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INFORMATION, FACTS AND PICTURES ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST.

THE HOLOCAUST

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PICTURES

HEINRICH HIMMLER

C O N T E N T S

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WHY DID THE HOLOCAUST HAPPEN?IN 1921 ADOLF HITLER BECAME LEADER OF THE NAZI PARTY. THE NAZIS WERE RACISTS AND BELIEVED THAT THEIR ARYAN RACE WAS SUPERIOR TO OTHERS. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE MANY COMPLICATED REASONS THE HOLOCAUST BEGAN THEY ESPECIALLY HATED JEWS, HITLER BLAMED THE DEFEAT OF THE GREAT WAR ON THEM AND IN HIS SPEECHES AND CONVERSATIONS, HE PASSIONATELY STATED HIS BELIEF THAT THE GERMANS WERE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE MIGHTY ARYAN RACE,

EXAMPLE OF AN ARYAN GIRL USED ON A PROPAGANDA POSTER

HE BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE DESTINED TO RULE OTHERS, OTHERS RACES LIKE THE JEWS AND SLAVS WERE TO BE THEIR SERVANTS. HITLER’S ANGER AND HATRED INTENSIFIED BECAUSE HE FELT THAT THE JEWS WERE TAKING AWAY THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGED TO THE ARYANS. AS TIME WENT ON, HITLER’S HATRED EVENTUALLY LED TO HIS BELIEF THAT THEY SHOULD BE KILLED AND THEIR ENTIRE RACE BE WIPED OUT.

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FACTS11 MILLION PEOPLE WERE KILLED DURING THE HOLOCAUST. SIX MILLION OF THESE WERE JEW.

THE NAZIS KILLED APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF ALL JEWS LIVING IN EUROPE.

THE FIRST ACTION AGAINST GERMAN JEWS BY ANNOUNCING A BOYCOTT OF ALL JEWISH-RUN BUSINESSES, SS MEN WOULD STAND OUTSIDE OF THEIR SHOPS AND NOT LET PEOPLE ENTER, ALSO THE STAR OF DAVID WAS PAINTED IN YELLOW ON THE SHOP WINDOWS.

1.1 MILLION PEOPLE WERE KILLED AT AUSCHWITZ AND IS SAID TO BE THE MOST HAUNTED PLACE ON THE PLANET.

THE FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMP WAS DACHAU, WHICH OPENED ON MARCH 20, 1933, NOVEMBER 1938 APPROXIMATELY 10,000 JEWS ARRIVED AFTER HAVING BEEN ARRESTED DURING

IT IS SAID THAT AUSCHWITZ IS THE MOST HAUNTED PLACE IN THE WORLD.

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FACTSMORE THAN 9,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED EACH DAY AT THE HEIGHT OF EXTERMINATIONS AT AUSCHWITZ.

ILSE KOCH WAS A CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD WHO MARRIED KARL-OTTO KOCH [COMMANDANT OF BUCHENWALD AND MAJDANEK] HAD TWO SONS, ONE OF WHICH COMMITTED SUICIDE AFTER THE WAR BECAUSE HE COULD NOT LIVE WITH THE SHAME OF HIS PARENTS' CRIMES.

SOCIAL 'UNDESIRABLES' INCLUDING BEGGARS, THE HOMELESS, ALCOHOLICS AND THE UNEMPLOYED WERE ALSO BE SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

IN POLAND THE JEWISH DEATH TOLL EXCEEDED THREE MILLION - 90 PER CENT OF POLISH JEWS.

During his time in the trenches of WW1 all of Hitler's affections went towards Fuchsl, a white terrier and was devastated when it was stolen.

Before Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the stormtroopers of the SA carried American-made handguns, stamped with Made in the USA’.

