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526. While on an inspection tour of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley view the bodies of prisoners shot by SS during the evacuation of the camp.
While on an inspection tour of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, Generals George ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Fred Mercer
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527. While on an inspection tour of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, Generals Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton and Omar Bradley view the bodies of prisoners shot by SS during the evacuation of the camp.
a player on the famed Hakoah Vienna soccer teams of the 1920s and 30s. ... While on an inspection tour of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, Generals Dwight
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528. Defendant Otto Schwarzenberger, SS Colonel and chief of an office in the Staff Main Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germandom, testifies in his own defense during the RuSHA Trial.
all leading officials in the RuSHA or Main Race and Resettlement Office, a central organization in the ... the Lebensborn Society and the Main Office for Repatriation of Racial Germans. The indictment against
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529. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler strolls with two other SS officials [probably at Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair), Hitler's field headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia].
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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530. Former SS guards and German mayors from nearby towns are forced to listen to a British radio broadcast condemning German treatment of prisoners.
April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the ... interned abroad. Conditions in the camp were good by concentration camp standards, and most prisoners were
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531. The mass grave near Nammering from which the bodies of prisoners shot by the SS were exhumed following the occupation of the area by U.S.
by the 150 SS and police officers guarding the train. The commanding officer in charge, Lieutenant ... the local inhabitants attempted to give the prisoners food and water, but these provisions were stolen
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532. Corpses in the crematorium mortuary. These rooms became so full of bodies that the SS staff and survivors began piling corpses behind the crematorium, where they were discovered by U.S.
survivors began piling corpses behind the crematorium, where they were discovered by U.S. ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Norman Sommers
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533. Corpses piled in the crematorium mortuary. These rooms became so full of bodies that the SS staff and survivors began piling corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U.S.
and survivors began piling corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U.S. ... and survivors began piling corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U.S. troops during
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534. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler stands outside in a field holding a pair of binoculars in the company of Paul Hausser (second from the right) and Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben, Himmler's adjutant at the time.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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535. Clandestine photograph taken by Maria Seidenberger from the window of her family's home of German SS men and soldiers marching away from the Dachau concentration camp, the day before it was liberated.
SS men and soldiers marching away from the Dachau concentration camp, the day before it was liberated ... Maria Seidenberger is the second child of Georg and Katharina Seidenberger. She was born on July 6 ... Maria Seidenberger is the second child of Georg and Katharina Seidenberger. She was born on July 6
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536. A ticket for passage on the SS Sobieski from Cannes to New York, issued to Gina Tabaczynska.
Eugenia Shrut (born Gina Tabaczynska) is the daughter of Naftali and Rozalia (Szczecinska ... Tabaczyn Eugenia Shrut (born Gina Tabaczynska) is the daughter of Naftali and Rozalia (Szczecinska
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537. Prosecution witness Michael Pellis, a former inmate at Dachau, identifies SS Hauptscharfuerher Franz Boettger at the Dachau trial.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Elisabeth and Mary Kvitashvili ... Weiss, the camp commandant from 1942-1943; Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, an SS physician who was brought to ... Dachau to find a method of immunizing people against malaria; and three former prisoners. The trial ... lasted from November 15 to December 13, 1945, with seventy witnesses called for the prosecution and fifty
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538. German civilians finish graves for concentration camp prisoners killed by the SS in a barn outside Gardelegen.
David over each grave and enclosed the site with a white fence. Though the SS troops who participated ... April 4, 1945 between two and three thousand prisoners of the Rottleberode labor camp were boarded onto
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539. Albert Nussbaum, Director of Transmigration for the American Joint Distribution Committee, observes the scene at the port of Lisbon where Jewish refugees wait to board the SS Mouzinho.
Albert Nussbaum (the uncle of donor Milton Koch) is the son of Gustave and Helaine (Kleinberg ... Nussb Albert Nussbaum (the uncle of donor Milton Koch) is the son of Gustave and Helaine (Kleinberg
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540. Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians from Gardelegen dig graves for the bodies of prisoners killed by the SS in a barn just outside the town.
David over each grave and enclosed the site with a white fence. Though the SS troops who participated ... April 4, 1945 between two and three thousand prisoners of the Rottleberode labor camp were boarded onto
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541. Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians from Gardelegen bury the corpses of prisoners killed by the SS in a barn just outside the town.
David over each grave and enclosed the site with a white fence. Though the SS troops who participated ... April 4, 1945 between two and three thousand prisoners of the Rottleberode labor camp were boarded onto
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542. Jewish refugee children sit on the deck of the SS Pennland of the Holland-America line while en route to the U.S.
route to the U.S. Among those pictured are: Peter (far left) and Stephen (center) Kollisch from Vienna. ... route to the U.S.
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543. The bodies of summarily executed SS personnel lie in the foreground behind the crematorium, while behind them the corpses of prisoners are visible.
the soldiers advanced, they found stacks of bodies in other parts of the camp and thousands of ... wall and gunned down by members of the 1st Company. Others were shot in one of the boxcars or beaten
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544. Survivors take down the Nazi eagle that hangs above the entrance to the SS compound in Mauthausen on the day of liberation.
on the day of liberation. The white car belongs to the Red Cross. A Red Cross representative and ... two German SS officers arrived at the camp in this car to surrender Mauthausen to the U.S. Army.
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545. A Deaf Austrian Jewish family on board the "SS Rex," en route from Genoa to New York.
realized that Nazi raids were underway. The SS officers entered their room and had begun to search, when ... Deaf Austrian Jewish family on board the "SS Rex," en route from Genoa to New York. Among those ... was the daughter of Joseph and Mathilde (nee Grunwald) Wiener, and had two older brothers, Rudolph and
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546. Close-up portrait of a partisan with a gun. The original Waffen-SS caption reads, "Einsatz Montenegro.
photographs taken by the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen in Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro ... to have been captioned by the commanding office of the Waffen-SS, and had been in the possession of ... Friedrich Wilhelm Krueger (1894-1945), was a Nazi official and member of the SS and SA. Kruger was ... Friedrich Wilhelm Krueger (1894-1945), was a Nazi official and member of the SS and SA. Kruger was born in
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547. Heinrich Himmler with other Nazi officials. Picutred at the far left is Himmler's adjutnant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Werner Grothmann.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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548. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler pulls items out of a cardboard box at an airfield in the Karelia region of Finland.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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549. A group of Nazi officers stand in front of a building in Solahuette, the SS retreat outside of Auschwitz.
family. Hoecker, who worked as a bank teller in Lubbecke, joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in ... of the WVHA (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) in Berlin, and had never before worked in a camp ... official visits and ceremonies, as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of SS social ... activities. The earliest photos show the June visits first of Lufwaffe General Erich Quade and of SS
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550. SS officer Karl Hoecker lights a candle on a Christmas tree only weeks before the liberation of Auschwitz.
family. Hoecker, who worked as a bank teller in Lubbecke, joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in ... of the WVHA (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) in Berlin, and had never before worked in a camp ... official visits and ceremonies, as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of SS social ... activities. The earliest photos show the June visits first of Lufwaffe General Erich Quade and of SS