Heinrich Himmler

Six hundred prisoners were left at the camp and almost all of them committed suicide by jumping into the electric fences to avoid punishment from the guards (USHMM). Heinrich Himmler ordered the camp be shut down shortly after this uprising (Bulow). After Sobibor was liberated and every prisoner had either escaped or been executed, the camp was torn down and trees were planted over the entire area to hide the horrors that…

In the June of 1944, Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of Lodz Ghetto (F 3). Nobody can stay in Lodz Ghetto, so the Jews had to be deported. The first group of deportees left on June 23, and they were headed to Chelmno Death Camp (F 3). Some more groups then followed. The…

The official treatment of homosexuality in the Nazi Germany in 1933-1945 Introduction The period of the Nazis rule in Germany (1933-1945) is an extremely important period in the world history. Coming to power, Adolf Hitler and his supporters created the political system based on ideology of the purity of so-called “Aryan” race – in other words, German race. This ideology was characterized by absolute intolerance towards other nations and cultures. The Nazi idea of racial cleanliness presumed…

Essay Question: Was Hitler’s totalitarian rule one of great achievement or one of great depression and force. Ever since the treaty of Versailles on the 28 June 1919, Germany was left in a state of humiliation and despair with its society wanting of a dictator to bring them back to their former Glory. Adolf Hitler was the answer they were looking for and with Germany’s government struggling along with the great depression the people were eager for anything. But Hitler’s vision of the future of…

Groups Other Than Jewish People Thesis: Many groups of people other than Jews were affected by the Holocaust. I. Holocaust background A. What is the Holocaust? 1. The word Holocaust literally means sacrifice by fire. Today, it refers to the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime, led by Adolf Hitler (Introduction to the Holocaust). What isn’t as widely known is the fact that in addition to these six million Jewish people, another five million…

January 30, 1933, the year Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. It is also the start of a period of time that would be later known as the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was a very strong-minded individual, he liked when things went his way. Germany during this time was a very racial country, people judged others strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The National Socialist Party, also known as the Nazis, planned to eradicate the Jewish community. This plan…

In his 1945 biennial report to the U.S. Secretary of War, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall inscribed, “In good conscience this Nation can take little credit for its part in staving off disaster in those critical days. It is certain that the refusal of the […] Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization” (107). The resolve of the Russian people was tenacious and unequivocal; undeterred by the callousness, destructiveness…

minimal. But what would be the purpose? The role extermination camps played in the Holocaust had virtually come to a close by this time. All camps except Auschwitz-Birkenau had been closed by 1944, and Auschwitz-Birkenau was ordered by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler to cease gassing and begin clean-up operations in light of the approaching Red Army in 1944. But not even this stopped the extermination, as the Germans simply switched from gassing to starvation, exhaustion, death marches and mass…

It was the the first regular camp which was made by the Nazi party. Heinrich Himmler call it the first camp for political prisoners. This camp was placed near an abandoned factory northeast of Dachau. It was also about ten miles northwest of Munich. When the camp first started out it was filled with about 4,800 prisoners. When…

Millions of families who had no hope to survive...mothers and fathers who went through cruelty and pain every single day...children who cried nonstop and missed the warmth of their parents’ embrace. The Holocaust was an event millions of people would like to forget, or wish to had never lived through. Just the thought of the large number of unfortunate Jews who died, reminds everyone how lucky every survivor is. Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany and the ruler of the Nazi’s, was the main…