Concentration Camp
... Germans were being called up for military service, causing a serious manpower shortage in the Reich. Stutthof camp was created, at least initially, for the first of the two factors mentioned. The present study is intended to provide a brief description of the camp. It is based, in particular, on a p ...
... Germans were being called up for military service, causing a serious manpower shortage in the Reich. Stutthof camp was created, at least initially, for the first of the two factors mentioned. The present study is intended to provide a brief description of the camp. It is based, in particular, on a p ...
- Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive
... reliant on this source as the Allied blockade intensified.13 Also the occupation of Sweden's neighbours cut her off from the possibility of direct Allied assistance, rendering her helpless and susceptible to German influences. More importantly, Russia had declared that Swedish neutrality was in her ...
... reliant on this source as the Allied blockade intensified.13 Also the occupation of Sweden's neighbours cut her off from the possibility of direct Allied assistance, rendering her helpless and susceptible to German influences. More importantly, Russia had declared that Swedish neutrality was in her ...
The Influence of Race on the Treatment of Prisoners of War During
... 51 percent responded that the Japanese were cruel while only 13 percent described the Germans in this way.9 The American people, far removed from the life and death struggle of combat, were much more likely to fear and resent an enemy who was racially different than one who had operated a vast netw ...
... 51 percent responded that the Japanese were cruel while only 13 percent described the Germans in this way.9 The American people, far removed from the life and death struggle of combat, were much more likely to fear and resent an enemy who was racially different than one who had operated a vast netw ...
Soviet Union-controlled POW camp in Macikai 1945
... Preparations for the establishment of the USSR NKVD camp in Macikai started before the end of the war between Germany and the USSR. On 22 March 1945, the Council of People’s Commissars of the Lithuanian SSR adopted Resolution No 162 ‘On the transfer of the POW camp and the land in Šilutė County to t ...
... Preparations for the establishment of the USSR NKVD camp in Macikai started before the end of the war between Germany and the USSR. On 22 March 1945, the Council of People’s Commissars of the Lithuanian SSR adopted Resolution No 162 ‘On the transfer of the POW camp and the land in Šilutė County to t ...
Basic information on Auschwitz in English - Auschwitz
... camp and the constant terror prisoners tried to maintain their human dignity. One example of this was the resistance movement, which was either spontaneous or organized. Camp prisoners mainly concentrated on saving their fellow comrades from death. There were various forms of resistance, such as mil ...
... camp and the constant terror prisoners tried to maintain their human dignity. One example of this was the resistance movement, which was either spontaneous or organized. Camp prisoners mainly concentrated on saving their fellow comrades from death. There were various forms of resistance, such as mil ...
Full text of the Preservation of European Concentration Camp
... 2.2 The Overall Participation 2.3 Approached Memorials by Countries 2.3.1 Austria ...
... 2.2 The Overall Participation 2.3 Approached Memorials by Countries 2.3.1 Austria ...
National Socialist Concentration Camps: Legend and Reality
... numbers fell to 7,000 by February 1934 as a result of the rapidly relaxing political situation20 and then remained quite stable, although in addition to political prisoners hardened criminals (“Berufsverbrecher”) and “Asocials” (tramps, beggars etc.) were interned too. The Jewish historian Arno Maye ...
... numbers fell to 7,000 by February 1934 as a result of the rapidly relaxing political situation20 and then remained quite stable, although in addition to political prisoners hardened criminals (“Berufsverbrecher”) and “Asocials” (tramps, beggars etc.) were interned too. The Jewish historian Arno Maye ...
Concentration Camp - Institute on World War II and the Human
... and her three younger sisters to move to Vaschow. Natalia stayed with her father in the ghetto. They escaped the truck to Auschwitz from the ghetto and walked 200 miles to Vaschow to catch a train. A school friend gave her away to authorities at the train station; her father escaped. She went to Mat ...
... and her three younger sisters to move to Vaschow. Natalia stayed with her father in the ghetto. They escaped the truck to Auschwitz from the ghetto and walked 200 miles to Vaschow to catch a train. A school friend gave her away to authorities at the train station; her father escaped. She went to Mat ...
3. World War II and the Application of IHL to POWs in Indiana
... Doyle points out, “German soldiers jokingly called the ‘PW’ stamped on the backs of their shirts and trousers Pensionierte Wehrmacht, or ‘military retiree,’ meaning they considered themselves put out to pasture.”23 As global conflict persisted, however, a war-weary American public became increasingl ...
