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"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me...By that time there was no one to speak up for anyone."
The Reverend Martin Niemoller, I Didn't Speak
Up
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"With the Jew, there is no coming to terms, but only the hard "either-or"."
Adolf Hitler:
Mein Kampf, 1925, Volume 1, p. 225.
Germany's Timeline What went wrong and when??
Laws to protect the Aryan Breed The Attempt to Improve the German
Aryan Breed
Laws of Citizenship and Race The Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race
Laws to protect German Blood Law for the Protection of German Blood
The National
Socialist Era, 1933-1945: This Web page, maintained by Humanities OnLine
(H-Net) and a resource of the
H-German (German History) e-mail
discussion list, contains links to the following documents, in German and
English translation:
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
(German Historical Museum, Berlin): The German Historical Museum strives
to help the citizens of Germany "gain a clear idea of who they are as Germans
and Europeans, as inhabitants of a region and members of a worldwide
civilization." The Museum's permanent collection includes material on the
Third Reich.
Gedenkstätten
für NS-Opfer in Deutschland (Memorial Museums for Victims of National
Socialism in Germay): Provided in German and English, this Web site is
an overview published by the Typography of Terror Foundation in Germany;
it provides a guide to the memorial museums for the victims of the Nazi regime
in Germany.
Doppelmord
(Double Murder) -- by Dr. Rolf Kornemann: Available in German and
English,
this Web page describes a scholarly paper by Dr. Rolf Kornemann on "the
'Aryanization' of real estate and the removal of Jewish tenants from their
homes as an instrument for the extermination of Jews."
Holocaust
Assets Page and Preliminary Report: Presented by the United States Department
of State.
PBS's
Frontline -- Nazi Gold: This Web site is a companion to the PBS
Frontline special "report on Switzerland's wartime actions as a neutral
nation and its role as banker and financial broker for Nazi Germany."
The
History Place -- Holocaust Timeline: Created and maintained by The History
Place, this timeline summarizes the major events of the Holocaust and is
an effort to be "a complete chronicle of Nazi persecution of the Jews with
over 150 photos and text."
A related presentation at the The History Place Web site is
The
Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Unknown to Dictator of Germany, an attempt
to create a "Complete History in 24 Chapters."
Visitors to The History Place's Web site may also wish to view its
World
War II timeline, which includes Holocaust-related information, such as
the
Nuremburg
Race Laws, , Hitler's infamous
1939
(30 January) Reichstag speech, in which he threatens the Jews of Europe,
and the
Nazi
"euthanasia" program (T-4).
Chamberlain and Hitler After
the 1938 Munich Conference: Maintained by Webcorp, this Web page,
Appeasement and Its Answer, contains two sound clips of speech excerpts
by Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, respectively, after the Munich
conference in September 1938.
Artifacts Salvaged from the Destruction
Buchenwald at Liberation - Photographs
Korczak Chronological Photographs
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Photograph Collection
Collection of Photos From the Warsaw Ghetto
Photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto
Photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
*Images
from
Auschwitz-Birkenau*
*(WARNING:
The above links may contain graphic photographs that are upsetting to the
viewer)
"In respect of the Jewish Question, the Führer has decided to make a clean sweep. He prophesied to the Jews that if they again brought about a world war, they would experience their annihilation in it. That wasn't just a catch-word. The world war is here, and the annihilation of Jewry must be the necessary consequence."
Joseph
Goebbels: Diary entry, December 12, 1941
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: *by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.*"
Adolf Hitler
Important Players in the
Holocaust
ADOLF HITLER
Adolf
Hitler Facts about the man who tried to conquer
FACT: With support from the nationalists, Hitler gained a majority at the last 'democratic' elections held in Germany on 5 March 1933 and with cynical skill he used the whole gamut of persuasion, propaganda, terror and intimidation to secure his hold on power.
Rudolf Hess
Hitler's #3 Man
FACT: On A Mission To England, Hess also displayed signs of mental instability to his British captors and they concluded he was half mad and represented only himself. Churchill, realizing this, and somewhat infuriated by his statements, ordered Hess to be imprisoned for the duration and treated like any high ranking POW.
THE DOCTOR OF DEATH:
"A Doctor"
Josef Mengele:
The Doctor of Death
FACT: Josef Mengele fed his legend by dramatizing murderous policies, such as his drawing a line on the wall of the children's block between 150 and 156 centimeters (about 5 feet or 5 feet 2 inches) from the floor, and sending those whose heads could not reach the line to the gas chamber.
Adolf Eichmann
FACT: The Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942 consolidated Eichmann's position as the 'Jewish specialist' of the RSHA and Heydrich now formally entrusted him with implementing the 'Final Solution'.
Oscar
Schindler
Schindler During
the Second World War
FACT: At the point when his ambitions have been realized and he could walk away from the war a rich man while "his Jews" die in Plazow and Auschwitz, Oscar Schindler desperately spends every penny he has bribing and paying off Nazi officials to protect and save his Jews. Later accounts have revealed that Schindler spent something like 4 million German marks keeping his Jews out of the death camps - an enormous sum of money for those times.
