Thereafter, attempts were made to escape via the underground sewer system, but eventually the Nazi's caught on. ... The 1000 prisoners who revolted seized weapons and set fire to the camp. 2000 prisoners managed to escape. On October 14, 1943 in the death camp of Sobiborthe prisoners killed eleven Nazi guards. 300 prisoners escaped and fled to the country side. ...
Immediately after Austria's "anschluss" to the German Reich in March 1938, Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuhrer-SS and chief of the German Police) and Oswald Pohl (chief of the SS-Administration Office, later SS-Main Administration Office for Economic Affairs) set off for Mauthausen and Gusen in order to ...
February 1945, over the course of three days nearing the end of the war, 800 British RAF and America USAAF bomber planes off-loaded 3,400 tons of explosives obliterating the people of Dresden. The event known as the Bombing of Dresden has always been named as one of the most controversial incidents ...
A few years after Adolf Hitler had come to power in Germany as the Chancellor in 1933, his Nazi Government started policies that were mainly targeting the German-Jews and others that were seen as the enemies of the Nazi regime. In the next ten years the policies had increasingly grown repressive and...
They Became Desperate Perhaps some of the most vivid images of the Holocaust are the death marches, when tens of thousands of Jews at one time were paraded to the concentration camps in Germany, Poland and Austria. Some of the more notable death marches included the mass march from the Warsaw Ghet...
There were approximately 7000 European Jews and "category A" prisoners that had arrived on Canadian shores in 1940 and found themselves prisoners in Canada, interred in camps with some of the same Nazis they had tried to escape (The Jewish Daily Forward, 2013). ...
This essay will attempt to prove that by the end of 1934 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party had begun a campaign, which could have ultimately turned Germany into a totalitarian state. Hitler became Fuhrer in 1934 and from there he continued his policy of Gleischaltung or co-ordination, which had begun, with the co-ordination of German political parties in 1933. Gleischaltung was the policy of turning Germany into a totalitarian state, where all aspects of life where controlled/manipulated by the Fuhrer. Gleischaltung was in essence: "the elimination of those institution and structures of th...
1.a) Explain how the Nazi Party consolidated its power in Germany in the period 1933-1939. The Nazi Party is now known as the most callously notorious political party of our modern times. Its life spanned only twelve years and three months, which was brief, yet sustained enough for the most savage turmoil the world had ever known. The Nazi Party would have never been born and raised without the single man known as Adolf Hitler, who possessed iron-willed, coldly ruthless, and power-fanatic characteristics that they have adopted. The Nazi party was the very quintessence of Hitler himself. ...
Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible"...
