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  Homosexuals: Victims of the Nazi Era
Conditions in the camps were generally harsh for all inmates, many of whom died from hunger, disease, exhaustion, exposure to the cold, and brutal treatment.
Among the Jewish inmates at Ravensbrück concentration camp selected for extermination, she was gassed in the Bernburg psychiatric hospital, a "euthanasia" killing center in Germany, in 1942.
After the war, homosexual concentration camp prisoners were not acknowledged as victims of Nazi persecution, and reparations were refused.
www.holocaust-trc.org /homosx.htm   (1427 words)

  
  Female guards in Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One head female overseer, Helga Hegel, referred to her female guards as "SS" women at a post-war hearing.
Relations between SS men and female guards is said to have existed in many of the camps, and Heinrich Himmler had told the SS men to regard the female guards as equals and comrades.
Klara Kunig became a camp guard in the middle of 1944 and served at Ravensbruck and its subcamp at Dresden-Universelle.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
Female guards were generally middle to low class and had no work experience; their professional background varied: one source mentions former matrons, hairdressers, street car ticket takers, opera singers, or retired teachers.
Relations between SS men and female guards is said to have existed in many of the camps, and Heinrich Himmler had told the SS men to regard the female guards as equals and comrades.
Klara Kunig became a camp guard in the middle of 1944 and served at Ravensbruck and its subcamp at Dresden-Universelle.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Female_guards_in_Nazi_concentration_camps   (2434 words)

  
 Female Jehovah's Witnesses in the Women's Concentration Camp in Moringen: Research on the Resistance of Women to Nazism
The interconnection of the workhouse with the concentration camp is peculiar in the case of the Moringen concentration camp.
One concentration camp inmate relates that the meals were ”very bad, very frugal, the nastiest I have ever known in my life.” (23) The ”house and work rules” were, in their main points, modeled after the common rules in prisons.
In the beginning of his reports, the concentration camp director could, to a large extent, state that the respective Jehovah’s Witness ”behaved well” or ”orderly” and ”worked hard,” (84) but then he wrote that the Witnesses were still ”pathologically fanatical,” (85) and ”unteachable,” and that their ”attitude” had not changed.
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 Avalon Project : Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Volume 1 Chapter XI - The Concentration Camps
That the Nazis had already conceived the device of the concentration camp as a means of suppressing and regimenting opposition elements was forcefully brought to my attention during the course of a conversation which I had with Dr. Wilhelm Frick in December 1932.
It is clear from the foregoing evidence that prior to the launching of a Nazi aggression, the concentration camp had been one of the principal weapons by which the conspirators launched their aggression and their armies swept over Europe, they brought the concentration camp and the whole system of Nazi terror to occupied countries.
Concentration camps were spoken of in whispers, and the whispers were spread by agents of the secret police.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/document/nca_vol1/chap_11.htm   (7546 words)

  
 Concentration Camps, Nuremberg Charges, 1946, Part 2
Concentration camps were spoken of in whispers, and the whispers were spread by agents of the secret police.
Once in the custody of the SS guards, the victim was beaten, tortured, starved, and often murdered through the so-called "extermination through work" program, or through mass execution gas chambers and furnaces of the camps (which were portrayed in the motion picture evidence).
Although this camp had in view the primary object of putting to work the mass slave labor, another of its primary objectives was the elimination of human lives by the methods employed in handling the prisoners.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/concamp2.htm   (2948 words)

  
 Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center
A concentration camp near Ravensbruck, a village on the Havel River two - thirds of a mile (1 km) from the Furstenberg railway station and 56 miles (90 km) north of Berlin.
The female supervisors were SS volunteers or women who had accepted the post for the sake of the better pay and work conditions it offered, compared to work in factories.
In April 1941 a concentration camp for men was established near the Ravensbruck camp, but officially it was a satellite of the Sachsenhausen camp.
motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org /text/x28/xr2821.html   (699 words)