Joseph Goebbels
FACT: On 10 May 1933 he staged the great ritual 'burning of the books' in Berlin, where the works of Jewish, Marxist and other 'subversive' authors were publicly burned in huge bonfires.
Heinrich Himmler
"COMBATTING THE GYPSY NUISANCE"
FACT: In a speech to 100 SS generals, Himmler spoke of the extermination of Jews. His handwritten note uses the euphemism "Judenevakuierung", meaning evacuation of the Jews. However, in sound recordings of the speech, Himmler defined "evacuation" as "extermination."
Eva Braun
FACT: She entered Hitler's household in 1936, but they were married just a few days before their double suicide
Anyone who suffers from one of the following is to be regarded as inheritably diseased and may be surgically sterilized within the meaning of this law:
1. congenital feeble-mindedness 2. schizophrenia 3. manic-depression 4. congenital epilepsy
5. inheritable St. Vitus dance 6. hereditary blindness 7. hereditary deafness 8. inheritable malformations
Law for
the Protection of Hereditary Health: The Attempt to Improve the German
Aryan Breed, July 14, 1933
(The Night of Broken Glass)
Kristallnacht
1938
Kristallnacht
"...I realized once again that the Jewish race is the most dangerous one that inhabits the globe, and that we must show them no mercy and no indulgence. This riffraff must be eliminated and destroyed."
Joseph
Goebbels, 1942
THE
DEATH
CAMPS
Sonderbehandlung
(Special Treatment)
AUSCHWITZ
Auschwitz: A Bulleted Overview
BELZEC
Archaeological Dig Description
Belzec From March 17 to June 1942
BERGEN -
BELSEN
US Holocaust Museum Bergen-Belsen Page
BIRKENAU
Photographs of Birkenau by Alan Jacobs
BUCHENWALD
Buchenwald Memorial
CHELMNO
List of Jewish Communities Liquidated in Chelmno
DACHAU
FLOSSENBURG
Official Site of the Flossenbürg Memorial
GUSEN
MAJDANEK-
MAUTHAUSEN
SOBIBOR
TREBLINKA
Acts of Resistance / Organization of the Revolt
Jewish Communities Murdered in Treblinka
Treblinka Death Camp - Overview
WESTERBORK
Cattle Cars to Camps Hardt Loading them up
An Auschwitz Alphabet Horror from A-Z
Majdanek Virtual Tour
Louisiana Holocaust Survivors Bravery Told
Holocaust - Forgotten Heroes by A. Kimel Who Helped, Who Didn't?
THE CAMPS More Site Information
Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau They way they look now
A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz CYBERTOUR the Horror Factory
St. Maximilian Kolbe Priest gives his life for another
FACT: Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest who died as prisoner 16770 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1941 August 14. When a prisoner escaped from the camp, the Nazis selected 10 others to be killed by starvation in reprisal for the escape. One of the 10 selected to die, Franciszek Gajowniczek, began to cry: My wife! My children! I will never see them again! At this St. Maximilian stepped forward and asked to die in his place. His request was granted ...
World War II Concentration Camps Lots of Details
Holocaust: Cybrary of the Holocaust Historical Data
Illustrations
Photo List of the
CampsVirtual
Auschwitz -- An Exploration of a Death Camp: This Web site offers the
visitor the opportunity to "study each of [Auschwitz's] many 'installations,'"
so that the visitor may get "closer to the concrete, material reality of
Auschwitz and the Nazi Genocide."
KZ Mauthausen-Gusen
Info-Page: Sponsored by the Austrian Broadcast Corporation, this Web
site offers information about the KZ Mauthausen-Gusen I, II and III concentration
camp complex.
Auschwitz
-- Endstation Vernichtung: A cooperative project of the Institute
for Data Processing in Social Economics and the Institute for Social and
Econonic History at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.
Dachau -- Prisoner Badges: Dachau was the
first concentration camp established by the Nazis. Hundreds of prisoners
were subjected to cruel, mutilating, and pointless medical experiments.
FACT: Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz , where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning.
"I Only Gassed Them."
Erich Gnewuch
THE NON-JEWISH VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST
THE GYPSY CHILDREN AND THE HOLOCAUST
Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps
"Forgotten Victims: On the Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
Five million were Polish Catholic citizens
FACT: Over one million children under the age of sixteen died in the Holocaust - plucked from their homes and stripped of their childhoods, they lived and died during the dark years of the Holocaust and were victims of the Nazi regime ...
"Then, stark naked, they had to run down more steps to an underground corridor
that led back up the ramp, where the gas van awaited them."
Nazi policeman Franz Schalling, 1985
OTHER
RESOURCES
A Chronology
of the Holocaust: 1933-1945 From Start to
Finish
Remembering
the Holocaust Many Links Here
PIUS XII A Pope Speaks Out
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Official USA SITE
DENIAL AND DENIERS Those who say "It Never Happened!"
