July 07, 2006
A bunch of numbers
“That’s an awfully boring tattoo on your arm. It’s just a bunch of numbers…”
Listen to historic recording of a 1945 BBC broadcast from liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, featuring the singing of "Hatikva" by the surviving prisoners
The Third Reich Silver Flatware Collection of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Göring & Himmler and Other Notables
The Nazi Connection with Tibet
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April 06, 2006
The Wannsee Protocol
"Buchenwald, according to Freud, once the light was let in, would become a soccer field, fat children would learn flower-arranging and solfeggio in the strangling rooms. At Auschwitz the ovens would be converted over to petit fours and wedding cakes, and the V-2 missiles to public housing for the elves."
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Wannsee villa. After the surrender of the German army, the Allied powers began a search for the Nazi documents that they would need as evidence at the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. They found tons of paperwork including secret documents hidden in salt mines and behind walls in the Nazi administration buildings. But the one most important document, the order signed by Hitler which gave the authority for the genocide of the Jews, was never found. Then in 1947, long after the Nuremberg IMT ended, the minutes of a conference held on January 20, 1942 at a villa in Wannsee, a district of Berlin, were found. At this conference, the plans for the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" had been discussed
Arbeit Macht Frei, one of Tom McMahon’s Virtual Painter pieces
Whitwell, TN is a small, rural community of less than two thousand people nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Its citizens are almost exclusively white and Christian. In 1998, the children of Whitwell Middle School took on an inspiring project, Paper Clips
Auschwitz photographer still sees images
Der Fuehrer's Face, originally titled “Donald Duck in Nutziland”
Repost: Jerry Lewis’s The Day the Clown Cried, possibly the worst movie ever made
Wooden Synagogues of Poland, slide show (pdf)
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Many More Unusual Links about the Holocaust Here
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November 29, 2005
Work Makes You Free
Dear Anne: An Italian CG Animated Film Loosely Based on The Diary of Anne Frank. (From ”Twitch”)
Nachlass eines Soldaten - Private and military archive photos of a German officer during WWI
Himmler's Speech at Poznan. On October 4, 1943, Reischsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler gave a speech to a secret meeting of SS officers, in Poznan, Poland. In this speech, he spoke frankly about the ongoing extermination of the Jewish people. This is one of the most chilling documents of the Holocaust
Re-post: Shoah cartoon. (A Greatest Story Ever Told winner)
Aerial Photographs of Auschwitz taken by the Allied Air Forces
Definition of Genocide, per Genocide Convention 1948
The Forgotten Camps. This list is far from complete. It is estimated that the Nazis established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries
A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz/Birkenau
Number of Jews Murdered by Country in Europe
Eichmann Timeline. (From The Trial of Adolf Eichmann)
Nazi Persecution of homosexuals
A Year In Treblinka. An Inmate Who Escaped Tells the Day-To-Day Facts of One Year of His Torturous Experiences
The testimony of Otto Ohlendorf, Einsatzgruppe D. He admitted killing 90,000 Jews, was convicted and hanged by the U.S. Josef Mengele
Amon Goeth, the Commandant of the Plaszow labor camp. (From "German Daggers")
Leni Riefenstahl’s Nuba & Olympia
Truman Announces Germany's surrender, May 8, 1945. "The Nazis Strike", Chapter II of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, summarizes Hitler's plan for world conquest. Both from Internet Archive
Photo above of two children, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto, from Holocaust Encyclopedia. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with Anne Mathewson, who blogs at ”Ample Sanity”, and who provided most of today’s links. (Previous posts here.) Thank you, Anne! If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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September 08, 2005
My Struggle
150 Panoramas of World War 2 Landmarks, a collaborative virtual visit project. (Thanks to photographer Hans Nyberg of Panoramas fame)
Swastika in a German forest and ”I’m Not a Nazi” Swastika Gallery
A Kompanie of a German Army's elite Panzer Grenadier Division Großdeutschland. “Our members strive to accurately portray the life and times of the German soldier in World War II”
Color pictures from World War 2
Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler became the first two people to successfully escape from Auschwitz, after Vrba's two years of imprisonment, in April of 1944. Their Vrba-Wetzler Report reached the governments of the Allies before the end of June, 1944 and alerted political and Jewish leaders for the first time to the true nature of the Nazi death camps. The Vrba-Wetzler Report II attempted to rationally estimate the scale of mass murder at Auschwitz, as well as the methodology. As such, it's one of the most important documents of the 20th century
