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Jewish: killed during liquidation of Fürstengrube, a sub-camp of Auschwitz: Hans Krása: 1899–1944: Czech (Bohemian) composer Jewish: gas chamber at Auschwitz: Mario Finzi: 1913–1945: Italian: pianist Jewish: intestinal infection at Auschwitz shortly after liberation Leon Jessel: 1871–1942: German: composer Jewish: torture by Gestapo ...
Head of Deutsche Reichsbahn and State Secretary in Reich Ministry of Transport, involved with the mass deportations of German Jews to concentration camps and ghettos, also involved with the deportation of ghetto's residents to extermination camps Died of natural causes Ernst Kaltenbrunner: October 4, 1903: October 16, 1946: 43 years, 12 days
Josef Mengele (1911-1979), Nazi SS officer and physician at the Auschwitz death camp who performed inhumane experiments on the inmates there. Known as the "Angel of Death". Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), German physician, biologist, and eugenicist who introduced the concept of racial hygiene in Germany. He was a member of the Nazi party. [12]
Jewish Nazi-appointed head of the Judenrat while he lived in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland. He was known to abuse his power, such as by molesting young Jewish women within the ghetto. [30] executed by Jewish Resistance for his actions in the Łódź Ghetto; Family was also killed at the camp. Roman Rybarski: July 3, 1887: March 6, 1942: 54 Polish
Six Million Crucifixions: How Christian Teachings About Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust is a 2010 history book by author Gabriel Wilensky.The book examines the role Christian teachings about Jews played in enabling the racial eliminationist antisemitism that gave rise to the Holocaust.
The myths that all Jews are responsible for the death of Christ, or poisoned wells, or killed Christian children to bake matzos, or 'made up' the Holocaust, or plot to control the world, do not succeed each other; rather, the list of anti-Semitic canards gets longer."
Adolf Eichmann – Lived for years in Argentina, captured by Israeli agents in 1960, convicted of high crimes against the Jewish nation and humanity, in Israel, and executed on June 1, 1962. Albert Forster - Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia , he was sentenced to death in Poland in 1948 and hanged in Warsaw on February 28, 1952.
Nazi persecution of the Jews grew steadily worse throughout era of the Third Reich. Hamerow wrote that during the prelude to the Holocaust between Kristallnacht in November 1938 and the 1941 invasion of Soviet Russia, the position of the Jews "deteriorated steadily from disenfranchisement to segregation, ghettoization and sporadic mass murder". [18]