... Doyle points out, “German soldiers jokingly called the ‘PW’ stamped on the backs of their shirts and trousers Pensionierte Wehrmacht, or ‘military retiree,’ meaning they considered themselves put out to pasture.”23 As global conflict persisted, however, a war-weary American public became increasingl ...
The White Buses - Harbour Of Hope
... This lead to reactions and protests from Sweden - the Swedish Red Cross acted by means of pleading and démarcher through its president, Prince Carl. In April 1933 he wrote to the German president Hindenburg protesting against the Nazis limitations of the freedom and rights of the Jews. During autumn ...
... This lead to reactions and protests from Sweden - the Swedish Red Cross acted by means of pleading and démarcher through its president, Prince Carl. In April 1933 he wrote to the German president Hindenburg protesting against the Nazis limitations of the freedom and rights of the Jews. During autumn ...
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... about and consider God. Now, in the frigid December cold, army technicians made last-minute adjustments to the metal platforms of portable rocket-launch pads. On each sat a missile called the V2. The giant V-2 rocket was the most advanced flying weapon ever created. It was 46 feet long, carried a wa ...
... about and consider God. Now, in the frigid December cold, army technicians made last-minute adjustments to the metal platforms of portable rocket-launch pads. On each sat a missile called the V2. The giant V-2 rocket was the most advanced flying weapon ever created. It was 46 feet long, carried a wa ...
German POW Camps in Florida
... several reasons for this. First, Japanese-Americans were singled out because they lived in small ethnic neighborhoods, were easily distinguishable from the general population, and were small in number. Second, after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese sentiment was very palpable during t ...
... several reasons for this. First, Japanese-Americans were singled out because they lived in small ethnic neighborhoods, were easily distinguishable from the general population, and were small in number. Second, after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese sentiment was very palpable during t ...
hitler`s forgotten genocides
... According to Alexander Dallin, “German policy had caused, or at the very least had tolerated the degradation of the prisoners – and then held it up to its own people as something to be reviled, as something typical of a sub-human who could never be like Western man.”38 Daniel Goldhagen probably over ...
... According to Alexander Dallin, “German policy had caused, or at the very least had tolerated the degradation of the prisoners – and then held it up to its own people as something to be reviled, as something typical of a sub-human who could never be like Western man.”38 Daniel Goldhagen probably over ...
lithuanian prisoners of war in western
... The fate of POWs from the Baltic countries was for a long time unclear. At the Yalta Conference on 11 February 1945, Western Allies and the Soviet Union agreed regarding forced repatriation of Soviet citizens, but western countries did not consider citizens of Lithuania and other Baltic countries, a ...
... The fate of POWs from the Baltic countries was for a long time unclear. At the Yalta Conference on 11 February 1945, Western Allies and the Soviet Union agreed regarding forced repatriation of Soviet citizens, but western countries did not consider citizens of Lithuania and other Baltic countries, a ...
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
... allowed to leave Germany.[9] In March 1944, part of the camp was redesignated as an Erholungslager ("recovery camp"),[10] where prisoners too sick to work were brought from other concentration camps. Supposedly, they were in Bergen-Belsen to recover and then to return to their original camps, and to ...
... allowed to leave Germany.[9] In March 1944, part of the camp was redesignated as an Erholungslager ("recovery camp"),[10] where prisoners too sick to work were brought from other concentration camps. Supposedly, they were in Bergen-Belsen to recover and then to return to their original camps, and to ...
Concentration Camp Dachau Entry Registers
... prisoners, and some prisoners of war from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, France, and the Soviet Union. In addition to the main camp located southeast of the town of Dachau, the camp system grew to include a network of approximately 100 subcamps scattered throughout southern Germany and Austria. Most o ...
... prisoners, and some prisoners of war from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, France, and the Soviet Union. In addition to the main camp located southeast of the town of Dachau, the camp system grew to include a network of approximately 100 subcamps scattered throughout southern Germany and Austria. Most o ...
The Death Marches and the Liberators
... • The last camps encountered by the Americans were Mauthausen and Gusen on ...
... • The last camps encountered by the Americans were Mauthausen and Gusen on ...
Prisoner of war camps in Macikai 1941–1948
... evacuated. In early July the Soviet Army arrived in Lithuania. Evacuation from Stalag Luft VI started on 14 July 1944 (Friday) and took place in several stages. This was Friday, and took place in several stages. The first batch consisted of 1,100 Americans and 900 Brits. They were taken to Šilutė ra ...