Listen to the Nazi Propaganda Radio of British turncoat Lord Haw-Haw
In The Future, Everyone Will Be Hitler For Fifteen Minutes. (Godwin's law was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. A message from The American Library Association )
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May 07, 2005
Oath of Buchenwald
The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz and their amazing story of survival
German Photos of the Invasion of Norway during WW2
Nazi approved music. Under the Nazi regime, all music produced had to fit within certain standards defined as "good" German music. Suppression of specific artists and their works was common, yet musicians were permitted limited artistic freedom. The Nazis attempted to create a balance between censorship and creativity in music to appease the German people
Silent Witness: The story of a dress donated to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum by Lola Rein
A Glossary of the Holocaust, from Aktion to Zyklon-B
Banksy’s Lipstick Manifesto. Audio slideshow: The Liberation of Belsen
The Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal Project. A searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that were stolen or could have been stolen by the Nazis
When weeping for religious martyrs leads to the crucifixion of innocents, by Robert Fisk
The Search for Major Plagge, The Nazi Who Saved Jews. The NYT article, German Army Maj. Karl Plagge, an Unlikely Hero of the Holocaust
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March 17, 2005
It's not fascism when we do it
Chronology and Transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials. (From Doug Linder’s exhaustive Famous Trials)
Nazi photos. To deny the influence of Christianity on Hitler and its role in World War II, means that you must ignore history
In taking the Fuehrer Oath, the German Army swears allegiance not to the Republic, not to the flag, not to the constitution, and not even to the office of the head of state, but to Adolf Hitler personally who has now attained absolute power over the German people
The Evolution of Tattooing in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp Complex. (From ”American Digest”)
Aktion Reinhard, the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Poland and other European countries
Ahlem Survivors. These photos were taken by an 84th Infantry soldier, Vernon Tott of Sioux City, Iowa in April 1945. For the past seven years he has been trying to locate as many of the people in the photos as possible. He thinks the only ones still living might be in Israel. As part of a documentary film project, Documentary Institute filmmakers are following Mr. Tott as he tries to locate additional survivors
Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination, 1937-1943
Albert Speer and the architecture of the Third Reich
Planning the architectural design of the new Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem
I didn't know anything about Auschwitz before I was sent there. A visit to Auschwitz
Inexplicable Swastika cookies
“My hobby is collecting Nazi dolls. They are actually called 'action figures.' Right now, I have around 65 of them, plus three big vehicles, two motorcycles and a pair of bicycles.”
Re-post: First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller: “Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestierte.”
From “The American Conservative”, no less: Hunger for Dictatorship by Scott McConnell. War to export democracy may wreck our own
Grab a graphic to link to Grow-a-brain
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December 07, 2004
Christmas in Nazi Germany
Christmas in the Third Reich and 42 Nazi Leadership Portraits. (From ”Barista”)
26 members of the Pitel family of Parczev, Poland, gathered for a family photo in 1938. Josef Pitel moved to Israel shortly after this photo was taken. In 1943 the entire family was murdered in Treblinka. Josef was the only survivor
Juden! Haunting photographs of Polish Jews taken by Nazi soldiers during 1939-1943. (From ”Poland at War”)
Radzilow, once a vibrant Jewish Shtetl
Teutonic offerings from Germania International Specializing in German Military and Historical Collectibles. (Warning: Proud Teutonic music welcomes you to the site)
Israel was shocked recently by images of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock. Too many memories
More Holocaust stamps drawn by children
A retired Italian doctor who invented a fictitious disease which fooled the Nazis during World War II
“Holocaust Dialogue”, disturbing art from Alchemical Wedding
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August 18, 2004
WARNING: Many of the following photos contain disturbing images
Massacres and atrocities of World War 2
Photos of concentration camp orchestras. A photo essay by Philip Greenspun, Dachau Concentration Camp. The Walk to the Gas Chamber. (From Photographs of Concentration Camps). Tour of Majdanek Death Camp.
