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Arthur Greiser
Greiser speaking in Posen
Jews forced to sort confiscated goods
Letter regarding the "special treatment" of Jews  (English** translation)
Greiser personnel file
SS men stand over murdered Jews in Chelmno
The Wartebrucken Gaststatte
Greiser publicly hanged
Fort Winiary where Greiser was executed
Arthur Nebe
Round up of Jews at Minsk
Roland Freisler presiding over the "Peoples Court"
Execution site at Ploetzensee prison
Rudolf Höss
Höss appointment order as Commandant of Auschwitz
Hungarian Jews arrive at Birkenau
Nuremberg Affidavit
Auschwitz after liberation (burying the dead)
Höss extradition request
Höss in captivity
Confession written in English & signed by Höss
Höss (second from right) with Himmler at Buna
The Buna Works
Plan for Birkenau expansion
Open air burning of bodies
Pseudo Showers at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Zyklon-B canniste
Experiments in Block 10
Höss meets the executioner
Just rewards
Theodor Eicke
Ernst Röhm
The gates at Dachau
Prisoners arrive at Dachau
Prisoner Art from Dachau
Eicke on inspection
Eicke's Death notice "Lemberger Zeitung" 9 March 1943
Eicke's legacy "Death at Dachau"
Ante Pavelic Head of the Independent State of Croatia
Hitler greets Pavelic at their first meeting
Drawing of the Jasenovac camp
Prisoners forced to labor at the  brick factory
Ustasha order for a Jew Samuel Hirschenhauser to report to Jasenovac
Gypsies marched to Jasenovac escorted by Ustaša guards
Guard tower at Jasenovac
Jasenovac prisoner being beheaded with a saw
Witness drawing of the sboskek wrist knife used to quickly dispatch  prisoners at Jasenovac
Mutilated body of a man tortured and killed at Jasenovac
The gate at Stara Gradiska
An emaciated child at Stara Gradiska
Bodies of victims murdered at Jasenovac floating in the Sava river
http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/spring3/people2.htm
German
Reich Minister of Propaganda
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
oratory
anti-Semitism
Kristallnacht
German Jews
Final Solution
the Holocaust
Ph.D.
Heidelberg University
doctoral thesis
Nazi Party
occupation of the Ruhr
Gauleiter
Berlin
socialist
communist
SA
burning of books
pogrom
synagogues
Jud Suss
propaganda
World War II
Axis
total war
Magda
six young children
Rheydt
Mönchengladbach
Ruhr
Max W. Kimmich
Gymnasium
Abitur
club foot
osteomyelitis
William L. Shirer
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
World War I
boarding school
Kerkrade
Netherlands
Bonn
Würzburg
Freiburg
Heidelberg
Wilhelm von Schütz
Friedrich Gundolf
Max Freiherr von Waldberg
Michael
verse
Magda Quandt
six children
his diaries
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oswald Spengler
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
anti-Semitism
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
extreme right
Munich
nationalist
Bavaria
Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley
Kurt Eisner
anti-intellectual
Joachim Fest
bourgeois
Third Reich
French occupation of the Ruhr
Beer Hall Putsch
Gregor Strasser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0821-502,_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg
Theodor Vahlen
Pomerania
Rhineland
Rudolf Hess
Julius Streicher
Hermann Esser
capitalists
[20]
Mein Kampf
meeting at Bamberg
Franconia
reactionary
Soviet Union
genius
free will
Social Democrats
Communists
S.A.
