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Over 200,000 Nazis are estimated to have been perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes. Of these, roughly 140,000 cases were brought between 1945 and 2005. According to professor Mary Fulbrook, only 6,656 of them were ever convicted. [2] It remains unknown how many or if any legitimate Nazi fugitives remain today.
The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler's defeat in 1945.
About 245,000 Holocaust survivors are still living, a recent demographics analysis showed, nearly 80 years after Nazi efforts to systematically exterminate Jews and other "undesirables."
Survivors of the Holocaust include those persecuted civilians who were still alive in the concentration camps when they were liberated at the end of the war, or those who had either survived as partisans or had been hidden with the assistance of non-Jews, or had escaped to territories beyond the control of the Nazis before the Final Solution ...
Alive 86 Jewish Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Nazi Holocaust [48] Helen Lewis: June 22, 1916: December 31, 2009: 93 Jewish May 1944 – January 1945 Dancer who trained in Prague. Left Auschwitz on a forced march to Stutthof concentration camp in January 1945. [49] Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz: November 5, 1923: 101 Jewish Author
Originally the second-highest-ranked member of the Nazi Party and Hitler's designated successor, he fell out of favor with Hitler in April 1945. Highest ranking Nazi official to be tried at Nuremberg. [18] Died by suicide the night before his scheduled execution. [avalon 7] Rudolf Hess: G: G: I: I Life imprisonment
Many on the lists below were of Jewish and Polish origin, although Soviet POWs, Jehovah's Witnesses, Serbs, Catholics, Roma and dissidents were also murdered. This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, were murdered by the Nazi regime.
Here are the nine worst years to be alive in human history. pxhidalgo / iStock. 1. A.D. 536 – Volcanic Winter ... As the war neared its end, the Nazis intensified their extermination efforts ...