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NOTORIOUS NAZISADOLF HITLER

HEINRICH HIMMLER

HITLER WAS THE LEADER OF THE NAZI PARTY, HE WAS BORN IN THE TOWN OF BRAUNQU, AUSTRIA AND THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT HIS FATHER BEAT HIM WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. HE SERVED AS A SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR I, HE WAS ENLISTED IN THE BAVARIAN ARMY. IN OCTOBER OF 1916 HE WAS WOUNDED BY AN ENEMY SHELL AND MOVED TO A BERLIN AREA HOSPITAL. AFTER RECOVERING, AND SERVING FOUR YEARS IN THE SERVICE, HE WAS TEMPORARILY BLINDED BY A MUSTARD GAS ATTACK IN BELGIUM IN OCTOBER 1918. COMMUNIST REVOLTS SHOOK GERMANY WHILE HITLER WAS RECOVERING, SOME JEWS WERE LEADERS OF THESE REVOLUTIONS, THIS WAS PART OF HITLER’S HATRED FOR JEWISH PEOPLE. IN 1921 HITLER BECAME LEADER OF THE NAZI PARTY, HE WROTE A BOOK IN 1923 CALLED MEIN KAMPF (MY STRUGGLE/MY BATTLE), IT IS A MIXTURE OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE TECHNIQUES OF PROPAGANDA.ADOLF HITLER BECAME CHANCELLOR IN JAN 30TH 1933, HE WAS A TALENTED SPEAKER AND THE NAZI PARTY GREW TO HAVING 8.5MILLION MEMBERS WHEN HE CAME INTO POWER. HE PROMISED A BETTER GERMANY, TO MAKE THE PEOPLE PROUD AGAIN AND SOLVE THE DEPRESSION.HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE WITH HIS WIFE OF TWO DAYS. EVA BRAUN, IN APRIL 30, 1945

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HEINRICH HIMMLERREICHSFÜHRER OF THE SCHUTZSTAFFEL, A MILITARY COMMANDER, AND A LEADING MEMBER OF THE NAZI PARTY. HE JOINED THE NAZI PARTY IN 1923 AND THE SS IN 1925. IN 1929, HE WAS APPOINTED REICHSFÜHRER-SS BY HITLER. HIMMLER DEVELOPED THE SS INTO A POWERFUL GROUP WITH ITS OWN MILITARY, AND FOLLOWING HITLER'S ORDERS, SET UP AND CONTROLLED THE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS. HE WORKED ALONGSIDE HITLER AS ARCHITECTS OF WHAT BECAME TO BE THE HOLOCAUST, THE FINAL SOLUTION TO THE ‘JEWISH PROBLEM’. HE MARRIED MARGARETE BODEN IN JULY 1928, THEIR ONLY CHILD, GUDRUN, WAS BORN ON 8 AUGUST 1929. THE COUPLE ALSO FOSTERED GERHARD VON AHE, SON OF AN SS OFFICER WHO HAD DIED BEFORE THE WAR. HIMMLER WAS CLOSE TO HIS FIRST DAUGHTER, GUDRUN, HE NICKNAMED HER PÜPPI (DOLLY) AND CALLED HER EVERY FEW DAYS AND VISITED AS OFTEN AS HE COULD. AS GERMANY'S DEFEAT BECAME IMMINENT, HIMMLER MADE ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE ALLIES. HITLER WAS FURIOUS AND STRIPPED HIMMLER OF ALL HIS OFFICES. HIMMLER TRIED TO ESCAPE UNDER A FALSE IDENTITY BUT WAS CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES. ON 23 MAY 1945 HE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN CUSTODY.

NOTORIOUS NAZIS

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JOSEPH GOEBBLESJOSEPH JOINED THE NAZI PARTY IN 1924 AFTER GOEBBELS ROSE TO POWER IN 1933 ALONG WITH HITLER AND THE NAZI PARTY AND HE WAS APPOINTED PROPAGANDA MINISTER. ONE OF HIS FIRST ACTS WAS THE BURNING OF BOOKS. HE EXERTED TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER THE MEDIA, ARTS AND INFORMATION IN GERMANY. GOEBBELS ORGANIZED ATTACKS ON GERMAN JEWS ON 1 APRIL 1933, COMMENCING WITH THE ONE-DAY BOYCOTT OF JEWISH BUSINESSMEN, DOCTORS AND LAWYERS.  GOEBBELS REMAINED WITH HITLER IN BERLIN TO THE END, AFTER HITLER'S SUICIDE, GOEBBELS SUCCEEDED HIM AS CHANCELLOR. DUE TO HIS DEFORMED RIGHT LEG(THE RESULT EITHER OF CLUB FOOT OR OSTEOMYELITIS) HE WAS REJECTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE IN WWI WHICH HE BITTERLY RESENTED. ALONG WITH HIS WIFE THEY KILLED THEIR SIX CHILDREN, AND THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE ON MAY 1 1945. THE COUPLE'S BODIES WERE BURNED IN A SHELL CRATER, BUT DUE TO THE LACK OF PETROL THE BURNING WAS ONLY PARTLY EFFECTIVE, AND THEIR BODIES WERE EASILY IDENTIFIABLE. THE REMAINS OF THE GOEBBELS FAMILY WERE REPEATEDLY BURIED AND EXHUMED, ALONG WITH THE REMAINS OF HITLER, EVA BRAUN, GENERAL HANS KREBS AND HITLER'S DOGS.

