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This Nazi motto means “Work Makes One Free”.
This motto was posted on the gates of many
Concentration Camps including Auschwitz. This
told prisoners that work would rehabilitate them
and be beneficial to there stay at the camp. After
viewing this motto many prisoners thought that
hard working prisoners would be spared to live.
That was only a lie and that all prisoners would
suffer the same fate. This motto also showed an
example of the language the Nazis used to speak
there real intention about the prisoners such as the
Jews.
“Arbeit Macht Frei”. The Holocaust. 1997. Print
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Auschwitz Gates (Aebeit
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This camp was establish by Heinrich Himmler in April 1940
and was the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp
ever built. Located in Oswiecim, Poland Auschwitz was
three camps in one a concentration camp, a labor camp, and
a death camp. 1,250,000 estimated people died in
Auschwitz, mostly by gas chambers. 1,100,000 Jews, 10,000
Poles, 19,000 Gypsies, and 12,000 Soviet P.O.Ws were killed
in the death camp section named Birkanani of Auschwitz.
I.G. Farken and Diamler Benz plants were profited by
laborers from Auschwitz. On October, 7, 1944 a crematoria
exploded allowing 600 prisoners escape Auschwitz. On
January, 27, 1945 postwar trials were made on the staff of
Auschwitz after the Soviets discovered there victims. Today
Auschwitz is an museum housing the memorials for its
victims .
“Auschwitz”. The Holocaust. 1997. Print
.View of the kitchen barracks, the electrified fence, and the gate at the main camp of Auschwitz
(Auschwitz I). In the foreground is the sign "Arbeit Macht Frei." This photograph was taken after the
liberation of the camp by Soviet forces. Auschwitz, Poland, 1945.
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 These actions were done because of Nazis thinking Jewish writing would
corrupt Germanic Aryan culture. They burned bibles, prayer books, and
other examples of Jewish writing. The Nazis would also destroy the work of
Jewish and some non-Jewish poets, writers, and thinkers. Many book
burnings include the one organized by Josef Gobbles on May, 10, 1933. In
Kalisz, Poland, biblical scrolls from the synagogue were burned. Another
event took place in Prague, Poland were millions of Jewish books were
burned.
 “Book Burning”. The Holocaust. 1997. Print
Public burning of "un-German" books in the Opernplatz. Berlin,
Germany, May 10, 1933.
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These were marches done by the Nazis to get from
ghetto to ghetto. These were long, brutal, and
nightmare like marches. Death Marches usually
either took place in the hot summers or the cold
winters. The main prisoners of these marches were
Jews, Hungarians, and Greeks. The prisoners
would often suffer from starvation, diseases, and
sometimes death. The weak and tire were mainly
shot up by Nazi soldiers.
Krakowski, S. “The Death Marches”. Encyclopedia
of
Holocaust. 1984. Print
A view of a death march from Dachau. German civilians
secretly photographed several death marches from the Dachau
concentration camp as the prisoners moved slowly through the
Bavarian towns of Gruenwald, Wolfratshausen, and
Herbertshausen. Few civilians gave aid to the prisoners on the
death marches. Germany, April 29, 1945.
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Josef Mengele was born in 1911. He first joined the Nazi party in
1937. Josef later entered the Waffen-SS Medical Corps in 1940.
After having success there he then became the chief physician at
Auschwitz concentration camp. His first job was occupation was
to choose which prisoners would live or die. Josef sent 400,000
Jews to gas chambers. His main occupation was to preform
experiments on his patients including inmates, babies, and twin
children. After doing so he then observed their reactions. Josef’s
experiments included sterilizations, amputations, and injections.
After the war he escaped to Africa, but captured and granted
political asylum in Argentina from 1949-1959. Josef then escaped
the asylum and fled to Paraguay then Brazil. Unfortunately he
died in a swimming accident in Brazil in 1974.
“Mengele, Josef”. The Holocaust. 1997. Print
Dr. Josef Mengele
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Early before the war the Einstazgiaepen was just
local killing squad. At this time there job was to
round up Jews and massacre them. In 1944, this
group officially became a organized killing squad.
They would usually round up Jews from ghetto to
ghetto. The sick prisoners were shot up on a
countryside of Germany. The healthy prisoners
were basically sent to concentration camps .
Lawton, Clive, The Story of The Holocaust:
Danbury, CT: Gralier Publishing, 1999. Print
Members of an Einsatzkommando (mobile killing squad) before
shooting a Jewish youth. The boy's murdered family lies in
front of him; the men to the left are ethnic Germans aiding the
squad. Slarow, Soviet Union, July 4, 1941.
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This was a more efficient way for mass murder
of the Jews. Gas chambers were described as
tight small rooms or small tanks. The amazing
thing is that I could with stain 60-40 people.
The main prisoners were mental patents. These
chambers could be mobile or stationary. The
gas chambers carried carbon monoxide and a
Nazi made chemical called Zyklon B.
Adam U. “Gas Chambers”, Encyclopedia of
holocaust. 1984. Print
Gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz
immediately after liberation. Poland, January
1945.
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Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich, Germany,
1900.When he was old enough he served in the
Germany army as a Officer Cadet. Heinrich later
became a officer for Hitler and help establish the first
concentration camp at Passau, Germany in 1933. he
later became a leader of the S.S from 1943 -1945 and
was in control of all the concentration camps and
extermination camps. Heinrich later suffered from
psychosomatic illnesses. Towards the end of the war he
was captured by British troops and put on trial for
mass murder in 1944. On May, 23, 1945, Heinrich
committed suicide before becoming a war criminal.
“Himmler Heinrich”. Learning about Holocaust.
1999.Print
Portrait of Heinrich Himmler.
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This was a novel written by Hitler while in prison in
1924-1925. Mein Kampf later became the bible of Nazi
agenda. The book was written in two volumes The
Reckoning and The National Socialist Movement. The
Reckoning’ written by Hitler in 1924, focused on antiSemitism, power worship, and importance of racial
purity. The National Socialist Movement, written by
Hitler in 1925, was filled with philosophical analysis
ideas, but compared to the other volume it lacked
serious organization. In his work Hitler unveiled his
plan for Aryan world domination. In 1939, %.2 million
copies were sold and translated in 11 different
languages.
“Mein Kampf”. The Holocaust. 1997. Print
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Mein Kampf
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Rodolf was a good friend of Hitler and his Deputy
leader of the Nazi Party. He also became the
minister of Hitler’s cabinet. Rodolf then took part
in the Hitler’s failed Munich Coup and put in
prison along with him in 1923. Rodolf later was
jailed by British troops for convincing them that
peace is impossible. He then attended the
Nuremburg Trial of 1941 and trialed for crimes
against peace , but found not guilty. In 1987,
Rodolf committed suicide in West Germany.
“Hess Rudolf”. The Holocaust. 1997. Print
Rudolf Hess as a Deputy
Officer
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This group was an Nazi Party Intelligence service and
political police. The Schutzstaffel engaged in
punishment and murder and were the main tools of
terror and destruction. They dressed in black caps, had
death’s head emblems, and wore black uniforms. They
were thought to be Hitler’s bodyguards, but they
mainly worked for Heinrich Himmler. The
Schutzstaffel mainly worked in the concentration
camps. They had some secondary jobs like forcing Jews
to the cattle carts or preforming death marches to get to
the other ghettos.
“Schutztaffel”. Learning about the Holocaust. 1994.
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The Schutzstaffel in formation
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