Displaying: 1 10 of 10 matches for “SS and the holocaust”
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1. Anne Frank: Amsterdam and deportation
German SS and police discovered the Frank family in 1944 and deported them to Auschwitz-Birkenau ... concentration camps and killing centers in the east. That same month, the Frank family went into hiding. They
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2. Major death marches and evacuations, 1944-1945
and extremely harsh conditions. During death marches, SS guards brutally mistreated the prisoners and ... defeat. As Allied forces approached Nazi camps, the SS organized death marches of concentration camp ... killed many. The largest death marches were launched from Auschwitz and
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3. Einsatzgruppen massacre sites in Ukraine and surrounding areas
Union, the Germans began to perpetrate mass shootings of Jewish men, women, and children in territory ... Einsatzgruppen in German. Units of Einsatzgruppen followed the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union and ... shootings. These units included Order Police battalions, military units (Wehrmacht), and the Waffen
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4. Voyage of the "St. Louis," May 13-June 17, 1939
The plight of German-Jewish refugees, persecuted at home and unwanted abroad, is illustrated by ... the voyage of the SS "St. Louis." On May 13, 1939, the SS "St. Louis," a ... However, Great Britain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands agreed to accept the stranded refugees. After
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5. Berlin environs, 1942
1942. High-ranking officials from the Nazi party, the SS, and the German state met to coordinate and ... officials were informed that the SS would be responsible for carrying out the killing program and that the ... Berlin was a center of Jewish life in Germany and—as the capital of the Reich—also the center ... for the planning of the "Final Solution," the decision to kill the Jews of Europe. The Wannsee
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6. Nazi concentration camps, 1933–34
as chancellor in January 1933. The Storm Troopers (SA) and the police established concentration camps ... early camps were disbanded and replaced by centrally organized concentration camps under the exclusive ... jurisdiction of the SS (Schutzstaffel; the elite guard of the Nazi state ... ). Dachau was the only concentration camp opened in 1933 that remained in operation until 1945, and was the
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7. Nazi concentration camps, 1933–39
chancellor in January 1933. The Storm Troopers (SA) and the police established concentration camps to handle ... established on the local level throughout Germany. Gradually, most of these early camps were disbanded and ... replaced by centrally organized concentration camps under the exclusive jurisdiction of the SS ... The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as
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8. Einsatzgruppen massacres in eastern Europe (enlargement)
Einsatzgruppen were German special duty units, composed primarily of SS and police personnel ... advanced deep into Soviet territory, and carried out mass-murder operations. Wherever the Einsatzgruppen ... assigned to kill Jews as part of the Nazi program to kill the Jews of Europe. During the ... invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the mobile killing squads followed the German army as it
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9. Major deportations to killing centers, 1942-1944
At the Wannsee Conference in Berlin in January 1942, the SS (the ... elite guard of the Nazi state) and representatives of German government ministries estimated that the ... Germany and German-occupied Europe were deported by rail to the killing ... "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to kill the Jews of Europe, would involve 11 million European Jews
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10. Major Nazi camps in Europe, January 1944
Throughout German-occupied Europe, the Germans arrested those who resisted their domination and ... According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners registered in the concentration camps in ... concentration camps. The Germans deported Jews from all over occupied Europe to ... extermination camps in Poland, where they were systematically killed, and also to concentration camps, where