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Action Reinhard Staff & History 2008-08-19 04:02:58 Aktion Reinhard Staff
(Rest and Recuperation)
From Mass Murder to the Mountains
Aktion Reinhard SS staff at Belzec
Treblinka staff at a resort in Austria
The SS staff when they finished their daily duties at the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka death camps they were allowed to leave the camp without undue formalities, but most stayed in the German liv Read more:Action
, History
Prelude to Kristalnacht - Zbasyn 2008-08-14 05:05:14 Zbaszyn
Deportation to the Border Town Camp – 1938
Map showing deportations from Germany to Poland (source: Sir Martin Gilbert)
The town was first mentioned in historical sources from 1231, and it received its city charter before 1311. As a result of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and was administered within South P Read more:Prelude
Corruption within the SS - Konrad Morgen the bloodhound judge! 2008-08-12 06:37:15 Konrad Morgen
"The Bloodhound Judge"
Investigating corruption within
the SS
Konrad Morgen from a rare 1972 interview
Konrad Morgen was born on the 8 June 1908 in Frankfurt –am – Main, the son of a railroad worker. He chose a career in the legal profession and graduated from the University of Frankfurt and The Hague Academy of International Law, and became a judge in Stettin. Read more:Corruption
Life in Majdanek! 2008-08-09 07:34:52 Majdanek Concentration Camp (a.k.a. Lublin KL)
Reception, Prisoners Daily Life, Sub- Camps
Reception of Prisoners
Most prisoners were brought to Majdanek in freight trains in tightly closed, crowded cattle cars deprived of any sanitary facilities, without food and water.
The newly arrived were unloaded in the vicinity of the Lublin railway station, on a siding s
The Nazi Occupation of the Soviet Union 2008-09-14 00:05:20 The Occupation of the SovietUnion
Brief Military Overview & Impact on Soviet Prisoners of War and Civilians
Hitler with members of his General staff
Adolf Hitler had decided to attack the Soviet Union as early as July 1940, directly after the victory over the French, and Allied Forces, but for once he listened to the objections of his Genera
The Myth of Blut und Boden, Walther Darré 2008-08-31 03:02:43 R. Walther Darré
Reich Minister for Nutrition and Agriculture and
the Myth of Blut & Boden
Walther Darré
"Ricardo" Walther Darré was born in Argentina on 14 July 1895 in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood known as Belgrano. His father was German and his mother a mix of German & Swedish descent.
His parents sent him back to Germany at age nine, to attend s
Jewish collaborators in the Warsaw Ghetto 'The 13" 2008-08-27 04:04:08 Abraham Gancwajch
The "13"
Nazi Collaborators in the WarsawGhetto
Abraham Gancwajch
Abraham Gancwajch was born in Czestochowa but spent some time in Vienna and Lodz. He was a journalist and returned to Poland from Austria in 1936. In Lodz he worked as an editor of a pacifist anti-Nazi newspaper, but left Lodz and moved to Warsaw during the Nazi occupation.
He was Read more:Jewish
The Holocaust in The Independent State of Croatia 2008-08-25 06:08:59
Essays & Editorials [home]
The Department of History, University of Northampton & The Holocaust
Education & Archive Research Team
The Holocaust in The Independent State
of Croatia
: Genocide between Political Religion and Religious Politics
Guest Publication by
Matthew Feldman
[photos added to enhance the text]
[Please note that editorials posted
The Story of Herschel Grynszpan & the events leading to Kristalnacht! www.HolocaustResearchProject.org 2008-08-21 07:42:34 Herschel Grynszpan
Herschel Grynszpan
Herschel Grynszpan was born on the 28 March 1921 in Hannover, Germany, to Zindel and Rivka Grynszpan. He was one of three children an elder sister named Esther and a brother Mordechai.
Zindel a tailor prospered and Herschel grew up an intelligent sensitive child, with few close friends and was an active member of the Bar-Kochba Jewish youth Read more:events
Action Reinhard Staff & History 2008-08-19 04:02:58 Aktion Reinhard Staff
(Rest and Recuperation)
From Mass Murder to the Mountains
Aktion Reinhard SS staff at Belzec
Treblinka staff at a resort in Austria
The SS staff when they finished their daily duties at the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka death camps they were allowed to leave the camp without undue formalities, but most stayed in the German liv Read more:Action
, History
Prelude to Kristalnacht - Zbasyn 2008-08-14 05:05:14 Zbaszyn
Deportation to the Border Town Camp – 1938
Map showing deportations from Germany to Poland (source: Sir Martin Gilbert)
The town was first mentioned in historical sources from 1231, and it received its city charter before 1311. As a result of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and was administered within South P Read more:Prelude
Corruption within the SS - Konrad Morgen the bloodhound judge! 2008-08-12 06:37:15 Konrad Morgen
"The Bloodhound Judge"
Investigating corruption within
the SS
Konrad Morgen from a rare 1972 interview
Konrad Morgen was born on the 8 June 1908 in Frankfurt –am – Main, the son of a railroad worker. He chose a career in the legal profession and graduated from the University of Frankfurt and The Hague Academy of International Law, and became a judge in Stettin. Read more:Corruption
Life in Majdanek! 2008-08-09 07:34:52 Majdanek Concentration Camp (a.k.a. Lublin KL)
Reception, Prisoners Daily Life, Sub- Camps
Reception of Prisoners
Most prisoners were brought to Majdanek in freight trains in tightly closed, crowded cattle cars deprived of any sanitary facilities, without food and water.
