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3 days ago · Jasenovac ( pronounced [jasěnoʋat͡s]) [6] was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
3 days ago · Still, what everyone could agree on was that his film highlighted the forgotten man who was responsible for more Jewish deaths than anyone else in history: Auschwitz concentration camp commander Rudolf Höss, who oversaw the Nazi extermination machine with horrifically brutal efficiency.
2 days ago · Although defense lawyers repeatedly equated the Nuremberg Laws to legislation found in other countries, Nazi concentration camps to Allied detention facilities, and the deportation of Jews to the expulsion of Germans, the judges rejected their arguments.
18 hours ago · Responsibility for the Holocaust is the subject of an ongoing historical debate that has spanned several decades. The debate about the origins of the Holocaust is known as functionalism versus intentionalism. Intentionalists such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Adolf Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people as early as 1918 and ...
3 days ago · In fact Eva was one of only three babies born at Mauthausen concentration camp who survived the Holocaust, and only because on the day she was born, weighing just 3lb, the gas chambers had run...
4 days ago · In both Berlin and Krakow, the students attended a variety of museums, memorials and other sites of remembrance, including but not limited to the Jewish Museum, the Berlin Story Bunker, the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and the grounds of the Plaszow concentration camp.
5 days ago · Looming over the movie is Rudolf Hoss, the Commandant of Auschwitz. A fanatical Nazi who was convicted of murder at the age of 23 (and later pardoned), Hoss joined the SS and worked at Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps before being placed in charge of Auschwitz in 1940.
