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Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust
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Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust

The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jewish people by the SS, Gestapo, and other organisations of Nazi Germany and its allies in the years prior to and through the Second World War (1939-45). Innocent men...
Holocaust Survivor Susan Pollack on Josef Mengele | USC Shoah Foundation
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Holocaust Survivor Susan Pollack on Josef Mengele | USC Shoah Foundation

Susan Pollack recalls being selected for life by Dr. Josef Mengele. Pollack was one of 10 Holocaust survivors honored by the Queen of England in 2015. Video testimony from USC...
Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II
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Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II

During World War II (1939-1945), Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler (rule 1933-1945) carried out the Holocaust, a systematic, state-directed genocide that resulted in the murder of approximately six million...
The Holocaust in Ukraine
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The Holocaust in Ukraine - Mass Murder, Memory, and Moral Choices

The Holocaust in Ukraine: Mass Murder, Memory, and Moral Choices Why did Ukraine become one of the central killing fields of the Holocaust? This lecture explores the ideologically driven...
The Holocaust, Genocides, & Mass Murder of WWII: Crash Course
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The Holocaust, Genocides, & Mass Murder of WWII: Crash Course

During World War II, Nazi Germany undertook the imprisonment and summary execution of many of its own citizens, and citizens of the nations they occupied. One of the groups that came under assault...
Adolf Eichmann
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Adolf Eichmann - The Notorious Nazi War Criminal

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a lieutenant-colonel in the Nazi SS, was responsible for organising the transportation of Jewish people and other victims of Nazism to concentration, labour, and death camps...
Why Did Hitler Hate Jewish People?
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Why Did Hitler Hate Jewish People?

The leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) identified Jewish people as enemies of the state, presenting them through relentless propaganda as responsible for Germany's economic and cultural decline. Basing...
Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the head of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) organisation. One of the most powerful individuals in Nazi Germany, Himmler built up the SS from a small paramilitary unit to a vast organisation, which...
Auschwitz
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Auschwitz

Auschwitz was a concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland operated by the Nazi SS from 1940 to 1945. Around 1.1 million people died at the Auschwitz complex from overwork, malnutrition, disease, and in the gas...
Miklós Horthy
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Miklós Horthy

Miklós Horthy (1868-1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who served as regent for the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 until his forced abdication in 1944. During the interwar period and for most of World War II, Horthy played...
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