#holocaust

#holocaust

Many of the objects dating from 1933 to 1945 up for sale under the title "System of Terror Vol II" contained the names and personal information about the persecuted. "For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless", Christoph Heubner, the executive-vice president of International Auschwitz Committee said in a statement. "They should be displayed in museums or memorial exhibitions and not degraded to mere commodities."

A psychiatrist is tasked with analyzing Hermann Göring and other Nazis as they fight for their lives during the Nuremberg trials. These men orchestrated the deaths of over 6 million Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and political opponents. Did they feel remorse, guilt, or nothing at all? It is such a great concept for a story and plot, but, in Nuremberg, they really blew it.

"I hereby indict the following persons for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity: Hermann Wilhelm Goring. Rudolf Hess. Joachim von Ribbentrop..." Courtroom 600 in Nuremberg's Palace of Justice was filled to capacity as Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson read out a list of names, one after the other. His list was long. The Major War Crimes Trial against 24 high-ranking representatives of the Nazi state began on November 20, 1945, in the southern German city of Nuremberg.

The arrival of US troops at Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945 revealed the horrific scale of the Holocaust, where an estimated six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.

The peculiar result is to make you see how the dreamer of sunflowers and starry nights might have painted the horrors of modern history, if he'd lived to see them.

"Upon opening one of the boxes, we identified material intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler's ideology in Argentina during the Second World War."

"Walter Frankenstein’s story illuminates an ordeal endured by thousands of Jews but sometimes overlooked in the popular understanding of the Holocaust."

The History Channel's campaign uses tattooed numbers from Holocaust survivors to visualize the alarming rise of right-wing extremism and racial hate crimes today.

Rosensaft's goal is for his poems to become tools for spiritual navigation, encouraging students to engage with the Psalms in meaningful ways throughout their lives.

Mr. Cooper, a gifted historical storyteller but not a trained historian, faced significant backlash after controversial comments on The Tucker Carlson Show.