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751. 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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752. 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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753. 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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754. 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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755. 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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756. 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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757. 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.
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758. Morris Zaidband
returned, the Germans were already beating Jews who didn't show them "respect." One day, when German guards ... came to their house to deport Morris's father, he asked them to wait while he got ready. The guards ... camp in Germany. There, in exchange for a privileged job, he offered a German guard a diamond that he ... pulling a healthy tooth. Luckily, the guard let Morris stay in the laundry without demanding the diamond
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759. Lackenbach (Roma internment and transit camp)
forestry work were very physically strenuous and took place under the close supervision of camp guards ... While conditions varied depending on where prisoners had to work, the guards enforced strict work ... had one further camp commander, Julius Brunner, who had previously served as a guard. He assumed ... guards either came from the criminal police or were deputized policemen drafted from the segment of the
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760. The Syrets Labor Education Camp
), and indigenous collaborators guarded the camp ... by bribing camp guards. These items were often also plundered or stolen ... forms of physical abuse included beatings, as well as attacks by guard dogs ... Camp authorities and guards also killed some prisoners for no apparent reason
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761. How Did I Get from There to Here?
guards would look us over. People who looked too old, too young, or sick were taken to be killed. From ... and died or were shot by the guards. After marching about five or six weeks, we stopped near a ... beaten severely. These Jewish women, like I, were treated by the Nazi guards like worthless insects
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762. Shifting Risks in Burkina Faso
unlikely to happen. Instead, they seemed guardedly optimistic that Burkina Faso would find its way to ... instead. The lieutenant colonel who heads the Presidential Guard soon took to the airwaves to declare ... percent. The uniformity of that guarded optimism is encouraging, and it suggests that our statistical
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763. Democracy Shattered
the energy to walk, so they fell down and the guard would shoot them. We would continue marching. One ... leapt for it and started to fight over the potato. The guard simply raised his rifle and shot one man in ... the face; his jaw just dropped away. This guard grew up in one of the most advanced cultures in Europe
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764. Museum Acquires Sobibor Perpetrator Collection
among the camp’s SS staff, and between the SS and auxiliary guards; and the role of women including ... prisoners, local civilian female servants, German official guests, and auxiliary guards (among them possibly ... group of twenty-two Trawniki auxiliary guards. An album of 116 photographs depicting Niemann’s early SS
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765. Freedom in Holysov
just wooden planks without mattresses. Most guards were members of the Wehrmacht (German armed forces ... English materials for the guards. In turn they gave her some raw potatoes, which helped us as we were ... and pushed the gate opened. No German guard appeared anywhere; they were hiding in their rooms. It was
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766. Collaboration
The Hlinka Guard in Slovakia, the Iron Guard in ... killing Jews throughout eastern and southeastern Europe. Many served as perimeter guards in killing
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767. Sachsenhausen
this number had reached 277. SS guard personnel at Sachsenhausen numbered around 1,400 in 1941, and by ... camp commandant until 1945. The guards of Sachsenhausen in the early years of the camp were men from ... transferred to the SS Death's Head Battalion and deployed as guards.
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768. Treblinka: Key Dates
Prisoners seize weapons from the camp armory, but SS guards in the camp discover the plot before it can be ... and police guards kill many with machine-gun fire. More than 300 prisoners escape, but the SS and ... Treblinka II. The SS guards force the surviving prisoners in the camp to remove all remaining traces
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769. Ghettos in Occupied Poland
Jewish families. Many of the ghettos were enclosed by barbed-wire fences or walls, with entrances guarded ... guarded the area to keep the Jews from escaping on the trolley cars. The passengers from outside the ... wire, begins. The Germans guard the ghetto boundary closely to prevent movement between the ghetto and
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770. Hall of Remembrance
from Deuteronomy on the responsibility of memory: Only guard yourself and guard your soul
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771. Alex Haslam
them to roles as guards and prisoners. And what he observed over a period of just a few days: the ... guards became increasingly brutal, the prisoners became increasingly passive, and the study had to be ... his guards were brutal was because they believed in Zimbardo's leadership. They believed they
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772. Simon Family
-sponsored dances. On Sunday, April 30, 1944, I was scheduled to walk guard duty, a job I didn’t like very ... if I had to walk guard duty the following day, I wanted to go to the dance on Saturday night. I was ... The next day while walking guard duty, I was dreaming about her. I had asked for her telephone number
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773. Tata's Last Word
walls reported what they saw: “Armed German soldiers and Ukrainian guards, people—our people—behind ... “Armed German soldiers and Ukrainian guards, people—our people—behind barbed-wire fences, and chimneys ... him.” “Achtung! Aufstehen!” (“Attention! Rise!”) A band of guards began to shove us into groups
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774. Sitting at the Survivors’ Desk
the embassy. It was more protected than the safe house because it had guards. When he learned that we ... glass house, the guard let me in but he kept my mother out, saying that the place was too crowded ... already. Then my uncle pushed my mother through, moving the guard to the side. Since she was already in
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775. A Three-Year-Old Saves His Mother
guarded by Arrow Cross members in their all-black uniforms who wore armbands featuring a cross where each ... many of the basic staples were almost never available. These guards were young people, 16 and older ... entertaining to the guards. Being young boys, we were fascinated by weapons, not knowing how they were used to