NOTORIOUS NAZIS

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JOSEF MENGELEJOSEF MENGELE A.K.A ‘THE ANGEL OF DEATH’ IS MOSTLY KNOWN FOR HIS EXPERIMENTS WHILST WORKING IN AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FROM MAY 1943 TO AUGUST 1944. HIS ‘EXPERIMENTS’ WERE TO BENEFIT THE ARYAN RACE AND GERMAN SOLDIERS, HIS EXPERIMENTS INCLUDED THE HIGH ALTITUDE EXPERIMENT WHERE HE WOULD PLACE AN INMATE INTO A LOW PRESSURE CHAMBER AND TAKE AWAY THE OXYGEN TO SIMULATE HIGH ALTITUDE OF UPTO 68,000 FEET.HE HAD AN OBSESSION WITH TWINS IN PARTICULAR, THE SS WOULD SHOUT “ZWILLINGE!” AT THE SELECTIONS TO FIND TWINS TO TAKE TO MENGELE SO HE COULD EXAMINE THEM. HE PREFORMED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS ON PRISONERS AND MOSTLY TWINS HOWEVER TO SOME HE WAS A ‘FATHER FIGURE’ THE CHILDREN WOULD OFTEN CALL HIM ‘UNCLE PEPI’ AND HE WOULD GIVE THEM CANDY AND NEW CLOTHES.JOSEF WENT INTO HIDING IN 1945 TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THE NAZI HUNTERS, HE LIVED THE REST OF HIS LIFE UNTIL 1979 IN AXIETY AND FEAR OF BEING CAUGHT ALTHOUGH HE NEVER WAS.

NOTORIOUS NAZIS

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JOSEPH KRAMERA.K.A ‘THE BEAST OF BELSEN’. KRAMER WAS BORN IN MUNICH AND JOINED THE NAZI PARTY IN 1931 AND THE SS IN 1932. HIS SS TRAINING LED HIM INTO WORK AS A PRISON GUARD AND AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, AS A CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD. HE BECAME ASSISTANT TO  RUDOLF HÖß, THE COMMANDANT AT AUSCHWITZ IN 1940 AND LATER THE COMMANDANT OF NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF CONCENTRATION CAMP IN APRIL 1941. KRAMER WAS PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF HAUPTSTURMFÜHRER(CAPTAIN)IN 1942. IN MAY 1944 HE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF THE GAS CHAMBERS IN AUSCHWITZ. HE WAS TO HOLD THAT POSITION UNTIL DECEMBER 1944, WHEN HE WAS TRANSFERRED OUT AND APPOINTED AS COMMANDANT OF BELSEN. ALTHOUGH BERGEN BELSEN HAD NO GAS CHAMBERS, KRAMER'S RULES WERE SO HARSH THAT HE BECAME KNOWN AS THE 'BEAST OF BELSEN'. AS GERMANY COLLAPSED, ADMINISTRATION OF THE CAMP BROKE DOWN, BUT KRAMER REMAINED DEVOTED TO BUREAUCRACY. JOSEF WAS IMPRISONED AT THE HAMELIN JAIL. THE TRIAL LASTED SEVERAL WEEKS FROM SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1945, HE WAS HUNG ON DECEMBER 13, 1945.

NOTORIOUS NAZIS

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IRMA GRESEA.K.A ‘THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST’ WAS EMPLOYED AT RAVENSRBÜCK AND AUSCHWITZ THEN WAS WARDEN OF THE WOMENS SELECTION OF BERGEN BELSEN. HER FATHER, ALFRED GRESE WAS A DAIRY WORKER AND A MEMBER OF THE NAZI PARTY FROM 1937, AND HER MOTHERS NAME WAS BERTA GRESE, SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1936 WHEN IRMA WAS JUST 13 YEARS OLD. AMONG OTHER CASUAL JOBS, IRMA WORKED AS AN ASSISTANT NURSE IN THE SANATORIUM OF THE SS FOR TWO YEARS AND UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED TO FIND AN APPRENTICESHIP AS A NURSE, AFTER WHICH SHE WORKED AS A DAIRY HELPER. IN MARCH 1943, SHE WAS TRANSFERRED AS A FEMALE GUARD TO AUSCHWITZ BY THE END OF THAT YEAR SHE BECAME SENIOR SUPERVISOR, THE SECOND HIGHEST RANKING WOMAN AT THE CAMP SHE WAS IN CHARGE OF AROUND 30,000 JEWISH FEMALE PRISONERS.  IN JANUARY 1945 SHE BRIEFLY RETURNED TO RAVENSBRÜCK BEFORE ENDING HER CAREER AT BERGEN BELSEN WORKING ALONG SIDE JOSEF KRAMER FROM MARCH TO APRIL. ON THURSDAY, 13 DECEMBER 1945, IN HAMELIN JAIL, GRESE WAS LED TO THE GALLOWS TO BE HUNG.

