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Apr 4, 2024 · Rudolf I (born May 1, 1218, Limburg-im-Breisgau [Germany]—died July 15, 1291, Speyer) was the first German king of the Habsburg dynasty. A son of Albert IV, Count of Habsburg, Rudolf on the occasion of his father’s death ( c. 1239) inherited lands in upper Alsace, the Aargau, and Breisgau. A partisan of the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperor ...
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Apr 12, 2024 · Rudolf Franz Höss (born November 25, 1900, Baden-Baden, Germany—died April 16, 1947, Auschwitz [Oświęcim], Poland) was a German soldier and Nazi partisan who served as commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex (1940–45) during a period when as many as 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 inmates perished there. After ...
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6 days ago · Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland, Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labor camp. Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died there; 90 percent of them were Jews.
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4 days ago · Investigating the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp built on British soil 13:11. The names Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald are infamous as the scene of atrocities -- concentration camps ...
2 days ago · Footwear from the regime’s concentration camps ended up at the Polish base, and campaigners want them to be salvaged by Kate Connolly in Sztutowo Wed 24 Apr 2024 00.00 EDT Last modified on Wed ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Introduction to the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. The Holocaust was an evolving process that took place throughout Europe between 1933 and 1945. Antisemitism was at the foundation of the Holocaust.
Apr 1, 2024 · Noam Sheizaf. Follow. Apr 1, 2024. Primo Levi began writing "If This Is a Man" in December 1945, immediately after his return to Turin, Italy from Auschwitz, out of what he called, in his preface to the book, an "immediate and violent impulse." The writing of it began with the final chapter, which deals with the 10 days between the departure of ...
