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The introduction to the first part of this volume, "Sachsenhausen - Stammlager" (pp. 17-72), by Hermann Kaienburg, describes the construction and functioning of the camp at Sachsenhausen. In 1937, ca. 50 Jews were imprisoned there, in 1938 - 900, and during the "Kristallnacht" pogrom 6,000. Those who survived were released after several weeks or months. At the end of 1939, ca. 1,300 prisoners were ...

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2001. 405 pages ; 21 cm

"Lange galten Himmlers Dienstkalender der beiden letzten Kriegsjahre als verschollen - bis man sie in einem russischen Archiv in der Nähe von Moskau fand. Die darin erfolgten Eintragungen sind deshalb so brisant, weil dieser Zeitraum den Höhepunkt der deutschen Gräueltaten an den Völkern Europas markiert. Erstmals werden sie nun durch ausgewiesene Experten für die Geschichte des Holocaust und der NS-Diktatur ...

In the Great Terror of 1937 38 more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn t commit. What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrator for the first time. Focusing on Kuntsevo, the Moscow suburb where Stalin had a dacha, Alexander Vatlin shows how Stalinism rewarded local ...

Met literatuuropgave.

Presents the confessions under torture of the political enemies of Pol Pot discovered in a prison code-named S-21 when the Vietnamese took over Phnom Penh in Jan. 1979. These documents are supplemented by interviews with survivors and former workers to bring to life the story of a people consumed in a course of auto-genocide. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232) and index. xiii, 238 ...

A collection of official Nazi documents and of photographs, published to accompany an exhibition on the policies and activities emanating from the main headquarters of the Gestapo and SS in Berlin. Pp. 107-122 deal with the persecution of Jews in Germany, and pp. 124-154 deal with Nazi terror in the occupied countries, especially the extermination of the Jews, with separate sections on Poland and the ...

Met lit. opg. 207 p. ; 20 cm.

Testimony. Typescript, 39 pages compiled in 1990, entitled "Frankel Rubin Ortner Memoirs, From Terror to Triumph: A Family's Story of Survival Through the Holocaust," by Alexander Ortner.

This unique record of action in the Pacific is the personal journal of a young American soldier, Sy Kahn. Written under trying conditions and contrary to military regulations, the diary provided the writer both sanity and sanctuary - a foxhole of the mind - in an often violent, irrational world. A bookish nineteen-year-old who was the youngest soldier in his company, Kahn recorded in almost daily entries ...

Met index. 656 p. : ill., krt. ; 25 cm.

Describes the organization and functions of the sections of the Gestapo concerned with Jewish matters in the Düsseldorf district - i.e. in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Wuppertal, and smaller towns. Most of the officials were policemen who were chosen on the basis of vocational competence rather than political orientation; their methods included intimidation, but hardly ...