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While it operated, it produced commodities vital to the German military forces before and during World War II. After substantial damage from strategic bombing, the firm and its remaining assets were dissolved at the end of the war. [214] As Germany deepened its commitment to World War II, Brabag's plants became vital elements of the war effort.
Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States. St. Martin's Publishing Group. Imlay, Talbot C.; Horn, Martin. The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II. Lund, Joachim (August 1, 2006). Working for the New Order: European Business Under German Domination, 1939–1945. Copenhagen Business School ...
During the Hotel Polski affair, Jewish agents working for the Gestapo-operated Żagiew agent provocateur network helped to spread rumors that Jews could buy foreign passports and other documents, and then as foreign citizens, leave territories occupied by Nazi Germany. Approximately 2,500 Jews fell for this trap, with most subsequently arrested ...
During World War II, some individuals and groups helped Jews and others escape the Holocaust conducted by Nazi Germany.. The support, or at least absence of active opposition, of the local population was essential to Jews attempting to hide but often lacking in Eastern Europe. [1]
Members of the Canadian Royal 22 e Regiment in audience with Pope Pius XII, following the 1944 Liberation of Rome. The papacy of Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) began on 2 March 1939 and continued to 9 October 1958, covering the period of the Second World War and the Holocaust, during which millions of Jews were murdered by Adolf Hitler's Germany. [1]
Hitler's own support of the Haavara Agreement was unclear and varied throughout the 1930s. Initially, Hitler seemed indifferent to the economic details of the plan, but he supported it in the period from September 1937 to 1939. [23] After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 the program was ended. [19]
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the ...
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...