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726. The 69th Infantry Division during World War II
height, Leipzig-Thekla held approximately 1,400 prisoners. On April 18, 1945, the SS guards had ... aflame. Prisoners who attempted to escape the conflagration were shot by the guards or electrocuted on ... the electrified fences. According to the report, the swift advance of the 69th prevented the SS guards ... : a guard of honor composed of survivors of the camp 100 displaced persons bearing flags of
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727. Marcel Lob
dazed, famished, and had no comprehension of what was happening to them. A few days before, SS guards ... ="rightSideFeatureGallery"] In Bergen-Belsen they were abandoned by their guards without food or water until their ... a staggering number of deaths. Refusing to follow the SS guards, prisoner B-13726, my father Marcel ... onto a cot completely exhausted. The SS guards did not enter the Revier for fear of being contaminated
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728. Escape from the Ghetto
by bribing the guard who was taking the workers to and from the ghetto. It was still dark when ... smuggle out my mother, my sister, Irena, and me by bribing the guard who was taking the workers to ... factory through the guarded gate so we hid in the bushes across the street from the fence. Father ... would not come back for me. Crying, I ran after him. A guard heard me cry and came up to us. Father
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729. Nazi Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
markings of various shapes and colors so that guards and camp officers could identify them by category ... Individual Witnesses astounded guards with their refusal to conform to military-type routines like roll call ... to be relatively trustworthy because they refused to escape or physically resist their guards. For ... this reason, Nazi camp officers and guards often used Witnesses as domestic servants. Of the 25
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730. Jasenovac
. The camps were guarded by Croatian political police and personnel of the Ustasa militia, which was the ... guards cruelly tortured, terrorized, and murdered prisoners at will ... several hundred prisoners rose against the camp guards. Many of the prisoners were killed. A few managed ... to escape. The guards murdered most of the surviving prisoners before dismantling the last three
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731. Gardelegen
lines. Greatly outnumbered by the prisoners, the SS guards began recruiting auxiliary forces from the ... local fire department, the air force, the aged home guard, the Hitler Youth, and other organizations to ... forced inside the building. The assembled guards then barricaded the doors and set fire to gasoline ... conflagration by digging under the barn's walls. They were killed by the guards. The next day, the SS and local
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732. Jewish Resistance
. Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers. At ... guards. The Germans and their auxiliaries killed most of the rebels, either during the uprising or later ... Special Detachment (Sonderkommando) mutinied against the SS guards. Nearly 250 died during the fighting ... the SS guards shot another 200 after the mutiny was suppressed. Several days later, the SS identified
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733. Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: The Album
rewarded Auschwitz guards who performed their work at Auschwitz in an exemplary fashion with a trip to ... Johann Antoni and SS man Hans Kartusch from the 3rd Guard Company of Auschwitz II receive eight days ... hospital at the entrance to Birkenau. The festivities included an honor guard and official presentations by ... involved wreath laying, lots of flowers, and a military honor guard. One month later, Soviet troops
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734. Hodonín U Kunštátu (Hodonín bei Kunstadt) (Roma camp)
and they shared some administrative personnel and guards. Like Lety u Písku, the camp in Hodonín u ... surrounded by a wooden fence. Outside the fenced-in area, additional barracks served the camp guards ... administrative functions. The number of guards fluctuated between the minimum of 32 and maximum of 44. All of the ... administrative personnel and guards were Czechs, yet they were subordinated first to the Protectorate Ministry of
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735. Mir
Wisoker Streets. There was no barbed wire fencing or guards surrounding the Mir ghetto.”5 ... height. Only about 4 Jews worked in the Jewish police force that guarded the entrance once the work ... details returned. In fact the guard was generally quite lax, as Hein would hold the Judenrat accountable ... Nevertheless, the guard on him remained lax, and he was able to slip away without great difficulty. One
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736. Ravensbrück: Key Dates
concentration camps. April 1945SS guards force about 20,000 female prisoners, as ... tribunals in the Soviet zone try Ravensbrück camp guards in several different trials; most are sentenced to ... prison. 1947A Polish court finds former Ravensbrück camp guard Maria Mandel
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737. Sachsenhausen: Liberation and Postwar Trials
