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Parent topics
- Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies [e]
- Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard [e]
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
Subtopics
Facilities
- Dachau Concentration Camp [r]: A Nazi death camp in which around 40,000 inmates died (out of 200,000 prisoners in all), located about 10 miles northeast of Munich. [e]
- Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp [r]: Third Nazi concentration camp, established in 1936, collecting prisoners, at first primarily political, from the Berlin area; located near Oranienburg, north of Berlin [e]
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. [e]
- Auschwitz I main camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp [r]: An subcamp of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, also called Auschwitz II; principally for killing with Zyklon B but also for Nazi medical experiments [e]
- Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp [r]: A spinoff of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, also known as Auschwitz III, built primarily to provide slave labor to nearby I.G. Farben and other factories [e]
Staff
- Eduard Wirths [r]: (1909-1945) Chief Medical Officer of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp (September 1942-January 1945); described by Robert Jay Lifton as conscientious, but also was the local supervisor of Josef Mengele and others; committed suicide shortly after surrender [e]
- Josef Mengele [r]: (1911-1979) A Nazi SS Hauptsturmfuhrer and physician at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, involved in direct killings and nonconsensual medical experiments on humans. [e]
- Maximilian Grabner [r]: SS-Untersturmfuehrer and Gestapo officer; First Chief of the Political Section at Auschwitz Concentration Camp [e]
- Theodor Fontane [r]: A popular, late 19th-century German-language novelist whose realistic works are still widely read, sometimes in English translation. [e]
- Hitler Youth [r]: The male youth organisation of the German Nazi Party during the years of the Third Reich. [e]
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
- Josef Mengele [r]: (1911-1979) A Nazi SS Hauptsturmfuhrer and physician at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, involved in direct killings and nonconsensual medical experiments on humans. [e]