The massive scope of inhumanity by an authoritarian government should concern us all. The deceitful sign entering Auschwitz, “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work sets you free”), clashes with the constant ...

Heinrich Himmler’s deputy Reinhard Heydrich planned ... Apparently killing by shooting was thought of as crude and uncivilised whereas the death camps and gas chambers were a lot more ...

Heinrich Himmler, supreme chief of the dreaded SS ... I didn't know that left meant death, but I did know it wasn't good," she told the BBC. Image source, Jona Laks Image caption, Jona Laks ...

The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau ... 1940: Auschwitz camp created - On April 27, Schutzstaffel (SS) leader Heinrich Himmler picks a site of barracks in Oswiecim, southern Poland, which ...

In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated ... mid-1944 and 60,000 emaciated prisoners forced onto "Death Marches" to other camps. When the Soviets arrived on ...

In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated before they ... was gradually dismantled from mid-1944 and 60,000 emaciated prisoners forced onto "Death Marches" to other ...

The documents published by the FSB include testimonies, photos, a certificate commemorating a badge earned in the Polish army ...

In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated ... mid-1944 and 60,000 emaciated prisoners forced onto "Death Marches" to other camps. When the Soviets arrived on ...

The Nazis also dispatched mobile death squads called Einsatzgruppen ... The leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich, introduced the gas chambers in 1941, an ...

“We knew we were going to certain death,” he said from his home in Haifa ... 1944 -– one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ahead of their ...