Displaying: 1 25 of 6,492 matches for “SS and the holocaust”
-
1. SS and the Holocaust
During the prewar years, the SS competed with powerful rivals in both the Nazi Party and the ... the community. Later that year, the SS and police steered the violence of
-
2. SS and the Camp System
hands of the camp commandants and these SS Death's-Head Units, which were not part of the police forces ... Germany were settled and somewhat integrated into German society, the SS and police treated them according
-
3. The S.S. Zion
/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/the-ss-zion
, merchant navy, college, assignments at sea, and more schooling—and all the time working toward a ... Airport. My whole family came to see me off—my sister, her husband, and the two boys all excited and -
4. Einsatzgruppen and other SS and Police Units in the Soviet Union
composed primarily of SS and police personnel. The commanders and officers were also members of the ... the deployment of larger units of SS and police personnel in the occupied Soviet Union, these units
-
5. SS and Police
. Higher SS and Police Leaders of the Holocaust ... understanding the relationship between the SS and the police. This unit was the SS intelligence service called ... ). Himmler intended to combine the SS and the German police into a new “state protection corps ... ideology. Together, the SS and police would be responsible for crushing political opposition. They would
-
6. SS and Nazi Policy
SS and Foreign Policy In 1937, the SS made its first ... murdered at the killing centers. SS and Foreign Intelligence ... . SS and Nazi Population Policy During the heightened emergency that ... and, later, in the occupied Soviet Union. As RKFDV, Himmler delegated to SS organizations the final
-
7. SS: Decline, Disintegration, and Trials
at the height of its power and influence in 1942–1944, the SS was not all-powerful inside ... USSR. These officers included SS General Karl Wolff—the Highest SS and Police Leader for ... starvation, exposure, and disease. Moreover, the SS camp staff and guards shot, hanged, or otherwise killed ... “death marches” because of the high mortality rates and the brutality of the SS guards in shooting
-
8. Theresienstadt: SS and Police Structure
responsible for establishing and commanding the camp-ghetto, reported directly to the chief of that office, SS ... installation, Theresienstadt was also under the authority of the Higher SS and Police Leader in Prague, SS ... 1944. SS First Lieutenant Karl Rahm replaced Burger, and remained commandant until the SS abandoned the ... camp on May 5, 1945. The commandant's headquarters employed 28 SS members and/or SS candidate
-
9. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor
’s head rings], were engraved with Himmler's name and were a highly prized award for SS officers. The SS ... community and in promoting education about the Holocaust. In 1963, they founded the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance ... World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Jerusalem and, in 1983, organized the American ... establishment of a national museum. He was a founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and served
-
10. SS dagger and sheath
The dagger and sheath were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Burt ... The dagger and sheath were found by Bert Sherman in a German jeep, March 1944, Devonshire, England.
-
11. [Documents related to passengers on the S.S. Pacific, S.S. Atlantic, S.S. Milos, and S.S. Patria]
from Germany aboard three Greek ships S.S. Pacific, S.S. Atlantic, and S.S. Milos. The ships departed ... French cargo ship previously caught by the British. All the passengers from the S.S. Pacific and S.S ... This grouping contains documentation for individuals who attempted to enter Palestine aboard the S.S
-
12. The SS
policy, and intelligence collection and analysis. The SS controlled the German police forces and the ... concentration camp system. The SS conceived and implemented plans designed to restructure the ethnic ... composition of eastern Europe and the occupied Soviet Union. From 1939, the SS assumed responsibility ... European Jews, which we now refer to as the Holocaust. The SS before the Nazi Seizure of Power
-
13. Collaboration and Complicity during the Holocaust
/information/press/press-releases/collaboration-and-complicity-during-the-holocaust
triggered a wide-ranging debate about complicity in Poland and Hungary during the Holocaust. Although ... research. During World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews as the Germans -
14. The German Military and the Holocaust
Holocaust and other crimes associated with Nazi genocidal policy. This belief is untrue. The German military ... participated in many aspects of the Holocaust: in supporting Hitler, in the use of forced labor, and in the
-
15. Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: The Album
Johann Antoni and SS man Hans Kartusch from the 3rd Guard Company of Auschwitz II receive eight days ... the SS as communications specialists) on July 22, 1944. They arrive at Solahütte and run down a ramp ... prisoners (Jews and non-Jews) arrived on a transport to Auschwitz. The SS selected 21 men and 12 women for ... -draped coffins, and a large group of mourners, including widows and children. The SS funeral service
-
16. Jewish Refugees Aboard the SS Quanza
The SS Quanza left Lisbon on August 9, 1940, bound for ... to Cuba and the United States, and subsequently being returned to
-
17. German Railways and the Holocaust
simulations and role plays about the Holocaust, please see the guideline about ... SS estimated that the "Final Solution"—which was already under way—would ultimately involve 11
-
18. Law, Justice, and the Holocaust
Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist (Nazi) party, carried out a deliberate, calculated attack on ... their goals, the Nazis targeted Jews as the main enemy, killing six million Jewish men, women, and
-
19. Collections Highlight: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS
's owner, indicate that the album almost certainly belonged to and was created by SS-Obersturmführer Karl ... . The photographs depict Höcker with other SS officers in Auschwitz in the summer and fall of 1944 and ... camps to the east, SS officers stationed at Auschwitz enjoyed social functions and formal ceremonies ... Hungarian Jews and the selection process that the SS imposed upon them. In December 2006, a retired
-
20. Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: Frankfurt Trial
SS men had the time and inclination to enjoy themselves. The men in Höcker's photographs do not ... troubling unanswered and perhaps unanswerable questions of the Holocaust. For this reason, his album is such
-
21. Waffen SS; SS volunteers in Denmark, Sweden, Croatia, Hungary; International fascist organizations and SS volunteers
Various film recordings. European Waffen SS major rally of the DNSAP, in Denmark. (05:18:17 ... ). Advertising poster for Dutch SS, Sven Olov Lindholm, leader of the Swedish Nazi party. 1938: Swedish Nazis in
-
22. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia
. During the Holocaust, the Germans and their collaborators killed ... Protectorate Jews. SS and police personnel deported the vast majority to killing sites in the Baltic States and
-
23. World War II and the Holocaust, 1939–1945
/learn/holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide/chapter-4/world-war-ii-and-the-holocaust-1939-1945
occupation, they could pursue racial goals with more radical measures. The German Army, military, SS, and ... With the start of the second World War and a swift succession of German victories, the Nazi regime -
24. The Holocaust in Subcarpathian Rus and Southern Slovakia
. German SS and police units forced the Jews to march from Kolomyja (Kolomyya) to ... German SS and police officials deported them to the Auschwitz-Birkenau
-
25. The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates
SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich ... Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border