Camps

The German concentration camp system in general. In its sub-categories you can find contributions focusing on certain camps.

  • The General in the Ice Block

    The following passage, headed “East European Monuments in Austria,” has been taken from pp. 20 and 21 of the 1/2002 edition of the International Municipal Forum Graz (Internationales Städteforum Graz): “Another type of East European commemorative plaques is that at locations of former concentrations camps set up by the Third Reich. In the former Mauthausen…

  • From the Records of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, Part 4

    In late 1958 and early 1959, public prosecutor Weber of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Stuttgart, Germany, received a large number of witness statements, mainly consisting of accusations against Wilhelm Boger, who was already in custody at that time for crimes allegedly committed by him in the former concentration camp at Auschwitz.[1] Some of these…

  • The Dachau Horror Tale Exposed

    From the book Einer aus dem Dunkel (One out of the dark), which describes the work of the representative of the International Red Cross (IRC) Louis Haeflinger during the liberation of the concentration camp Mauthausen in May 1945 (how does one 'liberate' a camp, whose guards were already pulled out?), the following can be found…

  • The Four Million Figure of Auschwitz

    Although scientifically untenable, it passed for a long time, in public thought, as an irrevocable truth that four million prisoners perished in the concentration camp Auschwitz.[1] When Fritjof Meyer, a leading editor of Germany’s biggest news magazine Der Spiegel reduced the death toll of Auschwitz to a new record low of just over 500,000 victims…

  • Nazi Shrunken Heads

      A person's high regard for the Nuremberg Trial tends to be taken down a peg or two upon learning that the American prosecution team offered a shrunken head into evidence, blaming the Nazis for what obviously came from a South American rain forest tribe many years prior. Toward the end or World War II,…

  • Genocide by Shovel and Sewing Machine

    Michael Thad Allen, The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor and the Concentration Camps, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2002, 377 pp., hardcover, $39.95. Michael Thad Allen is assistant professor of modern German history and the history of technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Despite its burlesque title,…

  • Revisionist Notebook

    Boneheads at Auschwitz Museum Admit to Faking “Original State” of Auschwitz Gas Chamber. For the best part of half a century the official guides who work at the Auschwitz Museum have told visitors from around the world that the “gas chamber” at Auschwitz I is in its “original state.” That's the one everyone visits. No…

  • From the Records of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, Part 3

    1. From Single Prosecution to Giant Trial As the first two parts of this series reported,[1] the judicial investigations concerning crimes committed in concentration camp Auschwitz were initiated in early 1958 due to the accusation by Adolf Rögner, who was at that time in prison. Stuttgart prosecutor Weber had several times described Rögner as a…

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