Living Conditions

The living conditions in German-operated ghettos and camps were at times horrible, but not always so. Contributions listed here paint a differentiating image of this topic, which also explains the horrid scenes the Allies discovered in German camps at war’s end.

Josef Mengele – the Creation of a Myth

May I ask my dear reader whether he or she recognizes any of the following names: Fritz Klein, Heinz Thilo, Bruno Kitt, Erwin von Helmersen, Werner Rohde, Hellmuth Vetter, Horst Schumann, Carl Clauberg, Hans Wilhelm König, Franz Lucas, Alfred Trzebinski, Oskar Dienstbach, Siegfried Schwela, Franz von Bodmann, Kurt Uhlenbroock, Eduard Wirths, Hans Münch, Johann Paul…

Healthcare at Auschwitz

Your browser does not support the video tag, but you can download the video here. The famous Italian Holocaust survivor Primo Levi informed us in his eyewitness account Survival in Auschwitz that a number of sickbays and infirmaries etc. existed in the area of the Auschwitz camp. The present book gives an overview of the…

The “Rosenstrasse Protest” and the “Us-Ism” of the Aryan Spouses

Atlantic Monthly (September 92) has printed an article by Harvard graduate student Nathan Stoltzfus on “Dissent in Nazi Germany.” The article focuses on the “Rosenstrasse Protest.” Rosenstrasse 2-4 was an administrative center of the Jewish community in central Berlin. On 27 February 1943 the German Government decided that their pristine concept for the mass-murder of…

Dr. Mengele’s “Medical Experiments” on Twins in the Birkenau Gypsy Camp

1. The “Crimes” of Dr. Mengele In 1997, Helena Kubica, researcher at the Auschwitz Museum, published a long article entitled “Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau” (“Dr. Mengele and His Crimes in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp”).[1] The author sifted through the numerous documents on Dr. Mengele’s activities at Birkenau preserved in the archives…

Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Alfred Hitchcock’s First Horror Movie

1. Auschwitz-Birkenau as Seen through the Eyes of a Recuperating Trooper I was a tank soldier, a member of a unit consisting of 70 Panther tanks which was pulled out of the Normandy invasion-opposition front and transferred to the Eastern front in mid-June 1944. By countless attacks by day and by night, we broke the…

Punishment for Mistreating SS Camp Prisoners

In this June 4, 1937, internal circular notice, Theodor Eicke, SS General and “Inspector of the Concentration Camps,” announces that the SS does not tolerate mistreatment of concentration camp inmates. In a section headed “Mistreatment of Prisoners,” Eicke announces that an SS Sergeant named Zeidler was being punished because, “in a sadistic mood,” he had…

The “Effektenkammer” in the Camps of NS Germany

“Effektenkammer” in Buchenwald camp in 2004 Every concentration camp of the Third Reich had a large storage building called “Effektenkammer,” but the largest one I have seen that is still standing is in the Buchenwald camp near Weimar. The Effekten­kammer was that building in the camps where the personal belongings of the prisoners were stored…

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