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  Chapter Excerpt: The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A phrase invented by the Nazis, the Night of the Long Knives, refers to the events of the night of June 30, 1934, in Austria and Germany.
The Nacht und Nebel Erlass or Night and Fog Decree, one of Hitler's personal edicts, was issued on December 7, 1941, the same day Japan attacked America's naval base at Pearl Harbor.
At night, the flames were allowed to die out, the nauseating smoke to drift away, so the next morning's victims would not be alarmed by the unmistakable stench of incinerated corpses.
www.twbookmark.com /books/72/0446607541/chapter_excerpt9458.html   (1337 words)

  
 NIGHT AND FOG
During [the fifties] the imprint of a personal style had appeared in a small number of documentaries exquisitely refined and polished and informed with consummate skill and power to evoke the purpose for which they were made.
Night and Fog, a cool, grave semi-compilation film on the Nazi concentration camps, made in collaboration with Jean Cayrol, the novelist and poet, himself a former camp prisoner, and Hanns Eisler, the composer and former associate of Brecht, who had been driven from Germany by Hitler.
Night and Fog sprang from a sophisticated humanism and a scrupulous concern for style.
film.society.tripod.com /nzffs/res-night-and-fog.htm   (1056 words)

  
 Letter from Office of Chief of Department D of WVHA, Concerning Handling of Prisoners Who Fall Under Night and Fog ...
The purpose of the NN decree is the elimination of all anti-German forces in the occupied territories and their being brought into the Reich.
Hereby the decrees regulating the procedure in cases of death, particularly any notification of the relatives are cancelled.
The effects of deceased Night and Fog prisoners are to be sent in their entirety to the transferring agency in charge which will guard it until further notice.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/nacht1.htm   (545 words)

  
 fog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Up until the time of the "Night and Fog" Decree, prisoners were handled by German soldiers in approximately the same way other countries did: according to national agreements and procedures such as the
The Night and Fog Decree was carried out sereptitiously but it set the background for orders that would follow.
Night and Fog set the stage for the mire of information the Reich hoped would provide a covert for their operations in the eastern theatre.
www.shoaheducation.com /fog.html   (577 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Dead "Night and Fog" Prisoners
The object of the Night and Fog Decree is to leave third persons in the Occupied Territories in uncertainty as to the whereabouts of prisoners transferred to the Reich.
The "N.N." decree is intended to eradicate all forces inimical to Germany in the Occupied Territories and to effect their transfer to the Reich.
The corpse of executed or otherwise deceased "Night and Fog" Prisoners is to be handed over to the State police for burial.
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=63646   (1880 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Other war crimes -- The "Night and Fog Decree"
The "Night and Fog Decree" (Nacht und Nebel Erlass) was a forerunner of the "disappearances" which have become all too common in post-WWII counterinsurgency operations.
Competence for the execution of the Nacht und Nebel Decree was divided between the Wehrmacht offices and the Gestapo, as is shown by Document L-90.
These instructions provide that subjects of foreign countries coming under the Nacht und Nebel Decree were to be sentenced by the competent military courts in the territories occupied by Germany, provided that (a) the sentence involves capital punishment, (b) sentence is passed within 8 days after arrest.
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=54699   (3733 words)

  
 Occupied France
In the case of the 'Night and Fog Decree', however, the object was to secure supplies of labour but to terrorize the populations of the occupied Europe by arresting, (under the cover of night and fog as it were, all perceived ennemies of Nazi Germany.
The disappearance into the night and fog of prison and concentration camps would help instill a climate of fear throughout German-occupied Europe that would militate gainst potential acts of resistance.
The theme of night and fog is explicit in the next scene in which the train arrives at a station at night.
www.sunderland.ac.uk /~os0tmc/occupied/nuit.htm   (1159 words)

  
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Decree no. 160 of March 29, 1987 had made it quite clear that Ali Hassan al-Majid was to enjoy the full authority of the Revolutionary Command Council to orchestrate the efforts of the whole pyramid of other state and party agencies--military, civilian and security--which played a role in Anfal.
It should be recalled that the September 6 amnesty decree stipulated that anyone surrendering after October 9--not the case here--was to be taken into military custody and then handed over to the Northern Bureau Command.
The other is the frequent reference, in Revolutionary Command Council decrees and other documents, to the Party as the agency responsible for executing draft dodgers and deserters--terms whichbecame virtually synonymous, as we have seen, with anyone living in the "prohibited areas" of the Kurdish countryside.
www.hrw.org /reports/1993/iraqanfal/ANFAL13.htm   (2906 words)

  
 Nacht und Nebel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On December 7, 1941, Hitler issued Nacht und Nebel, the Night and Fog Decree.
This decree replaced the unsuccessful Nazi policy of taking hostages to undermine underground activities.
They were usually arrested in the middle of the night and quickly taken to prisons hundreds of miles away for questioning and torture, eventually arriving at the concentration camps of Natzweiler or Gross-Rosen, if they survived.
home.clara.net /clinchy/nacht.htm   (216 words)

