Tag: Holocaust
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Sobibór is finally excavated. Its gruesome history revealed
Archaeologists found the remains of two gas chambers at the site of former nazi extermination camp Sobibor. A gruesome reminder of the crimes committed there. Smaller findings, like pictures, bracelets, notes and weddings rings, give an insight in the horrors that took place in this remote forest, some 71 years ago. Under the code name…
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Former Auschwitz guards will not be prosecuted
Many of the former Auschwitz guards against whom criminal investigations were started, wont be called to justice. The elderly defendants, aged from 88 to 94 years old, are not fit enough for a trial says newsmagazine Der Spiegel sunday. Certainly eleven alleged camp guards who were arrested in April (DisputedPast reported) are now exempt from prosecution. Der Spiegel says it will…
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Hitler’s Jewish neighbor publishes diaries
Edgar Feuchtwanger lived in Munich, Germany, during the rise and heydays of the nazi-regime, from the early 1930’s to the outbreak of the war in 1939. Munich was the beating heart of the nazi-movement and the Feuchtwanger family was Jewish. To make things worse, the family had an infamous neighbour, none other than the Führer…
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The hunt for Germany’s nazi-criminals continues: 6000 suspects await investigation
The leading executive of Germany’s center for nazi-crimes expects that about a dozen former concentration camp thugs are to be arrested. Chief attorney Kurt Schrimm told the Deutsche Presse Agentur (dap) the authorities are working on a list with all the guards at Auschwitz, 6,000 in number. Schrimm heads the center for nazi-crimes and he and 19 employees are on a frantic hunt for the last surviving…
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Three alleged Auschwitz guards arrested in Germany, aged 88-94
It’s a race against time: Nazi hunters try to capture the last living nazi-criminals. The Second World War ended just under 70 years ago, and with the living nazi-criminals over 88 years old, approaching, they have to hurry. On a nation-wide nazi-hunt, German authorities captured three men last Wednesday, aged 88-94. They suspect to the…
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Polish hero Witold Pilecki went to Auschwitz in 1940 – voluntarily
It is hard to imagine how a 39-year old father of two deliberately walked into a razzia of the SS on the 19th of September, 1940. As a Polish army officer he couldn’t expect a gentle treatment, but Witold Pilecki wanted personally to find out want happened to all the Jews who were captured and transported to concentration camps. Although Pilecki expected harsh…
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Dutch Jews heavily taxed after WW2
Dutch Jews who survived the Holocaust and returned to their homes after the Second World War were heavily taxed by the city counsels. This information was revealed as documents of the city counsel of Amsterdam were digitized, says the Dutch newspaper Het Parool. As most of the Dutch Jews were taken from their homes during…