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The Racial Policy of Nazi Germany refers to the policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the Aryan race, and including measures aimed primarily against Jews. ...
Nazi eugenics pertains to Nazi Germanys nazism and race social policies that placed the improvement of the race through eugenics at the centre of their concerns and targeted those humans they identified as Life Unworthy of Life, including but not limited to: criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle...
It has been suggested that Reich Citizenship Law be merged into this article or section. ...
This poster reads: 60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime. ...
Prior to and during World War II Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager or KZ) throughout the territory it controlled. ...
The following is a list of Nazi German concentration camps. ...
German Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods of tolerance and spasms of anti-Semitic violence, culminating in the Holocaust and the near-destruction of the Jewish community in Germany and much of Europe. ...
Pogrom (from Russian: ; from гÑомиÑÑ IPA: - to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious or other, and characterized by destruction of their homes, businesses and religious centers. ...
Dots represent large cities where synagogues were destroyed. ...
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The Jedwabne Pogrom (or Jedwabne Massacre) was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the town of Jedwabne in Poland that occurred during World War II, in July 1941. ...
The old town of Lviv St. ...
The Legionnaires Rebellion and the Bucharest Pogrom occurred in Bucharest, Romania, between the 21st and the 23rd of January, 1941. ...
| | Ghettos: Warsaw · Łódź · Lwów · Kraków · Theresienstadt · Kovno Ghettos in occupied Europe 1939 - 1944. ...
The Ghetto Heroes Memorial The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. In the three years of its existence, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the...
The Åódź Ghetto (historically the Litzmannstadt Ghetto) was the second-largest ghetto (after the Warsaw Ghetto) established for Jews and Roma in Nazi-occupied Poland. ...
The Lwów Ghetto (also called the Lemberg Ghetto, Lviv Ghetto, and Lvov Ghetto) was one of the larger Ghettos established for Jews in Poland by Nazi authorities. ...
Deportation of Jews from the Kraków Ghetto, March 1943 The Jewish ghetto in Kraków (Cracow) was one of the five main ghettos created by the Nazis during their occupation of Poland during World War II. It was a staging point to begin dividing able workers from those who...
Location of the concentration camp in the Czech Republic Gate Work Brings Freedom in the Small Fortress Concentration camp Theresienstadt (often referred to as TerezÃn) was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city TerezÃn (German...
The Kovno Ghetto (also called the Kaunas Ghetto) was a ghetto established by Nazi Germany to hold the Jews of the Lithuanian town of Kovno during the Holocaust. ...
| | Einsatzgruppen: Babi Yar · Rumbula · Paneriai · Odessa A member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. ...
Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Ðабин ÑÑ, Babyn yar; Russian: Ðабий ÑÑ, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located between Frunze and Melnyk Streets between the Kyryliv church and Olena Teliha Street. ...
Rumbula Forest is a pine forest enclave in Riga, Latvia. ...
Paneriai (Polish: , German: ) is a suburb of Vilnius, situated about 10 kilometres away from the city centre. ...
The Odessa Massacre was the extermination of Jews and Communists in Odessa during the autumn of 1941. ...
| | "Final Solution": Wannsee · Aktion Reinhard In a February 26, 1942 letter to German diplomat Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question). ...
The Wannsee Villa, location of the Wannsee Conference, is now a Holocaust museum. ...
Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard, Einsatz Reinhard, Aktion Reinhardt or Einsatz Reinhardt in German) was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the former General Government and rob their possessions. ...
| | Death camps: Auschwitz · Belzec · Chełmno · Majdanek · Treblinka · Sobibór · Jasenovac · Warsaw The extermination camps is a loaded term which is used for the facilities established by Nazi Germany in World War II. Under the T4 euthanasia program the gas was used for the killing of the handicapped. ...
The entrance to Auschwitz I. The now notorious motto over the gate, Arbeit macht frei translates as: Work will set you free. ...
BeÅżec was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for implementing Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust. ...
The CheÅmno extermination camp was a Nazi extermination camp that was situated 70 km from Åódź near a small village called CheÅmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof an der Nehr, in German), in Greater Poland (which was, in 1939, annexed and incorporated into Germany under the name of Reichsgau Wartheland). ...
Majdanek in the winter, 2005 Majdanek is the site of a German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, roughly 2. ...
Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Extermination camps like the one at Treblinka were used in the Holocaust for the systematic genocide of sub-humans by the Nazis. ...
Sobibór was a Nazi German extermination camp that was part of Operation Reinhard, the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor. ...
âJasenovacâ redirects here. ...
Warsaw concentration camp (German: , short KL Warschau) was the German concentration and extermination camp in Warsaw, in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto and in other parts of the city. ...
| | Resistance: Jewish partisans Ghetto uprisings (Warsaw) The Jewish resistance during the Holocaust was the resistance of the Jewish people against Nazi Germany leading up to and through World War II. Due to the careful organization and overwhelming military might of the Nazi German State and its supporters, many Jews were unable to resist the killings. ...