the Devil
Horst Wessel
Der Angriff
Hermann Müller
Carl Severing
Bernhard Weiß
Social Democrat
rhetorical
racism
xenophobia
class envy
psychological
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-2406-01,_Berlin-Lustgarten,_Rede_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg
Lausanne Conference
Reichstag
Reichsmarks
immunity from prosecution
Great Depression
Otto
working class
lower middle class
middle class
upper middle classes
Völkischer Beobachter
revolutionary
Paul von Hindenburg
conservative
Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Wilhelmstrasse
Reich Chancellery
trade union
Opernplatz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S34639,_Joseph_Goebbels_und_Leni_Riefenstahl_crop.jpg
Leni Riefenstahl
hegemonic
abstract art
atonal music
Richard Strauss
mass media
concentration camp
non-Jewish
censorship
bribe
subsidies
opera
symphony
Richard Wagner
modernism
traditionalist
Paul Hindemith
UFA
Babelsberg
casting couch
cheap radios
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Robert Brasillach
Hans Carossa
Giovanni Papini
citation needed
Hermann Göring
Four Year Plan
Heinrich Himmler
SS
police
Olympic Games
ghetto
Herschel Grynszpan
Ernst vom Rath
appeasement
Göring
Czech
Lída Baarová
Hitler Youth
Artur Axmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bogensee_25.jpg
Robert Ley
Max Amann
Schwanenwerder
Wandlitz
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Martin Bormann
Berghof
Sudetenland crisis
Sudeten Germans
Danzig
Luftwaffe
Albert Speer
Battle of Stalingrad
Hans Lammers
Wilhelm Keitel
OKW
Erhard Milch
Stalingrad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J05235,_Berlin,_Gro%C3%9Fkundgebung_im_Sportpalast.jpg
Total War Speech
Sports Palace
Wehrmacht
Eastern front
Bolshevism
German people
Axis Powers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-N0827-318,_KZ_Auschwitz,_Ankunft_ungarischer_Juden.jpg
Austrian
Reinhard Heydrich
?ód? ghetto
a meeting of Gauleiters and other senior Nazis
Wannsee Conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J31305,_Auszeichnung_des_Hitlerjungen_Willi_H%C3%BCbner.jpg
Battle for Berlin
Soviet
Allies
"total war" speech
Gottbegnadeten list
Arno Breker
Johannes Heesters
Aryan
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Kursk
Belarus
Plenipotentiary
Reichsführer SS
Obergruppenführer
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
Gruppenführer
Heinrich Müller
July 20 plot
Wilfred von Oven
Otto Ernst Remer
Fritz Sauckel
Romanian
Balkans
Me 262
Type XXI U-boat
V-2 rocket
apocalyptic
Oder
Rhine
National Redoubt
Army Group Vistula
United States
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
battle for Berlin
Vorbunker
Führerbunker
Hans-Erich Voss
his last will and testament
Karl Dönitz
Flensburg
Hans Krebs
white flag
Vasily Chuikov
Soviet 8th Guards Army
plutocracy
[94]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1978-086-03,_Joseph_Goebbels_mit_Familie.jpg
Harald Quandt
Helmut Kunz
his six children
morphine
cyanide
Michael Musmanno
Günther Schwägermann
Downfall
Hans Krebs
SMERSH
Yuri Andropov
Elbe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Speer_Neurenberg.JPG
Führer
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
Fritz Todt
Mannheim
Baden
Germany
London
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Albert Speer
Hilde Schramm
Margret Nissen
Alma mater
Technical University of Berlin
Technical University of Munich
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Speer_Signature.svg
Third Reich
Nuremberg trials
political and governmental career
Reich Chancellery
Zeppelinfeld
Nuremberg
rallies
reconstruct Berlin
Allied
bombing
forced labor
Spandau Prison
Inside the Third Reich
Spandau: The Secret Diaries
SS
Heidelberg
Henry T. King
rugby football
mathematician
University of Karlsruhe
hyperinflation
Heinrich Tessenow
Rudolf Wolters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146II-277,_Albert_Speer.jpg
brown uniform
Joseph Goebbels
the Party's motorist association
Wannsee
[19]
West End of Berlin
Karl Hanke
elections
East Prussia
took office
his Ministry's
Wilhelmplatz
Schützenfest
State Secretary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-V00555-3,_Obersalzberg,_Albert_Speer,_Adolf_Hitler.jpg
Hitler
Nürnberg Nazi Party rally
Chancellor
Paul Troost
Nazi architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1982-1130-502,_N%C3%BCrnberg,_Reichsparteitag,_Lichtdom.jpg
Cathedral of light
Zeppelintribune
Nürnberg
parade grounds
Triumph of the Will
tribune
Pergamon Altar
Anatolia
anti-aircraft
searchlights
cathedral of light
Sir Neville Henderson
German Stadium
ruin value
ancient Greek
Roman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La_Tour_Eiffel_en_1937_contrast.png
Night of the Long Knives
Vice-Chancellor
Franz von Papen
Herbert von Bose
Werner March
Olympic Stadium
1936 Summer Olympics
modern
1937 international exposition in Paris
Soviet
two colossal figures
Baldur von Schirach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1983-018-03A,_%22Germania%22,_Modell_%22Gro%C3%9Fe_Halle%22.jpg
Volkshalle
General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital
had little effective power
Arc de Triomphe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-K1216-501,_Berlin,_Neue_Reichskanzlei,_Marmorgalerie.jpg
Hall of Mirrors
Palace of Versailles
Golden Party Badge