Until the Last Jew, the Nazis’s uncompromising efforts to murder every Jew in Europe
"In the fall of 1998 I set out to do more research for my book: I spent 155 Hours on Trains, making over 80 Connections through 6 Countries, visiting 39 Concentration Camps and WWII Sites in 25 Days"
Eva Braun Coffee Mug at German WW2 Mugs. Gifts from Museum of Tolerance online store Shop
The official website of the Viktor Frankl Institute. Viktor Frankl was the author of “Man's Search for Meaning” and the founder of existential Logotherapy
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May 27, 2004
November 9, 1938
Unusual chewing-gum trading card from 1938 depicts Viennese Jews being brutally flogged by Nazi Storm Troopers following the Nazi invasion of Austria
Little-known photographs of Anne Frank
On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of pogroms against Germany's Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were destroyed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass")
Photographs of Concentration Camps (From Zachor - Remember). More Color photos of Auschwitz and Birkenau by Alan Jacobs. Also, Majdanek
The Holocaust Kid, Stories By Sonia Pilcer
Many Unusual Holocaust Resources Here
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April 11, 2004
Holocaust Links
Nazi Propaganda - Photographs from a book called The Eternal Jew, published by the Nazi Party's publishing house in 1937.
The Truth and Legend of the Swastika (From “Shitfit”)
"Today in Germany the proper form of grace is 'Thank God and Hitler.'"
"But suppose the Führer dies?" asked the boy.
"Then you just thank God." From Humor in the Holocaust
Wartime artists like Arthur Szyk often exaggerated or distorted the physical features of Axis leaders to induce laughter and ridicule or expose savagery. (From “Fs-brainstorm”)
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March 05, 2004
Holocaust Links.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum. (From ”Plep”).
An animated short about a little kid in the Shoah
The art of political photomontage artist John Heartfield . (From the George Eastman House)
"A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust”.
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January 31, 2004
Grow-a-Brain 2003 Links about the Holocaust
11 year old boy's Awareness Project - 8/3/03
Adolf Hitler Original Watercolors (From "Incoming Signals" ) - 9/9/03
Alan Jacobs's 'Brave new World' and 'Then and Now' (From "Remember" ) - 8/3/03
Anne Frank's unfinished stories (From "Ultimate Insult")
Atomic Bomb - Decision (From "The Ethical Spectacle") - 8/3/03
Buchenwald Today (From "Third Reich in Ruins" ) - 10/15/03
Cutlery - 8/3/03
David Irving, "Revisionist" Historian and his website (From "Nizkor" ) - 8/3/03
Forgotten Holocaust - How Could 5,000,000 Be Killed and Forgotten?
"Garden, ashes" by Danilo Kis - 10/19/03
Human rights treaties - 8/3/03
Leave None to Tell the Story - "Human Rights Watch" report on the Genocide in Rwanda
Images from the battle of Stalingrad 1942-43 (in German)
Life in Shadows about hidden children - 1/15/04
Music of the Holocaust - Songs from the camps
Nazi Loot in Salt Mines (From "Things Magazine" )
Reading the painful story of daily struggles with raids, humiliation & fear, I was trying to recall who does Riverbend's Iraqi diary reminds me. Suddenly, I knew: Another young woman hiding in a closet, waiting to die , Anne Frank. What a terrible analogy... - 9/20/03
Schindler's actual List - 8/25/03
Spielberg' Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Stamps about the Holocaust (From "Sugar-n-spicy" )
Testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies - 8/23/03
There's a lot of information about Adolf Hitler . Here are his artworks and Religious Views . The psychology and development of Adolph Hitler Schicklgruber - 11/17/03
"The Wave" , about a classroom experiment in 1967-Palo Alto that tried to explain how young Germans fell under the spell of Adolf Hitler in the 30's, and how it went terribly wrong. A true story. (From "Consumptive" ) - 8/4/03
Views from the Japanese American Internment camps
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