HSSPF Ost sent a report to Governor Frank on 31 May 1943, stating that the fighting spirit of the ghetto had impressed the German military mind. Himmler on learning of this report was incensed and he demanded the total liquidation of all remaining Jewish camps and ghettos. Lieu...
HolocaustResearchProject Images
2008-01-18 13:50:00 Holocaust Research Project Image Gallery Index Title click link Synopsis Page Aktion Reinhard Image Gallery Chelmno Period Photos Chelmno Modern Photos Plaszow Period Photos Plaszow Modern Photos Bau Holocaust Artwork Lodz Modern Photos Lodz Period Photos Treblinka "Remember Me" Belzec "Remember Me" Sobibor "Remember Me" Trawniki Modern Photos Nazi Propaganda Gallery Siedlce Images Gallery Zamosc Ghetto Treblinka Gallery The Nuremberg Gallery Auschwitz-Birkenau Today Auschwitz Period Photos Treblinka "Today" Images Sobibor "Today" Images Theresienstadt Images Auschwitz-Birkenau Today 2 Kovno Ghetto Images Mauthausen Image Gallery Buchenwald Gallery Buchenwald Liberation Album The Stroop Gallery The Stroop Gallery 2 The Minsk Gallery Einsatz Gallery Dachau Images Trawniki Docs & Images Judenrat Gallery Stutthof Gallery Images of Nazi Euthanasia & Eugeni... More About: Holo , Ages
Nazi Eugencs put into practice
2008-01-17 13:33:00 Images of Nazi Euthanasia & Eugenics www.HolocaustResearchProject.org [Next] [Last] A eugenics chart entitled -A eugenics chart entitled Hereditary traits passed down from two mates-640 X 43250 KB A survivor looks out a barred window at the Hadamar Institute480 X 62857 KB An emaciated survivor stands naked between rows of beds at the Hadamar Institute480 X 64042 KB Another view of Hartheim castle640 X 445See the full Image Gallery Here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/e uthan/euthangal/index.htmlThe Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.orgHoloc aust , Anti-Semitism , Genocide, Ghettos, Jews , Nazis, Auschwitz, Hitler, Shoah, Deathcamps, Concentration Camps , Treblinka, Belzec , Sobibor , Memorial, Himmler, Goring , Goebbels , Euthanasia , ... More About: Practice
Sachsenhausen - Oranienburg
2008-01-14 15:14:00 Sachsenhausen "Oranienburg" Concentration Camp & nbsp; Prisoners return from forced labor to Sachsenhausen The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was built in the summer of 1936 by concentration camp prisoners from the Emsland camps. Just north of Berlin, Sachsenhausen was one of the most notorious death camps of the Nazi empire and was liberated by Allied troops in 1945. The camp is sometimes referred to as Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg. The name "Sachsen Hausen" means "Saxon's Houses" when translated to English.Sachsenhausen was established in 1936 soon after Heinrich Himmler 'Reichsfhrer SS' was appointed to the post of 'head of the German police'. The camp was located at the edge of Berlin, which gave it a position among the German concentration camps: the administrative centre of all concentration camps was located in Oranienburg, and Sachsenhausen became a training centre for SS officers (who woul...
Zegota
2008-01-10 12:21:00 ?egota "The Council for Aid to Polish Jews" [Guest Publication] Hans Stanislav Kopec -Gdansk English language revisions by Carmelo Lisciotto Monument to ?egota in Warsaw Poland was the principal focus of military transport for the Germans after June 1941. The country acted as a conduit for the front in Russia. Therefore, there were many targets for the Polish resistance movement and from June 1941 to December 1941, they destroyed 1,935 railway engines, derailed 90 trains, blew up three bridges and set fire to 237 transport lorries. However, such success came at a cost as the reprisals by the Germans was savage in the extreme. In fact, so extreme was the German reaction, that the Polish resistance all but ended its work for about 10 months in 1942. The SOE in London could not effectively assist the Poles because the distance was simply too great for operation teams to overcome.But by 1942, there was little doubt among the leaders of the Polish ...
