The Death Camps
On December 8, 1941, the gassing of Jews began near the Polish village of Chelmno. Seven Hundred Jews from the small town of Kolo were taken by truck to Chelmno on the Seventh and the following...
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On the 16th December 1941 Hans Frank, the Nazi governor of what remained of Poland, now simply called ‘the General Government’ addressed his party colleagues on the ‘Jewish problem’. He made quite...
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On the 20th January 1942 a group of leading Nazis met at an elegant villa in the prosperous Berlin suburb of Wannsee and finalized the plans for the mass murder of all the Jews in...
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Each January Hitler made a speech at the Berlin Sports Arena to huge crowds. In his speech on January 30, 1942, Hitler gave a rambling review of the war blaming everyone but himself. He saw the...
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A new stage in the industrialization of the ‘Final Solution’ was marked on the 17th March 1942 with the opening of Belzec death camp.http://ww2today.com/17th-...for-business-mass-murder
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The Jews and other deportees sent to Chelmno and Belzec, and soon to Treblinka and Sobibor, were killed on arrival. But at Birkenau, an expansion of the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a "selection"...
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On April 7, 1942, two thousand five hundred Jews were rounded up in the town of Zamosc, Poland and taken to a new camp outside of the village of Sobibor. All but one, Moshe Shklarek, were immediately...
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On the 10th May 1942 teenager Stanislaw Smajzner and his family were marched out of the Jewish ghetto of Opole Lubelskie. The major German action to clear out the Polish ghettos was now in full swing,...
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A new death camp opened in Russia on May 10, 1942, it was located outside Minsk, near the village of Maly Trostenets. Jews and Russian prisoners of war had been forced to build a barracks for six...
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The process for killing the Jews who had been imprisoned in the ghettos of Poland and the westernmost parts of Russia was now developing an industrial scale of organization, with the use of dedicated...
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On July 7, 1942, Heinrich Himmler had a meeting in Berlin with Concentration Camp Inspectorate head, SS General Richard Glueks; the German hospital chief, SS Major General Gebhardt; and Professor Karl...
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It is hard to believe that anyone could commit the crimes that were committed against the Jews. They killed the disabled and the elderly and they operated on people with out putting them to sleep. We...
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