By January 1945, the Third Reich stood on the verge of military defeat. Most of German East Prussia was already under Soviet occupation. Soviet forces besieged Warsaw, Poland, and Budapest, Hungary, as they prepared to push German forces back toward the interior of the Reich.Continue Reading
On December 13th 1942 Nazi soldiers invaded the county of Zamosc, in Poland, and evicted almost 300 villages. They sent the over 116.000 people who inhabited these lands to camps such as Zwierzyniec, Auschwitz or Majdanek, among others.Continue Reading
In Auschwitz there were up to six prisoner orchestras; men and women (from 1943) forcibly deported from different parts of occupied Europe who...Continue Reading
A glimpse into the lives of the SS at Auschwitz comes from an album of 116 photographs taken between May and December 1944, which is believed to have been owned by Obersturmfuhrer Karl Höcker...Continue Reading
In its pursuit of the “perfection” of the Aryan race, Nazi Germany did not hesitate to persecute and punish homosexuality in the Third Reich...Continue Reading
“David Olère. The One Who Survived Crematorium III”- is a unique monographic exhibition of the works of a former Sonderkommando prisoner in the camp...Continue Reading
In 1956, the Federal Republic of Germany approved the Indemnification Law for the victims of the Nazi regime. Designed to compensate survivors of the Holocaust, it opened the door to other groups persecuted by Hitler. These included republicans exiled from Spain after the Civil War.Continue Reading
In July 1933, a new law was passed that saw the forced sterilisation of 400,000 Germans classed as carrying hereditary diseases.Hitler authorised the so-called T4 programme at the start of the Second World War. Over 70,000 people interned in psychiatric hospitals were transferred to the Hartheim, Bernburg, Brandenburg, Hadamar, Sonnenstein and Graefeneck centres, where they...Continue Reading
Two out of every three Jews living in Europe at the beginning of the 1930s died during Nazi rule and World War II. The most prudent ones left Germany following Hitler’s rise to power, but the immense majority were ensnared and killed in the Nazis’ instruments of repression – ghettoes and concentration/extermination camps.Continue Reading
Ludwig Neumann was a German-Jewish businessman who owned an industrial clothing company, Neumann & Mendel. The factory was founded in 1889 by Emil Neumann and Carl Mendel, and from 1923 Ludwig became the sole owner. From 1 January 1938 German Jews were banned from operating businesses and...Continue Reading