  
 concentration campsE
The guard in the camp received a bonus of 15 marks every day for "dangerous work", because they were exposed to "danger of infection".
The first prisoners were Poles; but in 1941 the camp was extended and the first jews send to the place, and Plaszow became a concentration camp serving only one purpose: to get as much work out of and earn as much money on the prisoners as possible, before they died.
The camp had three commandants over the years, the last of them was Amon Leopold Göth who considered himself a cultivated man. In reality he was a sadist who was personally responsible for the death of several prisoners, He was arrested by the SS for having stolen the seized property of prisoner for himself.
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 Concentration Camps, 1933-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.
In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, The SA (Sturmabteilungen; commonly known as Storm Troopers), the SS (Schutzstaffeln; the elite guard of the Nazi party), the police, and local civilian authorities organized numerous detention camps to incarcerate real and perceived political opponents of Nazi policy.
The SS established larger camps in Oranienburg, north of Berlin; Esterwegen, near Hamburg; Dachau, northwest of Munich; and Lichtenburg, in Saxony.
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 Kloosterman Genealogy, Concentrationcamp Neuengamme
In December 1938 the SS moved an external command group with one hundred inmates from the concentration camp Sachsenhausen to an empty brickwork in Hamburg-Neuengamme, which became an independent concentration camp in the early summer 1940.
The site is one of the few concentration camps in Germany where most of the buildings have been conserved and serves as a memorial today.
After the war, the former concentration camp buildings were initially used to intern members of the SS, NSDAP functionaries and officials of the Wehrmacht and the Nazi State.
www.kloosterman.be /Neuengamme-eng.php   (1154 words)

  
 Concentration Camps
Inside the concentration camps there were Jewish police, prisoners known as "kapos." In return for special privileges, kapos forced other Jews to obey Nazi orders, just as the Jewish police had done in the ghettos.
In the concentration camps, however, there were also German guards (and sometimes Polish and Ukranian guards) always present, ready and willing to beat or shoot anyone who did not obey orders.
Sometimes there was another ghastly train journey to be made from the concentration camp to one of the death camps.
www.rossel.net /Holocaust08.htm   (2481 words)

  
 Ravensbrück
The SS used this adjacent camp for old, sick, and weakened women who had been selected as “unable to work;” and were sometimes given poisonous “white powder.” Women who were sentenced to death for acts such as espionage at times were shot in a special corridor between buildings, and other women received lethal injections.
Irma Grese was a “graduate” of the Ravensbrück training camp, who was sentenced to death by hanging and executed in 1945 for her crimes at Auschwitz.
Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a guard and supervisor of guards at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, and Majdanek entered the United States after World War II and was extradited to Germany in 1981 by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Ravensbruck.html   (1946 words)

  
 NAZI Concentration Camps, Holocaust Camps & Death Camps Film Collection
At Leipsig Concentration Camp, there are stark pictures of the holocaust - piles of dead bodies, and many living Russian, Czechoslovakian, Polish and French prisoners.
At Arnstadt Concentration Camp, German villagers are forced to exhume Polish and Russian bodies from mass graves.
At Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Navy Lt. Jack H. Taylor stands with fellow survivors and describes his capture, imprisonment and conditions at Mauthausen.
www.thehistoricalarchive.com /products/NAZI-Concentration--61.html   (902 words)

  
 Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich
This clothing design and tailoring studio was established at the urging of the wife of Rudolf Höss, the feared commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The purpose of the Auschwitz clothing studio is to produce extensive and stylish wardrobes for the wives of SS officers and the camp's female SS guards.
One SS female camp guard is so enthralled with the fashions the prisoners are producing that she announces to them, "When the war is over, I am going to open a large dressmaking studio with you in Berlin.
www.jewishmag.co.il /90mag/nazichic/nazichic.htm   (1124 words)

  
 Catalogue of images, Nazi concentration and death camps
Camp memorial statues and plaques throughout interior of former barracks
SS guard houses in front of the camp (for female guards and SS officers)
Camp fences, barbed wire, guard towards, cement walls
www.rudyfoto.com /hol/rbholocaustlog.html   (2074 words)

  
 Other Voices 2.1 (February 2000), Stephen C. Feinstein: "Zbigniew Libera's Lego Concentration Camp: Iconoclasm in ...
The smaller boxes depict a guard bludgeoning an inmate, medical experiments, another hanging, and a commandant, reminiscent of something more from the Soviet Gulag than the Nazi concentration camp system, as he is bedecked with medals and wears a red hat.
In a world where the normal obsession with violence is associated with guns, the mere idea of a "toy" concentration camp is enough to evoke strong responses, as was in the case at an international conference in December, 1997.
First, the idea of a concentration camp available in toy and kit form was deemed offensive and not suitable for children.
www.othervoices.org /2.1/feinstein/auschwitz.html   (2833 words)

