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List of Jewish populations by country used at the Wannsee Conference attended by Nazi Party and government officials in January 1942 In preparation for the conference,…
List of Jewish populations by country used at the Wannsee Conference attended by Nazi Party and government officials in January 1942 In preparation for the conference,…
The most quickly felt impact of German occupation was general shortage. All products of value were seized by the Germans, and French citizens received ration cards…
This is Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker and nurse who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She entered the ghetto using a…
Assuming that all of their tanks were operational (unlikely) a German Heavy Tank Battalion in WWII had 45 tanks, with an additional 8–11 SPAAGs, 5 Recovery…
(Force confrontation: German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945.) The process of denazification and the trials of various war criminals in Germany was enormous.…
We’ve been traveling for twenty-four hours. Where, only God knows. We’re all starting to get nervous. People were saying all sorts of things; listen to them…
French female collaborator punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944 Throughout France, from 1943 to the beginning of 1946, about 20,000 women…
4 Barreled .22cal Nazi Belt Buckle Gun The Marquis Belt Buckle pistol, also known informally as the Power Pelvis Gun, was conceived by Louis Marquis while…
Amon Leopold Goeth, camp commander of the Plaszow concentration camp from February 1943 until September 1944. In the photograph, he can be seen standing on his…
Felix Landau was a member of the feared German SS. For much of the war he belonged to an Einsatzkommando, a mobile death squad charged with…