Liberation SS camp guards began the forced evacuation on ... rations; those who departed later received no food at all. On the march route, SS guards shot prisoners ... up as guards began to flee and prisoners were able to separate from the group. In the two weeks
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738. Looking Danger in the Eye
group also studies building security. They spy, and discover that outside, two police officers guard the ... building at all times. Another officer circles the block to make sure those guards are on watch. So— with ... real guards, and walk right in. For this, they need convincing police uniforms. Willem asks his friend ... 1943. Willem, and several other men suit up in their disguise. In the dark, they approach the guards
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739. Belonging
Truman, with one of his security guards! All three of us were shocked upon seeing each other. The ... security guard probably thought that he needed to adjust the elevator so that when he was escorting the ... took only a moment. The guard asked me to please wait for the elevator to return, but before the doors
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740. A New Era Arrived
guard, who had been living in the United States and working in an automobile factory. Although he died ... because Demjanjuk was a Nazi guard, not just a camp staff member. Still, the prosecutors succeeded in ... along with prison guards, who were actively working in concentration camps. ©2018, Ruth Cohen. The text
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741. The 90th Infantry Division during World War II
16,000 prisoners before the SS guards evacuated the camp on April 20. The SS had forced the prisoners ... atrocities as they advanced farther. Just prior to the camp's liberation the SS guards had forced some 14 ... from exhaustion or starvation or had been killed by the SS guards because they failed to keep up with
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742. Gertrude Boyarski
so the Boyarskis were moved to a guarded building just in front of the ghetto's entrance. On ... . Literally barehanded, they killed the guards and took the station's weapons and ammunition stash. In the ... prove her worth by standing guard alone, for two weeks, a mile from the partisan encampment. “I was
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743. Diagram of the “Gypsy camp” in Hodonín u Kunštátu
-hall Infirmary Offices, prison Living quarters for guard staff ... Economic/Agricultural Building Latrine Well Mess-hall for guard staff ... Pens for guard dogs
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744. Stutthof
-wire fences. The camp staff consisted of SS guards and, after 1943, Ukrainian auxiliaries. Tens ... typhus epidemics that swept the camp in the winter of 1942 and again in 1944. Those whom the SS guards ... brutally by SS guards, thousands died during the march. In late April 1945, the remaining prisoners
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745. Trawniki: Key Dates
including a battalion of Trawniki-trained guards, seal off the Warsaw ghetto, intending to forcibly remove ... after the massacre to Lublin/Majdanek. The Trawniki labor camp is dissolved. Guards (Wachmänner ... and Lublin. The Germans and guards flee as Soviet troops advance. May 31, 1945
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746. SS Police State
SS, which began as a special guard for Adolf Hitler and other party leaders. The black-shirted SS ... concentration camp guards. Eventually overshadowing the Storm Troopers (SA) in importance, the SS became, after ... of the chief of the SS (the elite guard of the Nazi state). March 20, 1933
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747. Börgermoor Camp
150 SS guards.1 Although this camp did not record any murders, mundane activities ... assembly. In what detainee Wolfgang Langhoff called the “night of the long bars,” the guards clubbed ... suicide by advancing upon a guard who shot him in the leg. The SS made Jews hand-clean latrine pits on the ... by guards and civilian foremen. While some dug peat, others pushed wheelbarrows.4 As
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748. Treblinka
area. The living area contained housing for German staff and the guard unit. It also contained ... Warsaw. Under the leadership of German authorities stood a police auxiliary guard unit of between 90 and ... or Ukrainian civilians selected or recruited for this purpose. Members of the guard unit were trained ... guards ordered the victims to disembark in the reception area, which contained the railway siding and
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749. Concentration Camp System: In Depth
administered, and guarded the concentration camps. Subordinated to the IKL, these units came to be renowned for ... ,” “accidental” deaths, and “justified killings” of prisoners who were “trying to escape,” “assaulting a guard ... concentration camp system, including its prisoners and its guards, was not subject to review by any judicial ... concentration camp prisoners in producing for the German war effort, deploying them, still under SS guard, to
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750. Porunca Vremii
Porunca Vremii was one of the leading Iron Guard newspapers in Romania. This number was published ... seventeen days after the Iron Guard coup led by Gen. Ion Antonescu. The article, "Un asn dela Pedepsirea ... by the Iron Guard as revenge for the reprisals (especially the extrajudicial execution of C ... .Z. Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard) against the Iron Guard.