  
 Hitler was a Leftist
As the badge used by the Nazis to designate homosexuals in the concentration camps, the pink triangle perfectly expresses the message of "gay rights." That message is that homosexuals are currently and historically victims of irrational prejudice and that those who oppose homosexuality are hateful bigots.
Since long before the Nazis, homosexuals had generally lived clandestine lives, so it was not unusual for revelations of their conduct to come as a surprise to their communities when it became a police matter.
More significantly, many of the guards and administrators responsible for the infamous concentration camp atrocities were homosexuals themselves, which negates the proposition that homosexuals in general were being persecuted and interned.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1010512/posts   (16255 words)

  
 Abu Ghraib Pulls 'Better Angels' Down to Earth
Overall, sex differences in aggression depend on a host of factors: the situation, the perceived consequences of the aggression and the extent to which the aggression is public versus private.
Female guards in Nazi concentration camps, for instance, were known to be vicious and women have often supported males in outbursts of ethnic cleansing.
The myth of the always-nurturing female may be hard for women to give up, because they've sometimes used it to their advantage.
www.womensenews.org /article.cfm?aid=1971   (1349 words)

  
 The White Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Grain towers were filled with unused grain guarded by communist military units, while the farmers who grew the grain, and could even see the towers outside their own doors, starved along with their families and young children.
If the horrors of concentration camp existence so often portrayed on our televisions were attributed to the Russians and the Jewish establishment of evil known as Communism, then our television would truly reflect a far more truthful and more accurate historical picture of the atrocities that took place more than fifty years ago.
In their camps, 88% died or were beheaded as the Japanese played ninja with the heads of defenseless prisoners of war, especially during the Batan death march.
www.christianseparatist.org /briefs/sb4.03.htm   (5593 words)

  
 Nazi
Eventually she was escorted under armed guard to a pay phone to make the call she vainly believed would clear everything up and allow her to stay in the country.
And it's no secret anymore that major U.S. corporations traded with Nazi Germany during WWII while at the same time we were fighting them, or that major U.S. banks and investment houses invested Nazi funds to keep their war machine going (one such investor was none other than Prescott Bush).
Nazi antisemitism was not based on biological "race" but on the religion of one's grandparents, parents or in some cases, one's own religion.
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 Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
The intermarriage of Africans and Native Americans was facilitated by the disproportionality of African male slaves to females (3 to 1) and the decimation of Native American males by disease, enslavement, and prolonged wars with the colonists.
The psychological impact on the individual of slavery contrasted to that of individuals who survived the Nazi holocaust, In Stanley M. Elkins thinking, the concentration camps were a modern example of a rigid system controlling mass behavior.
Camp inmates generally agreed that the train ride to the camp was the point at which they experienced the first brutal torture.
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 Internet Archive: Details: Nazi Concentration Camps
At Leipsig Concentration Camp, there are piles of dead bodies, and many living Russian, Czechoslovakian, Polish and French prisoners.
At Nordhausen Concentration Camp, there are piles of bodies.
Reel 5: At Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Army trucks arrive with aid for survivors.
www.archive.org /details/nazi_concentration_camps   (781 words)

  
 SovLit.com - Soviet Literature Summarized
A female sniper with Red partisans misses her 41st vicitim (a White officer), then winds up stranded with him on a desert island, where they fall in love.
Workers are murdered; peasants slaughter and gorge themselves on their livestock to keep it from being collectivized; kulak and sub-kulak forces are liquidated; a proletarian bear, adept at sniffing out kulaks, keeps everyone awake with his noisy hammering; and the fate of the tvordii znak (hard sign) is in doubt.
Vasili Tyorkin fought Nazis hand-to-hand, was wounded several times, slogged through marshes, swam a freezing river to rescue his comrades, shot down a plane with his rifle, settled arguments, made with the wisecracks and could play a mean accordion.
www.sovlit.com   (5011 words)

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