Munich the capital of the German state of Bavaria, which is in Southern Germany, was the home of the Nazi movement and the site of the model concentration camp at Dachau.
Jews were living in Munich at the beginning of the thirteenth century, but they were expelled in 1442, and by 1790 there were only 127 Jews living in Munich.
Alexander Pechersky Leader of the Sobibor Revolt Testimony Alexander Pechersky I was born in Kremenchug in 1919, but spent my childhood in Rostov. After I finished my secondary studies I entered a music school. Music and theatre were the most important things in my life. I directed amateur dramatic circles and [...]
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Oskar Schindler “He who saves a single soul , saves the world entire” The Jewish Inscription on Schindler’s ring given to him by the Jews at Brunnlitz. Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler was born on 18 April 1908 in Svitavy, a Moravian industrial town, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian [...]
Heinrich Müller Heinrich Müller Heinrich Müller was Head of the Gestapo during World War Two and Adolf Eichmann’s immediate superior, responsible for implementing the “Final Solution”. Heinrich Müller was born in Munich on 28 April 1901, of Catholic parents. During the Great War he served as a flight leader on the eastern front and was [...]
The destruction of the Jews of Italy Italian soldiers waving white flag of surrender The Italian Government surrendered its forces to the Allies on 8 September 1943, and on the following day General Mark Clark launched Operation Avalanche, the landing of Allied troops on the coast of Italy, near Salerno. On [...]
Dora – Mittelbau/Nordhausen Concentration Camp Dora – Mittelbau also known Dora-Nordhausen was a concentration camp in the Harz Mountains, three miles from Nordhausen, Saxony, in Germany. The Lutherplatz in the town of Nordhausen The Dora-Mittelbau camp was first mentioned on 27 August 1943 as an external unit of the Buchenwald concentration [...]
Der ewige Jude The “Eternal Jew” or the “Wandering Jew” Nazi propaganda art the “Wandering Jew” The concept of the “Wandering Jew” is far older than National Socialism. It derives from a literary and popular legend, about a Jew who mocked or mistreated Jesus while he was on his way to the cross and [...]
The Auschwitz Protocol The Vrba-Wetzler Report [Transcribed from the original O.S.I report of the US Department of Justice & the War Refugee Board Archives] (Photos added to enhance the text) Rudolf Vrba Alfred Wetzler I. AUSCHWITZ AND BIRKENAU ON THE 13TH April, 1942 our group, consisting of 1,000 men, was loaded [...]