The newly arrived were unloaded in the vicinity of the Lublin railway station, on a siding s
Reich's Youth Leader - Baldur von Schirach 2008-08-07 07:34:10 Baldur von Schirach
Reich Youth Leader
Reichsjugendführer
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach was born in Berlin on the 9 March 1907, the son of an aristocratic German father and an American mother whose ancestors included two signatories of the Declaration of Independence. On his father’s side descended from an officers’ family with artistic tendencies and a cosmopol
The History of the Hitler Youth 2008-08-01 04:25:52 The Hitler
Youth
Jungsturm Adolf Hitler
Hitler Youth Propaganda poster
In 1920, Adolf Hitler, authorized the formation of a Youth League of the National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP) based upon the principles of an earlier German youth group known as as the Wandervögel. The Wandervögel (translated as "Migratory Bird") were the German equivalent of the Boy Read more:History
Prelude to the Holocaust - Julius Streicher 2008-07-29 04:32:14 Julius Streicher
The Beast of Franconia
Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher was born on 12 February 1885 in the Upper Bavarian village of Fleinhausen. An elementary school teacher by profession, Streicher served in a Bavarian unit during the Great War and despite a warning for bad behaviour was awarded the Iron Cross First Class, and he rose from enlisted man to lieutenant. Read more:Holocaust
, Prelude
Chelmno Death Camp -Survivor! 2008-07-25 04:07:52 Szymon Srebrnik
Chelmno Survivor Testimony
Protocol of the Interrogation of the Witness
On June 29 1945 in Kolo
Examining Judge of District Court in Lodz – Wladyslaw Bednarz
Assisted by Recording Clerk
In the presence of the parties - heard a testimony (not under oath) of the witness mentioned below. After the wit
Trial decision in the case against Josef Müller 2008-07-22 05:43:46 Josef Müller
Trial
Decision
[photos added to enhance the text]
Landgericht – Schwurgericht
Mosbach (Baden)
The following took part in the session of the court on 24th April 1961.
The accused Franz Josef Müller born in 1910 in Mossbach is sentenced to prison on the following charges:
Murder in 22 cases
Incitement to murder in 58 cases
Accessory to mu Read more:against
, decision
Auschwitz Political Department! The story of Wilhelm Boger 2008-07-17 03:59:58 Wilhelm Boger
Auschwitz – Political Department
Wilhelm Boger
Wilhelm Boger was born on the 19 December 1906 in Stuttgart- Zuffenhausen, the son of a local merchant who did not enjoy the best of reputations. Boger joined the National Socialist youth movement (later called the Hitler Youth) in 1922. Boger later recalled, “I was an old-timer in the Nazi movement.”
In the su Read more:story
Der ewige Jude - The Eternal Jew www.HolocaustResearchProject.org 2008-07-14 03:28:51 Der ewige Jude
The "Eternal
Jew" or the "Wandering Jew"
Nazi propaganda art the "Wandering Jew"
The concept of the "Wandering Jew" is far older than National Socialism. It derives from a literary and popular legend, about a Jew who mocked or mistreated Jesus while he was on his way to the cross and who was condemned therefore to a life of wandering on earth until Judgment Day.
&
Sigmund Freud - www.HolocaustResearchProject.org 2008-07-10 05:53:45 Sigmund Freud
and
The Holocaust
Sigmund Freud in 1938
Sigmund Freud was born Freiberg, Moravia on the 6 May 1856. His father was a textile deale
Plaszow Concentration Camp Survivor Joseph Bau tells of his experience. 2008-10-02 06:15:13 Plaszow Concentration
Camp
Joseph
Bau’s – Journey Through the Past
Joseph Bau
Former Plaszow inmate Joseph Bau (Prisoner Number 69084) invites the reader to a virtual tour of Plaszow Concentration Camp, as it was in 1944.
Here is the Main Gate – thousands of people pass through it – in rows of three, keeping time to the monotonous pace Read more:experience
, tells
Righteous Gentiles - Jan Karski Interview (The Warsaw Ghetto) 2008-09-30 07:43:53 Jan Karksi
Inside the WarsawGhetto
(Interview with Jan Karski, photos added to enhance the text)
Jan Kott, a representative of the Polish government - in - exile in London, at the funeral of Bund activist Shmu'el Zygelbojm
In the middle of 1942, I was thinking to take up again my position as a courier between the Polish underground and the Polish government in exile in London. The Jew
SS Security Police Commander Schongarth - www.HolocaustResearchProject.org 2008-09-25 04:56:42 Dr Eberhard Karl Schongarth
Security PoliceCommander
Eberhard Karl Schongarth
Eberhard Karl Schongarth was born in Leipzig on 22 April 1903. He studied law achieved a doctorate and first joined the Nazi Party in 1922 but left the same year. After serving in the army during 1924 he worked as a university professor in Leibnitz.
He rejoined the NSDAP in 1933 and joined the
Images of the Soviet Union during the Holocaust 2008-09-22 10:05:43 Images of the
SovietUnion
during the Nazi Occupation
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A Russain soldier lies dead from the onslaught of Barbarossa800 Read more:Images
The Tarnow Ghetto and the infamous Amon Göth 2008-10-14 15:19:02 Tarnow Ghetto
– Amon Göth & the Final Deportation
September 1943
Public humiliation of Jews in Tarnow (circa 1940)
During the summer of 1943, there were still about 9,000 Jews in the Tarnow Ghetto, the Ghetto was divided into two sections “A” and “B.” Section “A” accommodated Jewish men, women and children aged 12 years and above, all of whom w Read more:infamous