Simon Dubnow Biography
2008-01-08 14:01:00 Simon Dubnow Simon Dubnow Simon Dubnow was born in Mstislavl, Belorussia in 1860. He was one of the great Jewish historians and thinkers of modern times and one of the founders of Autonomism, the movement that advocated Jewish national autonomy in the Disapora. Dubnow received a traditional Jewish education, and acquired a broad general education on his own, he was close to the circle of the Jewish Enlightenment in Russia. Dubnow?s first works on Jewish history were published in the 1880?s. Dubnow first wrote several studies of the life of the Jews in Russia and Poland. His main work was a complete history of the Jewish people which was first published in German in ten volumes and later in Russian and Hebrew. Read the full article at: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/g hettos/dubnow.html The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team www.HolocaustResearchProject.orgHolocaust , Anti-Semitism&nb... More About: Biography , Simon
Karl Kaleske "Statement from the Warsaw Ghetto"
2008-01-07 14:27:00 Karl Kaleske Statement from the Warsaw Ghetto Karl Kaleske Karl Kaleske was born on the 19 February 1895 in Dobrin, Poland. He served with the 61st Infantry Regiment in World War One, and won an Iron Cross 2nd Class. He was also wounded in the conflict. He entered the police in 1922 and was married in 1925. His SS number of 290196 indicates he entered this organisation in 1937. Karl Kaleske joined the Nazi Party on 1 January 1940 with membership number 7906104. He was promoted to Untersturmfuhrer on 20 April 1939 while serving in the SD Main Office in Berlin, and he also served with the Gestapo in Koszalin, Poland. Karl Kaleske was adjutant to Jurgen Stroop, who crushed the Jews of Warsaw in the most brutal fashion during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in April / May 1943, he survived the war and in 1946 the prosecution for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg obtained an affidavit from Kaleske that was used as evidence against Ernst Kaltenbru...
Images from the Holocaust 'The Joseph Bau Collection"
2008-01-04 14:26:00 Joseph Bau Holo caust Artwork (H.E.A.R.T Exclusive) [Next] [Last] JB1785 X 800316 KB JB10560 X 704164 KB JB11672 X 800962 KB See the full image gallery here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/o thercamps/galleries/baugallery/index.html The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team More About: Images , Joseph , Loca
Natzweiler - Struthof
2008-01-03 12:12:00 Natzweiler-Struthoff Concentration Camp The main gate at Natzweiler-Struthof The Nazis established a concentration camp near the town of Natzweiler, 31 miles south of Strasbourg, on a hill in the Vosges Mountains. Natzweiler ?Struthof was one of the smallest concentration camps. It was apparently established after Albert Speer, Hitler?s architect, who had been on an inspection tour of recently occupied France and had noticed the presence of granite deposits in the Natzweiler area. The Deutsche Erd-und Steinwerke GmbH (German Earth and Stone-Works Ltd) reacted to Speers? promptings and by autumn 1940 had launched a project to quarry the granite, with the work to be done by prisoners. The commandants of Natzweiler were as follows: Egon Zill ? 1942-1943 Hans Huettig ? 1942 Freidrich Hartjenstein - 1944 Heinrich Schwarz - 1945 Josef Kramer -1944Read the full story at this URL: http://www.holocaustresearchprojec... More About: Ruth
Pery Broad extracts from Auschwitz
2008-01-01 11:12:00 Auschwitz Concentration Camp Pery Broad ? SS Man The following pages are extracts from the reminiscences of Pery Broad Member of the SS personnel in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Gas View of one of the gates in the electrified fence surrounding Auschwitz-Birkenau One day corpses of Russian prisoners of war were dragged out of a dark cell. As they lay in the yard they looked strangely bloated and had a bluish tinge, though they were relatively fresh. Several older prisoners who had been through World War One remembered seeing corpses like that. Suddenly they understood ?. Gas. The first attempt at the greatest crime, which Hitler and his helpers planned and committed in a frightening way, never to be expiated was successful. The greatest tragedy could then begin, a tragedy to which millions of happy people, innocently enjoying their lives, finally succumbed. From the first company of the SS Totenkopfsturmbann, stationed in the Auschwitz Concentration... More About: Auschwitz , Extract
Dora-Mittelbau & Nordausen
More articles from this author:2007-12-26 13:01:00 Dora - Mittelbau/Nordhausen Concentration Camp Dora ? Mittelbau also known Dora-Nordhausen was a concentration camp in the Harz Mountains, three miles from Nordhausen, Saxony, in Germany. The Lutherplatz in the town of Nordhausen The Dora-Mittelbau camp was first mentioned on 27 August 1943 as an external unit of the Buchenwald concentration camp. On 28 October 1944 it became a major concentration camp in its own right, with twenty-three branches, most of them in the vicinity, inside a restricted military area. Following Hitler's August 22 1943 order for SS-Reichsfhrer Heinrich Himmler to use concentration camp workers for A-4 production, 107 inmates arrived at Nordhausen from Buchenwald on August 28, 1943, followed by 1,223 on September 2. Workers from Peenemnde departed on October 13, 1943. Originally called Block 17/3 Buchenwald, the SS administration ordered Dora to be politically separated from Buchenwald at the end of Septe... More About: Dora 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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