NOTORIOUS NAZIS

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CONFISCATED WEDDING RINGS

AUSCHWITZ CREMATORIA

A PRISONER SHOWING THE NUMBER TATTOOED ON HIS ARM

THE SELECTIONS

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KRYSTYNA TRZESNIEWSKA, A POLISH GIRL TAKEN TO AUSCHWITZ II

ZYKLON B CANS, THE GAS USED TO KILL PRISONERS

ITEMS FOUND IN THE PATHOLOGY BLOCK OF BUCHENWALD

INCLUDING SHRUNKEN HEADS, TATOOED SKIN AND HUMAN ORGANS

A WOMAN HOLDING AN INFANT ABOUT TO BE SHOT BY AN SS

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JOSEPH GOEBBLES SALUTING WITH TWO OF HIS DAUGHTERS, HILDEGARD AND HELGA

HEINRICH HIMMLERJOSEF GOEBBLES

HITLER WITH HILDEGARD GOEBBLES

Hitler with a HITLER WITH HIS GOD-DAUGHTER, EDDA AT HER CHRISTENING

A PROUD SS MEMBER WITH HIS SON

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OVER 1,000 SYNAGOGUES AND BUSINESSES WERE DESTROYED OVER 7,000 JEWISH OR DAMAGED. WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE FORCED TO CLEAN UP THE BROKEN GLASS THAT LITTERED THE STREETS AFTERWARDS. GERMAN OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED THAT THE EVENT WAS A SPONTANEOUS OUTBURST IN RESPONSE TO THE ASSASSINATION OF ERNST VOM RATH, A GERMAN EMBASSY OFFICIAL WHO WAS SHOT ON NOVEMBER 7, 1938 BY HERSCHEL GRYNSZPAN, A 17-YEAR-OLD POLISH JEW. KRISTALLNACHT WAS VERY IMPORTANT IN THE LEAD UP TO THE HOLOCAUST.

KRISTALLNACHTALSO KNOWN AS ‘NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS’ WAS A POGROM AGAINST JEWS THROUGHOUT NAZI GERMANY AND PARTS OF AUSTRIA ON 9–10 NOVEMBER 1938. IT WAS CARRIED OUT BY STORMTROOPERS AND CIVILIANS, THE ATTACKS LEFT THE STREETS COVERED WITH BROKEN GLASS FROM THE WINDOWS OF JEWISH-OWNED STORES, BUILDINGS, AND SYNAGOGUES. AT LEAST 91 JEWS WERE KILLED IN THE ATTACKS, AND 30,000 (MOSTLY MEN) WERE CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO BE INCARCERATED. JEWISH HOMES, HOSPITALS, AND SCHOOLS WERE RANSACKED, AS THE ATTACKERS DESTROYED AND DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS WITH SLEDGEHAMMERS.

FASANENSTRASSE SYNAGOGUEIN BERLIN AFTER KRISTALLNACHT

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CONCENTRATION CAMP LOCATIONS

THIS MAP SHOWS WHERE THE MAJOR CONCENTRATION/DEATH CAMPS ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE.

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CREDITSPICTURES FROM THE VARIOUS WEBSITES SUCH AS TUMBLR, GOOGLE, THIRD REICH DEDICATED FORUMS AND THIRD REICH

DEDICATED WEBSITES.

SOME TEXT IS FROM WIKIPEDIA, THIRD REICH INFORMATION WEBSITES, HISTORY WEBSITES AND FROM MY OWN BRAIN AND

KNOWLEDGE.

CONCENTRATION CAMP LOCATIONS MAP WAS EDITED BY ME TO BE MADE CLEARER THAN THE ORIGINAL.

ENTIRE SLIDE SINGLE-HANDEDLY MADE BY ME.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY HARD WORK AND LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND THE PEOPLE WHO LET AND MADE IT HAPPEN.

SLIDE CREDIT TO MANDY [WAY] PARKINSON


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