Battle of Berlin
war memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hitler_in_Paris_1940.jpg
German invasion of Poland
subsequent war
Gitta Sereny
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
eastern headquarters
Rastenburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H29758,_Albert_Speer_im_Flugzeug.jpg
Gauleiters
Mittelwerk
Dora camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J15733,_Waffenvorf%C3%BChrung,_E._Milch,_A._Speer.jpg
Allies
strategic bombing campaign
tanks
Kriegsmarine
submarines
Karl Gebhardt
Karl Brandt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1984-1206-511,_Albert_Speer.jpg
July 1944 assassination plot
Nero Decree
scorched earth
Hamburg
final political testament
Karl-Otto Saur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1985-079-31,_Verhaftung_von_D%C3%B6nitz,_Speer_und_Jodl.jpg
Flensburg Government
Alfred Jodl
Flensburg Government
war crimes
conspiracy
crime against peace
wars of aggression
crimes against humanity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-V01057-3,_N%C3%BCrnberger_Prozess,_Angeklagte.jpg
Nuremberg
U.S. Supreme Court
Justice
Robert Jackson
prisoners of war
foreign workers
codefendants
Hermann Giesler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1946-10-08_21_Nazi_Chiefs_Guilty.ogv
Nuremberg Trials
[106]
one American
Rudolf Wolters#Spandau years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:6th_Inf_Regt_Spandau_Prison_1951.jpg
West Berlin
four occupying powers
Bering Strait
Guadalajara
Wilmersdorf
ancient Egypt
Lucas Cranach
Friedrich Preller
Genghis Khan
Garden of Eden
Charles de Gaulle
George Ball
John J. McCloy
Hartley Shawcross
Willy Brandt
his daughter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speerproperty.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_speer_grab.JPG
Der Spiegel
autobiographical
Wolf Jobst Siedler
Albert
Hilde
Hans Baur
hair shirt
live on locusts and wild honey
Playboy
BBC
Ludovic Kennedy
Heathrow Airport
Home Secretary
Robert Carr
Newsnight
Adam Tooze
The Wages of Destruction
Nuremberg Laws
German Federal Archives
David Irving
Matthias Schmidt
Lower Silesia
Upper Silesia
Auschwitz
Posen Conference
gave a speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bronze_eagle_from_the_german_rechs_chancellery.jpg
Imperial War Museum
Koblenz
Dan van der Vat
The Daily Telegraph
Heinrich Breloer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raoul_Wallenberg.jpg
Lidingö Municipality
Sweden
University of Michigan
Swedish
businessman
diplomat
humanitarian
Jews
Nazi-occupied Hungary
Holocaust
special envoy
Budapest
passports
designated as Swedish territory
Siege of Budapest
Red Army
espionage
disappeared
Lubyanka prison
Moscow
US intelligence
Hungarian Jews
presumed death
Tom Lantos
Honorary Citizen of the United States
Canada
Hungary
Israel
Righteous among the Nations
Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States
Raoul Wallenberg Award
http://nobeliefs.com/images/Muller.jpg
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101III-Alber-096-32,_Erich_von_dem_Bach-Zelewski.jpg
Lauenburg
Pomerania
German Empire
Munich
West Germany
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
Nazi Germany
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_Schutzstaffel.svg
Waffen SS
Obergruppenführer
Waffen-SS
SS and Police Leader
Warsaw Uprising
Iron Cross
German Cross
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Nazi
SS
Poland
Russia
Roman Catholic
Lutheran
Polish
Dortmund
insurance
clerk
colonial
force
Tanzania
battle
Custer
Battle of Little Bighorn
source?
Prussian
World War I
Honor
army
Silesian Uprisings
courage
border
guards
Nazi Party
SS
Brigadeführer
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald
Jewish
Reichstag
Night of the Long Knives
East Prussia
Silesia
Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer
units
command
POWs
September Campaign
Heinrich Himmler
Commissioner
Strengthening
Germandom
concentration camp
O?wi?cim
Auschwitz
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101III-Weiss-047-31,_Russland,_Minsk,_Ordnungspolizei,_Bach-Zelewski.jpg
mass murder
Riga
Belarus
Wehrmacht
partisan
Adolf Hitler
Soviet
Hans-Adolf Prützmann
nervous breakdown
ethnic cleansing
genocide
Jews
physical
assassination
Reinhard Heydrich
Prague
Reich Protector
Bohemia and Moravia
Kurt Daluege
anti
partisan
Belgium
France
General Government
Netherlands
Norway
Ukraine
Yugoslavia
Bialystok
front line
Kovel
Himmler
executions
destruction
US
military police
arrested
Allies
Nuremberg Trials
trial
war crimes
USSR
tried
prison
Hermann Göring
cyanide
serial numbers
officer
Communists
Hitler
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-C13564,_Ludwig_Beck.jpg
German
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J02034,_Herbert_Backe.jpg
German
politician
war criminal
Batumi
Georgia
Third Reich
government
Minister
Agriculture
Cabinet
Karl Dönitz
World War II
political request
Alfred Rosenberg
Reichskommissariat
Hunger Plan
Slavic
Allies
tried
Ministries Trial
hanging
cell
Nuremberg
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H28122,_Werner_von_Blomberg.jpg
military
Hitler
Cabinet
First World War
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-C0716-0046-003,_Claus_Schenk_Graf_v._Stauffenberg.jpg
Jettingen
Kingdom of Bavaria
Germany
Berlin
Execution by Firing Squad
Wehrmacht Heer