Welcome to the Simon Wiesenthal Center Online GREAT RESOURCE
L'Chaim: A Holocaust Web Project TRIBUTES TO HEROES
Literature of the Holocaust HOME PAGE Writings and Tributes
The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy AFTERMATH
Statistics WHO DIED, WHERE, and HOW MANY
HOLOCAUST Resources LINKS
The Holocaust History Project LITERATURE
Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Museum of Israel GREAT SOURCE!
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: A Helping Hand Catholic Underground
Archive of Materials on Bulgarian Jewry During WW II: This archive contains information about the Jews of Bulgaria during the Holocaust.
Auschwitz -- Endstation Vernichtung: A cooperative project of the Institute for Data Processing.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp -- Calendar of Crime: This Web page, maintained by the Polish government, presents a brief overview of the history of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
"Filming the Holocaust -- A Predicament": This article, from the on-line archives of The New Republic (11 December 1995), is the text of a presentation by Stanley Kauffmann given at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the conference.
The Forgotten Camps: Created and maintained by by Vincent Châtel and Chuck Ferree, this Web site is a history of several small Nazi concentration camps, work camps, police camps, and transit camps.
The Holocaust Page:
Maintained by Ben Austin of Middle Tennessee State University
(MTSU), this Web site provides a wide
variety of information about the Holocaust, including a glossary and chronology
of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Survivor Oral History
Project: Maintained by the University of Michigan at Dearborn, this site
contains samples from transcripts and audio recordings of Holocaust survivor
testimony.
Jews in Hungary:
A resource from Jewish Studies
On-line, this article by Dr. Peter I. Hidas of Dawson College, in Monreal,
Canada, contains much information about the Jews of Hungary, including the
Holocaust and post-war years.
'Korczak
-- Arzt, Schriftsteller, Pädagoge' (Korcak -- Physician, Author,
Schoolmaster): Maintained by This site provides information in German
about Janusz Korczak (1878-1942), a Polish pediatrician, author, and teacher
who ran an orphanage in Warsaw.
Maven -- Holocaust and
Antisemitism: Maven is an on-line Jewish resource with information in
over 190 categories. Its page of links relating to the Holocaust and antisemitism
is quite extensive.
Memoirs
as History -- Women's Memoirs and the Study of Holocaust History: A feature
of the German Internet
Project and written by Dr.
Andreas Lixl-Purcell, Professor of German at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, this document examines women's memoir literature
and the study of the Holocaust: "Women's survivor literature provides us
with different documentary perspectives based on alternative patterns of
experience."
The Nizkor Project -- An Electronic Holocaust
Resource: Nizkor Project is a comprehensive collection
'No olvidemos las
víctimas del Holocausto': This Web site features information about
the Holocaust which is primarily in Spanish (Español) -- and includes
links to other related sites. (Please note that this site makes extensive
use of graphics.)
The Patrin Web Journal
-- Gypsy Culture and History: Created and maintained by the
Patrin, a learning resource and information center for Roma and others
who want to learn more about Romani culture and social issues of today, this
site contains sections on Romani history; culture; traditions; organizations;
rights; the Holocaust
and the Roma; and a glossary.
Roma Home Page: Dedicated
to the work of W. R.
Rishi of Chandigarh, India, this Web site "seeks to provide access to
large portions of [Rishi's] work . . ., as well as to provide links to what
information about the Roma is available elsewhere on the Web. . . ." There
is a section on the
persecution of
the Roma by the Nazis, as well as other information -- including a page of
links to related
sites.
Philip Trauring's
Holocaust Research Page: Maintained by Philip Trauring, a B.A. candidate
(December 1996) at Brandeis University, this Web page offers a collection
of documents relating to the Holocaust, including an annotated bibliography
on the Majdanek extermination camp and Philip Trauring's essay, German
Jewry on the Eve of Destruction.
Ressources documentaires
sur le génocide nazi et sa négation': Maintained by Michel
Fingerhut and concerned volunteers, this site, which is mainly in French,
contains "Documentary Resources on the Nazi Genocide and its Negation."
Selected Lithuanian
and Holocaust Resources: This Web site is "dedicated to the 200,000 Jewish
men, women and children of Lithuania murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian
collaborators. Amongst them were about 250 Jews from the village of Linkuva."
YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research -- Holocaust Resources: "The
YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research is one of the world's preeminent repositories of library and
archival materials on the fate of European Jews during World War II.
Zabludow Memorial Web
Page: This Web site is a memorial to the Jews of Zabludow, Poland (which
is approximately fifteen kilometers from Bialystok). Mr. Bartman's father
was born in Zabludow, as was his father's parents. Many of Mr. Bartman's
relatives who remained in Zabludow were murdered during in the Holocaust.
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"....in spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart."
Anne
Frank
The idea that the Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended is a difficult concept, but this is an important point. The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the "Aryan" ideal
IN
MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST VICTIMS
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