... evacuated. In early July the Soviet Army arrived in Lithuania. Evacuation from Stalag Luft VI started on 14 July 1944 (Friday) and took place in several stages. This was Friday, and took place in several stages. The first batch consisted of 1,100 Americans and 900 Brits. They were taken to Šilutė ra ...
World War Two and Labor: A Lost Cause?
... lower wages (or none at all), and lived in conditions more deprived than the German population, which was subject to a labor draft rather than forced labor. Herbert includes here a discussion of Jews outside Germany who were forced to work at concentration camps, and examines the postwar problem of ...
... lower wages (or none at all), and lived in conditions more deprived than the German population, which was subject to a labor draft rather than forced labor. Herbert includes here a discussion of Jews outside Germany who were forced to work at concentration camps, and examines the postwar problem of ...
Anne Frank
... Of the 1,019 passengers, 549—including all children younger than fifteen—were sent directly to the gas chambers. Anne had turned fifteen three months earlier and was one of the youngest people to be spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival, and nev ...
... Of the 1,019 passengers, 549—including all children younger than fifteen—were sent directly to the gas chambers. Anne had turned fifteen three months earlier and was one of the youngest people to be spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival, and nev ...
german nazi ConCentration Camps
... World War concentration camps were places of isolation, rather than mass extermination, of the inmates. According to the national socialist propaganda, they were to be “re-educated” – hard labour and tough discipline were supposed to bring them back to the bosom of the German national community. In ...
... World War concentration camps were places of isolation, rather than mass extermination, of the inmates. According to the national socialist propaganda, they were to be “re-educated” – hard labour and tough discipline were supposed to bring them back to the bosom of the German national community. In ...
1.27.14 Socratic Seminar
... concentration and death camps were run by SS Officers who were like the Nazis police force. The largest death camp built was Auschwitz-Birkenau, which had both a labor camp (Auschwitz) and an extermination camp (Birkenau). At the peak of operations, Birkenau's gas chambers killed approximately 8,000 ...
... concentration and death camps were run by SS Officers who were like the Nazis police force. The largest death camp built was Auschwitz-Birkenau, which had both a labor camp (Auschwitz) and an extermination camp (Birkenau). At the peak of operations, Birkenau's gas chambers killed approximately 8,000 ...
Findings of the War Crimes Tribunal
... the caculated repreisals of state and individual acts of brutality which had taken over a half million Asiatics and Westerners. Most of those apprehended had committed crimes against Western nationals, who represented less than a tenth of the victims. About 4,000 of the suspects of brutality were br ...
... the caculated repreisals of state and individual acts of brutality which had taken over a half million Asiatics and Westerners. Most of those apprehended had committed crimes against Western nationals, who represented less than a tenth of the victims. About 4,000 of the suspects of brutality were br ...
mauthausen sub-camps
... prisoners were initially set to work on excavating huge underground tunnels, and then for armaments production for Steyr-DaimlerPuch AG (the largest arms manufacturer in Nazi Germany). The tunnel excavation began in the spring of 1944: the camp opened on 21 April with 500 prisoners sent from Mauthau ...
... prisoners were initially set to work on excavating huge underground tunnels, and then for armaments production for Steyr-DaimlerPuch AG (the largest arms manufacturer in Nazi Germany). The tunnel excavation began in the spring of 1944: the camp opened on 21 April with 500 prisoners sent from Mauthau ...
HASAG
HASAG (also known as Hugo Schneider AG, or by its original name in German: Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft Metallwarenfabrik) was a German metal goods manufacturer founded in 1863. Based in Leipzig, it grew from a small business making lamps and other small metal products by hand into a large factory and publicly traded company that sold its wares in several countries. During the Second World War, Hasag became a Nazi arms-manufacturing conglomerate with dozens of factories across German-occupied Europe using slave labour on a massive scale. Tens of thousands of Jews from Poland, and other prisoners, died producing munition for Hasag.It began making armaments during the First World War, a decision that ultimately increased the company's profitability. The loss of military business after the war resulted in dropping sales. HASAG struggled during the 1920s in the Weimar Republic. As the Nazi Party grew in influence and eventually came to power in 1933, growing militarism led to the company's return to small arms production under the new SS leadership. Following the invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II the company expanded to accommodate thousands of NS-Zwangsarbeiters from concentration camps and ghettos. It was the third largest user of forced labor in Europe, with armaments factories in Germany and Poland. Though HASAG was dismantled after the war, the trademark remained in use until 1974.