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The Holocaust of WWII, a war within a war.
Nobody's free until everybody's free. --Fannie Lou Hamer What is
Genocide? The state sponsored extermination of an entire national,
racial, political, or ethnic group. ***This is the dictionary
definition.A big problem is that no consensus exists on the
definition of genocide. Heinrich Himmler set-up and directed
the SS and the Concentration camps. People sent to the camps: -
Communists - Political opponents / critics - Jews - Jehovah Witness
- Slavic people - Soviet POWs. - Dissenting clergy - Gypsies / Roma
- Gay men - Emigrants / people of color - Forced laborers -
Criminals - Mentally / physically challenged Heinrich Himmler His
chief goal was to further the German master race. Leading organizer
of the Holocaust; officer in charge of the concentration camps.
Directed medical experiments on gay prisoners (homophobic).
Heinrich Himmler (left) chief of the SS, with Adolf Hitler
(right).
Reinhard Heydrich was a member of the SS and chief of the Reich
Security Main Office (including the Gestapo and Nazi police
agencies).Heydrich was one of the architects of the Holocaust,
chairing the 1942 Wannsee conference, which finalized plans for the
extermination of all European Jews.He was later assassinated in
Prague, CZ. Heinrich Himmler (left) chief of the SS, with Adolf
Hitler (right). Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking Nazi
Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking Nazi.Due to his organizational
talents and ideological reliability, he was tasked by Reinhard
Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation
to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
He was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina and indicted
by Israeli court on fifteen criminal charges, including charges of
crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and
hanged. Adolf Eichmann in Germany in 1940. Adolf Eichmann coined
the phrase Final Solution of the Jewish Question and supervised the
genocide of millions of innocent people. Anne Frank was a
German-born Jewish girl from the city of
Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family, the
Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer in Amsterdam during the German
occupation of the Netherlands in WWII. House where they hid from
the Nazis. Statue of Anne Frank, by Mari Andriessen, in Amsterdam.
Anne Frank pictured in May, 1942. Anne Frank wrote a journal about
her time in a safe house in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Denmark saved
almost its entire Jewish population. Some Rescuers Some
Collaborators In 2004, 93 year old
Maurice Papon who was A (Vichy) French govt minister and Nazi
collaborator lost an appeal for a retrial after being convicted for
sending Jews to death camps during WWII. Chiune Sugihara, the
Japanese Consul-General in Kaunas, Lithuania, issued thousands of
visas to Jews fleeing Poland. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and
his colleagues saved as many as 100,000 Hungarian Jews by providing
them with diplomatic passes. 2007, A former Ukrainian Nazi
collaborator who worked with the Auxiliary Police, assisted in the
annihilation of more than 100,000 Jews in Poland. Mr Firishchak was
stripped of his US citizenship by a Chicago judge and ordered
deported back to the Ukraine. Oskar Schindler Was he a rescuer or
Nazi profiteer of the Holocaust ?He saved over 1,100 lives. SS
soldiers guard the captured
Jewish resistance fighters during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Jews
are captured during the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and deported
to the extermination camps. A member of Einsatzgruppe D is just
about to shoot a Jewish man
kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942.
Einsatzgruppen (German for "task forces") were paramilitary groups
operated by the SS before and during WWII.Their principal task "was
the annihilation of the Jews, Gypsies, and political commissars."
Mass grave at Bergen Belsen concentration camp, 1945. According to
their own records, the Einsatzgruppen was responsible for killing
over one million civilians without judicial review and later
without any semblance of legality. Concentration camp prisoners
wearing badges.
Forced labor The colors and their meanings were:
Auschwitz survivor The colors and their meanings were: Jew Gypsy
Bible Researcher Homosexual Habitual Criminal Political Prisoner
Asocial Emigrant The entire Jewish population of Poland
killed.
The Final Solution of the Jewish Question Refers to the Nazis' plan
to engage in systematic genocide against the European Jewish
population during WWII. Estimated number of people killed at these
death camps: Auschwitz II: about 1,400,000 Belzec: at least 436,000
Chelmno:at least 152,000 Majdanek: 78,000235,000 Sobibr: at least
170,000 Treblinka: at least 800,000 Jasenovac: 500,000840,000 Maly
Trostenets: at least 60,000 6 million Jews killed. The entire
Jewish population of Poland killed. Total of 11 million people
killed. Siemens (then: factories near camps to make military
electrical
Business who helped the Nazis in the Holocaust: IBM, DuPont,
Siemens (then: factories near camps to make military electrical
switches, now: high speed trains), and Krupp (steel). Row after row
of corpses covered the ground inside the Nordhausen concentration
camp.First Army men who captured the camp said that there were
3,000 to 4,000 inmates of a half dozen nationalities. Auschwitz gas
chamber Dachau prisoners Birkenau camp. Auschwitz Concentration
Camp. The Kill Wall "Selection" of Hungarian Jews at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in May/ June To be sent to the right meant
slave labor; to the left, the gas chambers. Birkenau, July 2006.
Some people did not believe or acknowledge the full horrors of
Hitlers genocide of civilians because WWI propaganda exaggerated
the German atrocities. Death camp ovens can be seen issuing from
Crematorium V.
Photograph of Birkenau, taken May 31, 1944, by the South African
Air Force, sent to photograph the fuel factory at nearby
Monowitz.The photographic analysts missed the significance of the
photograph; it was identified only in the late 1970s and analyzed
by the CIA in Smoke can be seen issuing from Crematorium V. "First
they came for the Jews but I did not speak up because I was not a
Jew. Then they came for the communists but I did not speak up
because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade
Unionists but I did not speak up because I was not a trade
Unionist.Then they came for me but there was no one left to speak
for me." 20th Century Genocides (Only a few)
Turkish Massacre of Armenians ( /23) Stalins Collectivization
Famine ( ) The Rape of Nanking ( ) The Nazi Holocaust ( ) Mao
Zedong in China ( ) Pol Pot in Cambodia ( ) Rwanda (1994)
Bosnia-Herzegovina ( )