20 July plot
Albstadt
Oberst
Catholic
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
von Stauffenberg
Gm
Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Franz-Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
officer
Catholic
Nazi Party
Nazi
Henning von Tresckow
Hans Oster
German Resistance
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-2179,_Walter_Richard_Darr%C3%A9.jpg
Belgrano, Buenos Aires
minister
food
agriculture
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J28625,_Sepp_Dietrich.jpg
soldiers
May 28
1892
April 21
1966
Knight's Cross
WW2
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13805,_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring.jpg
Rosenheim
Upper Bavaria
Bavaria
Nuremberg
Middle Franconia
politician
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#cite_note-HermannG.C3.B6ring-0
President
Reichstag
Second World War
Commander-in-Chief
German air force
concentration camps
Gestapo
Final Solution
charged
decided
hanged
killed himself
execution
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R25668,_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring.jpg
judge
chancellor
Otto von Bismarck
Namibia
godfather
mansion
romantic
Fürth
Ansbach
Karlsruhe
Abitur
Bavarian
Mulhouse
First World War
Lieutenant
infantry
rheumatism
hospital
Bruno Loerzer
air force
targets
awarded
plane
bomber
Pour le Mérite
Manfred von Richthofen
The Red Baron
stunt
pilot
Scandinavia
National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
married
Stockholm
Beer Hall Putsch
Austria
morphine
dependent
treatments
Sweden
Weimar Republic
Second World War
[9]
party
president
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-048-11A,_Berlin,_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring_und_Adolf_Hitler.jpg
chancellor
specific
responsibility
ministry
minister president
Prussia
General
Paul von Hindenburg
agencies
Condor Legion
Spain
Francisco Franco
Kristallnacht
economic
Great Britain
successor
died
the Holocaust
Fritz Sauckel
Russian
expensive
Berchtesgaden
telegram
affairs
state
Americans
offices
testament
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:G%C3%B6ringDetentionReport.png
mugshots
surrendered
Rudolf Hess
judges
guilty
court
verdict
suicide
American
soldier
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1971-033-01,_Alfred_Jodl.jpg
Würzburg
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Nuremberg trials
sentenced to death
war criminal
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst-Kaltenbrunner-72-916.jpg
Ried im Innkreis
jurist
NSDAP
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office)
Interpol
Frankfurt on Oder
Standartenführer
SS-VT
11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
combat
command
SS-Junkerschule
Bad Tölz
change
medal
Battle of France
Company
Infantry
Regiment
caliber
artillery
guns
Division
captive
Russians
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1998-0112-500,_Wilhelm_Keitel.jpg
Helmscherode
field marshal
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0414-500,_Berlin,_Fest_der_Flieger,_Ehrungen.jpg
January 22
1891
August 23
1960
Hamburg
Luftwaffe
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-128-63,_Erich_Raeder.jpg
Wandsbek
Kiel
naval
English
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-146-01,_Fritz_Todt.jpg
Pforzheim
K?trzyn
ingeneur
[1]
SA
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R14128A,_Martin_Bormann.jpg
Halberstadt
politican
secretary
Munich putsch
advisors
Staatsgerichtshof
Reichsminister
Scotland
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0821-502,_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg
Mönchengladbach
propaganda
regime
literature
philosophy
Heidelberg
Führerbunker
chancellor of Germany
bookkeeper
siblings
malformed
Rheydt
high school
[5]
volunteered
Army
refused
limp
speech
headteacher
matriculated
Bonn
ancient
philology
history
German
PhD
Drama
university
Deutsche Bank
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Gauleiter
Brandenburg
published
movie
deputy
Franz Ritter von Epp
witnesses
wedding
Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
eye-witness
arrest
Ernst Röhm
Bad Wiessee
exhibits
Degenerate Art
diplomat
teenager
murder
broadcast
announcements
cinema
radio
Wannsee Conference
Berlin Sportpalast
total war
coup
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
succeed
marriage
Eva Braun
Chancellor of Germany
poisoned
Bischwiller
presidents
Friedrich Ebert
Mitläufer
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-09313,_Otto_Mei%C3%9Fner.jpg
Vaihingen
Foreign minister of Germany
key
foreign policy
Treaty of Versailles
territorial
compliant
fervent
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Spandau Prison
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_N_1310_Bild-135,_Konstantin_von_Neurath.jpg
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ribbentrop.jpg
Foreign Minister
executed
hanging
war crimes
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2005-0168,_Alfred_Rosenberg.jpg
Tallinn
NSDAP
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Sauckel2.jpg
27 October
1894
16 October
1946
enslavement
Plenipotentiary
executed
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-12733,_Hjalmar_Schacht.jpg
economics
Reichsbank
defendants
Horace Greeley
SS officer, Kurt Gerstein
Kurt Gerstein