Jewish partisans were groups of irregulars participating in the Jewish resistance movement during World War II against the Nazis and their collaborators. ...
Ghetto Uprising refers to an armed struggle by people incarcerated in German Ghettos during World War II against the plans to resettle all the inhabitants to concentration and death camps. ...
Combatants Nazi Germany {SS, SD, Gestapo, Order Police, Wehrmacht} Collaborators {Blue Police, Jewish Ghetto Police} Jewish resistance (Å»OB, Å»ZW) Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa Gwardia Ludowa) Commanders Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg Jürgen Stroop Mordechai Anielewiczâ , Dawid Apfelbaumâ , PaweÅ Frenkielâ , Icchak Cukierman, Marek Edelman, Zivia Lubetkin, Henryk IwaÅski Strength Official...
| | End of World War II: Death marches · Berihah · Displaced persons The raising of the Red Flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 1945. ...
Dachau concentration-camp inmates on a death march through a German village in April 1945. ...
Berihah (literally escape in Hebrew) was the organized effort to help Jews escape post-Holocaust Europe for the British Mandate of Palestine. ...
Sherit ha-Pletah is a biblical (First Chronicles 4:43) term used by Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust to refer to themselves and the communities they formed following their liberation in the spring of 1945. ...
| | Other victims | | East Slavs · Poles · Serbs · Roma · Homosexuals · Jehovah's Witnesses The victims of the Holocaust were Jews, Serbs, Poles, Russians, Communists, homosexuals, Roma (also known as gypsies), the mentally ill and the physically disabled, intelligentsia and political activists, Jehovahs Witnesses, Roman Catholics, and Protestant clergy, trade unionists, psychiatric patients, some Africans, Asians, enemy nationals especially Spanish refugees from occupied...
Generalplan Ost (GPO) was a Nazi plan to realize Hitlers new order of ethnographical relations in the territories occupied in Eastern Europe during World War II. It was prepared in 1941 and confirmed in 1942. ...
Serbs were heavily persecuted during the Second World War. ...
Gypsy arrivals in the Belzec death camp await instructions The Porajmos (also Porrajmos) literally Devouring, is a term coined by the Roma (Gypsy) people to describe attempts by the Nazi regime to exterminate most of the Roma peoples of Europe during the Holocaust. ...
Gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of several groups targeted by Nazis during the Holocaust. ...
Throughout the history of Jehovahs Witnesses, their history, their beliefs, doctrines and practices have met controversy and opposition from the local governments, communities, or religious groups. ...
| | Responsible parties | | Nazi Germany: Hitler · Eichmann · Heydrich · Himmler · SS · Gestapo · SA Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
Hitler redirects here. ...
Adolf Eichmann, Germany 1940. ...
Reinhard Heydrich as SS-Gruppenführer. ...
(October 7, 1900 â May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ...
The double-Sig Rune SS insignia. ...
The (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ...
The seal of SA The (SA, German for Storm Division, usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP â the German Nazi party. ...
Collaborators The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...
Aftermath: Nuremberg Trials · Denazification The Aftermath of World War II covers a period of history from roughly 1945-1950. ...
The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ...
Denazification (German: Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary and politics of any remnants of the Nazi regime. ...
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| | This box: view • talk • edit | The Kaunas Ghetto (also called the Kovno Ghetto) was a ghetto established by Nazi Germany to hold the Jews of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas during the Holocaust. At its peak, the Ghetto held 30,000 people, most of whom were later sent to concentration camps, extermination camps, or were shot at the Ninth Fort. About 500 Jews escaped on work detail and joined Soviet partisan forces in the surrounding forests. Of the 37,000 Jews in Kaunas, less than 3,000 survived the war. There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. ...
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This is a list of people who helped victims to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, often called rescuers. The list is not exhaustive, concentrating on famous cases, or people who saved the lives of many potential victims. ...
Holocaust resources for main article The Holocaust. ...
Book cover The Destruction of the European Jews is a three-volume work published in 1961 by historian Raul Hilberg. ...
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Functionalism versus intentionalism is a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust as well as most aspects of the Third Reich, such as foreign policy. ...
A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ...
The Establishment is a generalized, mostly negative term used in Western societies to refer to the controlling (elite) structures of those societies. ...
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Kaunas County Municipality Kaunas city municipality Coordinates Number of elderates 11 General Information Capital of Kaunas County Kaunas city municipality Kaunas district municipality Population 361,274 in 2005 (2nd) First mentioned 1361 Granted city rights 1408 Kaunas ( (help· info), approximate English transcription [ËkÉÊ.n...
Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ...
A concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...
Majdanek - crematorium Extermination camp (German Vernichtungslager) was the term applied to a group of camps set up by Nazi Germany during World War II for the express purpose of killing the Jews of Europe, although members of some other groups whom the Nazis wished to exterminate, such as Roma (Gypsies...
Located outside of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, the Ninth Fort was used as a Nazi prison camp, and site of the killing of thousands of Jews. ...
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External links
- US Holocaust Museum on the Kovno Ghetto
- Kovno Ghetto Web Page By Jose Gutstein
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