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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. Auschwitz.

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust

  2. Auschwitz Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp that the Nazis had .when you where unloaded from the box cars you would through all of your possessions into one big pile. Workers called canada kommandos would sort out everything. Then you would be sorted into two lines. People that could work and people that could not work. If you could not work you where sent to the gas chambers but they told you that you where going to take a shower. If you could work you where sent to the work shops to help the war effort. The poison they used to the people was called Zyklon B.

  3. Auschwitz continued People called sonder kommandos would get the bodies out of the gas chambers. The bodies where then taken to the crematories. Towards the end of the war they where killing so many people that the crematories piled up that they had to start digging mass graves. on January, 27, 1945, soviet forces liberated Auschwitz. Lawton, Clive: Auschwitz, Cambridge Mass., candle wick press, 2002, print.

  4. Auschwitz • Barracks in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. Main entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?MediaId=1051 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?MediaId=1499

  5. THE Gestapo The Gestapo where the German secret state and political police force. The head of the Gestapo was Adolf Eichmann. They imprisoned, tortured and disposed of opponents of Nazism. They also supervised the seizing of property, deportation of Jews and any other infer races. By 1936 the Gestapo merged in to the SS and by the 1940’s they took control of Germany and its territories. After the war very few major figures of the Gestapo where captured and brought to trial. Gestapo, The Holocaust, 1997, print.

  6. The gestapo Headquarters of the Nazi Gestapo (secret state police) and of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). Berlin, Germany. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?MediaId=2031

  7. Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS and later the Gestapo, He appointed Adolf Eichmann to the head of the Gestapo. He was also one of Hitler’s main advisors. Himmler turned the SS in to a powerful and elite army. Hitler gave him control of Poland, minister of the interior and in charge of propaganda. Hitler also made him in charge of the intelligence police and the civil service and court system. Himmler knew the war was going to end so he negotiated with the allies to continue the war. Hitler found out and expelled him. He tried to escape Germany as a soldier and was arrested by British troops and committed suicide on May, 23, 1945. Himmler, Heinrich: The Holocaust, 1997, Print.

  8. Heinrich Himmler • Heinrich Himmler http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1151275

  9. Dr. Josef Mengele Dr. Mengele was known as “The Angel of Death.” He preformed cruel and unusual experiments on the arriving people. Mengele primarily on experiments on infants, young twins, and dwarfs and he was posted at Auschwitz. Before Auschwitz was liberated he fled to Argentina. When the allies found of he was there he then fled to Brazil. Before they could catch him in Brazil he jumped of a cliff and thought to have drowned. Mengele, Josef: Learning about the holocaust, 2001, print.

  10. Dr. Josef Mengele Dr. Josef Mengele http://tinyurl.com/augc3s8 http://tinyurl.com/axccchc

  11. The Nuremberg trials Most of the Nazis where put to death in the trials for being inhuman. FDR and Churchill did not want the Nazis to have a trial, but Stalin did. Hitler shot himself on April, 30, 1945 so he would not be captured. Rudolf Hess a military leader still went to trial even thought he spent the duration of the was in a British prison. When classifying the Nazi war criminals they where ether major or miner. Military and political leaders where major. Minor where civilians and the army. Rice, Earle: The Nuremberg Trials, Sandiego CA, Famous Trials, 1997, print. Trials of was criminals, Learning About the Holocaust, 2001, print.

  12. The Nuremberg trials The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Tuesday, November 20, 1945 - Tuesday, October 01, 1946 http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1053343

  13. The SS The SS was at first Hitler's body guards. Then when he took more power the turned them in to his own army. He appointed Heinrich Himmler to the head of the SS. The uniform was all black and a cap with a death-head emblem. They all so ran the death camps along side the Gestapo. The SS’s motto was “Loyalty is my honor.” When the SS got bigger Heinrich Himmler made an elite unite called the Waffen-SS, and they where the best of the best. SS, learning About the Holocaust, 2001, print.

  14. The ss • SS Troops http://tinyurl.com/b287vpn

  15. The end http://www.wwiivehicles.com/usa/aircraft/bomber/martin-b-26-marauder.asp

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