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v. t. e. Stephanie Holomek, a Roma victim of the Holocaust. The Romani Holocaust[ 6 ] was the planned effort by Nazi Germany and its World War II allies and collaborators to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against European Roma and Sinti peoples during the Holocaust era. [ 7 ] Under Adolf Hitler, a supplementary decree to the ...
The Holocaust in Romania. The Holocaust in Romania was the development of the Holocaust in the Kingdom of Romania. Between 380,000 and 400,000 Jews died in Romanian-controlled areas, including Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria. [ 1] Romania ranks first among Holocaust perpetrator countries other than Nazi Germany. [ 2][ 3][ 4]
The National Socialist Party (formally Nationalist-Socialist Party of Romania; Romanian: Partidul Național-Socialist din România, PNSR) [1] or Steel Shield ( Pavăza de Oțel) was a mimetic Nazi political party, active in Romania during the early 1930s. It was led by Colonel Ștefan Tătărescu, the brother of Gheorghe Tătărescu (twice ...
Antisemitism. Antisemitism in Romania manifested in the country's legislation during its early times following Romania 's foundation as a modern state in the mid-19th century. Antisemitism increased considerably in Romania in the late-1930s and the 1940s, culminating with The Holocaust in Romania .
The Kingdom of Romania, under the rule of King Carol II, was initially a neutral country in World War II. However, Fascist political forces, especially the Iron Guard, rose in popularity and power, urging an alliance with Nazi Germany and its allies. As the military fortunes of Romania's two main guarantors of territorial integrity—France and ...
Documents the nationwide march of Hitler Youth to Nuremberg for the Nazi Party Rally. 5 April 1940: Feuertaufe: Baptism by Fire: 90 min: Documentary film: Hans Bertram: Herbert Gernot Hermann Göring Adolf Hitler: Showed to ambassadors from the Scandinavian countries on the eve of Operation Weserübung. Documents the destruction of Polish ...
Josef Mengele. Josef Rudolf Mengele ( [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel ). [ 1] He performed deadly experiments ...
The "wholesale slaughter of Jews" in Romanian-occupied Soviet territories was "a genocide operationally separate from the Nazi Final Solution". It was by far the greatest extermination of Jews by non-German forces. [13] Romania also rejected Nazi designs on its Jews, ultimately declining to deport Romanian Jews to the Belzec concentration camp.