THE HOLOCAUST

AUSCHWITZ

Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp that the

Nazis had .when you where unloaded from the box cars you would

through all of your possessions into one big pile. Workers called

canada kommandos would sort out everything. Then you would be

sorted into two lines. People that could work and people that could

not work. If you could not work you where sent to the gas

chambers but they told you that you where going to take a shower.

If you could work you where sent to the work shops to help the war

effort. The poison they used to the people was called Zyklon B.

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People called sonder kommandos would get the bodies

out of the gas chambers. The bodies where then taken to the

crematories. Towards the end of the war they where killing so many

people that the crematories piled up that they had to start digging

mass graves.

on January, 27, 1945, soviet forces liberated Auschwitz.

Lawton, Clive: Auschwitz, Cambridge Mass., candle wick press, 2002, print.

AUSCHWITZ

Barracks in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This

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THE GESTAPO

The Gestapo where the German secret state and political

police force. The head of the Gestapo was Adolf Eichmann. They

imprisoned, tortured and disposed of opponents of Nazism. They

also supervised the seizing of property, deportation of Jews and

any other infer races. By 1936 the Gestapo merged in to the SS

and by the 1940’s they took control of Germany and its

territories. After the war very few major figures of the Gestapo

where captured and brought to trial.

Gestapo, The Holocaust, 1997, print.

THE GESTAPO

Headquarters of the Nazi Gestapo (secret state police) and of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). Berlin, Germany.

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HEINRICH HIMMLER

Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS and later the Gestapo, He

appointed Adolf Eichmann to the head of the Gestapo. He was also one of

Hitler’s main advisors. Himmler turned the SS in to a powerful and elite

army. Hitler gave him control of Poland, minister of the interior and in

charge of propaganda. Hitler also made him in charge of the intelligence

police and the civil service and court system. Himmler knew the war was

going to end so he negotiated with the allies to continue the war. Hitler

found out and expelled him. He tried to escape Germany as a soldier and

was arrested by British troops and committed suicide on May, 23, 1945.

Himmler, Heinrich: The Holocaust, 1997, Print.

HEINRICH HIMMLER

Heinrich Himmler

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DR. JOSEF MENGELE

Dr. Mengele was known as “The Angel of Death.”

He preformed cruel and unusual experiments on the arriving

people. Mengele primarily on experiments on infants, young twins,

and dwarfs and he was posted at Auschwitz. Before Auschwitz was

liberated he fled to Argentina. When the allies found of he was

there he then fled to Brazil. Before they could catch him in Brazil

he jumped of a cliff and thought to have drowned.

Mengele, Josef: Learning about the holocaust, 2001, print.

DR. JOSEF MENGELE

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Dr. Josef Mengele

THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

Most of the Nazis where put to death in the trials for being inhuman.

FDR and Churchill did not want the Nazis to have a trial, but Stalin did.

Hitler shot himself on April, 30, 1945 so he would not be captured.

Rudolf Hess a military leader still went to trial even thought he spent

the duration of the was in a British prison. When classifying the Nazi

war criminals they where ether major or miner. Military and political

leaders where major. Minor where civilians and the army.

Rice, Earle: The Nuremberg Trials, Sandiego CA, Famous Trials, 1997, print.

Trials of was criminals, Learning About the Holocaust, 2001, print.

THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Tuesday, November 20, 1945 - Tuesday, October 01, 1946

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THE SS

The SS was at first Hitler's body guards. Then when he took

more power the turned them in to his own army. He appointed

Heinrich Himmler to the head of the SS. The uniform was all black

and a cap with a death-head emblem. They all so ran the death

camps along side the Gestapo. The SS’s motto was “Loyalty is my

honor.” When the SS got bigger Heinrich Himmler made an elite

unite called the Waffen-SS, and they where the best of the best.

SS, learning About the Holocaust, 2001, print.

THE SS

SS Troops

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