Waffen-SS

not precisely inculpable for the killings, on the account that they recorded the statements that masked the killings as revenue. Oskar Groening was 21 years of age when he was stationed to work at Auschwitz. He was a bank clerk before joining the Waffen-SS, where he got…

Heinrich Himmler became head of the SS in 1929. During this time, the SS were only Hitler's bodyguards. Himmler saw the SS as an opportunity to create an army for the Nazis. With his vision, the SS had more than 52,000 men. Himmler also introduced two key goals for the SS, which were “internal security and guardianship over racial purity” ("Heinrich Himmler-ushmm.org). Himmler also established the Security…

can take place based off of their findings. One era of world history that is still raising questions is the Holocaust. During this time there were many “evils” that took place. The people that embody the evils of this era are the Schutzstafel or SS doctors. One man…

During the Holocaust, millions of Jews and others perished. The SS played an important role in the aid of murdering millions of people during the Holocaust. Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer (leader) of the SS, was responsible for raising the SS to power. By the middle of WWII, the SS was made up by more than 52,000 people and was running concentration camps all around Germany. By the end of World War I, the Allies were the victors and Germany was defeated. To end World War I, the Treaty of…

horrible, that it would take everything to forgive him. Dr. Mengele, an intelligent, though a truly evil Nazi Doctor, infamous for his cruel and unusual experiments; Dr. Josef Mengele was the cruelest Nazi Doctor of the Holocaust. Dr. Josef Mengele was an SS officer and physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Josef Mengele was born on March 6, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany. Mengele was raised in a very wealthy family and was well known in his town. In 1935 he earned a…

Josef Mengele: Life and participation in world war II Starving, neglected, brutalized, and mistreated: these descriptors are just a small number of many that could be used to describe the prisoners made to endure the horrific realities of the Nazi death camps quickly taking over Germany during World War II. The treatment of Prisoners was akin to mice in a lab; they came in infinite supply and due to the scientists and doctors little regard for non-Aryan lives they had zero hope of salvation.…

The Einsatzgruppen murdered an estimated 1.5 million Jews in large-and small-scale operations. Einsatzgruppen was mostly made up of the SS and volunteered German policeman. Among their ranks were both conscripts and volunteers. Each division was comprised of several companies or platoons and contained between 700 and 1,000 men. The Einsatzgruppen divided into four battalion sized groups A,B,C,D.“ Einsatzgruppen came directly to the home communities of Jews and massacred them”(United States…

Rudolf Hoess (Höss) was a Nazi German Lieutenant Colonel and a commandant of Auschwitz. During this time period, the Axis powers were in war with the allied powers in World War Two. This essay will discuss Hoess’s early life and education, his life during WWII, his death, and his identifiers. On the 25th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1901, in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, Germany, Rudolf Hoess was born his father Franz Xaver Hoess and his mother Lina Née Speck.…

Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who had already began to do research on the twin experiments. That same year, Josef joined the Nazi party. By June 1940, he was drafted into the German army and volunteered for the medical service of the Waffen-SS, an armed wing of the Nazi’s SS organization consisting…

During its first several months of operation, Camp Cooke housed a sizable number of hardcore Nazis from Waffen SS units and other formations. Most of these prisoners, and like-minded troublemakers that arrived later in the camp, were transferred to segregated camps for known Nazi sympathizers. For the most part, the POWs at Cooke were soldiers from infantry, armor, and airborne divisions. Among them were men from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps which had surrendered to American,…