  
 Giant Grizzly Twists And Shouts
Thanks to Word magazine for the sample tracks and proving once again that their monthly cover CD is an essential purchase...
They got their heads together and the result was the promulgation of the Nacht und Nebel Erlass - Night and Fog Decrees.
Yes - tonight is the night that the truth is revealed in Nip/Tuck (well over in the states)...
giantgrizzly.blogspot.com   (2328 words)

  
 Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog) prisoners at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Natzweiler-Struthof in the province of Alsace, which is now in France, was one of the main camps where "Night and Fog" prisoners were held, starting in the Summer of 1943.
On September 24, 1943, the RSHA decreed that all "Germanic" N.N. prisoners would be sent to Natzweiler.
After the war, he wrote a book entitled "Night and Fog," which told about the atrocities in the Natzweiler camp, including the execution of women and children in the gas chamber there.
www.scrapbookpages.com /Natzweiler/History/NightAndFog.html   (704 words)

  
 Center for Jewish Studies: Holland Dateline - UW-Milwaukee College of Letters and Science
Seyss-Inquart vehemently denounced the Jews and called for the Dutch to choose between sympathy for the Jews or collaboration with the Nazis.
Government-in-Exile issued a statement that declared all the decrees of the German military administration null and void and committed itself to restoring the stolen property to its rightful owners and to punishing Belgians collaborating with the Germans.
Meeting at Eichmann’s office in Berlin: SS officials in charge of the Jewish affairs in the Netherlands, Belgium and France were ordered to prepare ofr the deportation of the Jews.
www.uwm.edu /Dept/CJS/holocaust/holland.html   (1222 words)

  
 Glossary of Holocaust
The Nazis used this incident as an excuse for the KRISTALLNACHT (Night of the Broken Glass) pogrom.
Night of the Broken Glass: pogrom unleashed by the Nazis on November 9-10, 1938.
Secret order issued by Hitler on December 7, 1941, to seize "persons endangering German security" who were to vanish without a trace into night and fog.
www.school.za /teachers/History/glossary.htm   (3778 words)

  
 Glossary
Aktion A-B is the contraction for "Ausserordentlichen Befriedungsaktion," special pacification operations that began in the General Government in April 1940 organized to liquidate the Polish intelligentsia, including academics, priests, potential resistance, and individuals defined as "criminals." More than 3,500 members of the resistance and 3,000 "criminals" had been killed by late summer 1940.
It is analogous to the Nacht und Nebel ("Night and Fog") decree issued on December 7, 1941, for rounding up suspected members of the anti-Nazi resistance and "persons endangering German security" in occupied western Europe.
On December 16, 1942, Himmler issued his Auschwitz decree on Gypsies, which led to their deportation to and eventual murder in Birkenau.
lastexpression.northwestern.edu /essays/glossary_milton_main.htm   (4235 words)

  
 Holocaust Killing Centers
After these civilians arrived in Germany, no word of them was permitted to reach the country from which they came, or their relatives; even in cases when they died awaiting trial the families were not informed, the purpose being to create anxiety in the minds of the family of the arrested person.
After the "Night of the Long Knives" (see Chapter 8, page 65), authority and management of the concentration camps was turned over to the S.S. The S.S. expanded the concentration camp system, and used these facilities to warehouse other "undesirables," including hundreds of thousands of Jews.
September 1, 1941 Wearing of the Jewish "Star of David" was decreed throughout the Greater Reich.
www2.dsu.nodak.edu /users/dmeier/Holocaust/killing.html   (8701 words)

  
 Reichs Main Security Office [RSHA] Reichs Sicherheits Hauptamt - German Intelligence Agencies
On 7 December 1941 Hitler issued the directive, since called the "Nacht und Nebel Erlass" (Night and Fog Decree), under which persons who committed offenses against the Reich or occupation forces in occupied territories were to be taken secretly to Germany and surrendered to the Security Police and SD for trial or punishment in Germany.
After the civilians arrived in Germany, no word of the disposition of their cases was permitted to reach the country from which they came, or their relatives.
Directives for the prosecution of offences committed within the occupied territories against the German State or the occupying power, of December 7th, 1941 [Night and Fog Decree]
www.fas.org /irp/world/germany/intro/rsha.htm   (476 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
But the fuehrer thought it would be effective in deterring sabotage, which often claimed innocent civilian lives, as well as those of German soldiers, officers and civilian occupation officials.
So he decreed that, with the exception of those cases where guilt could
be established beyond a doubt, presumably through torture, anyone arrested on suspicion of "endangering German security" was to be transferred to Germany under "cover of night".
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GL08Ak03.html   (1012 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Those who resist German rule in occupied territories are to be arrested and deported to concentration camps in Germany.
Those arrested are simply to disappear into the "Night and Fog." Their relatives are not to be informed.
About 7,000 people, mostly from France, are arrested under the provisions of this decree.
www.ushmm.org /misc-bin/add_goback/outreach/ncampchr.htm   (224 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Holocaust on Trial | Timeline of Nazi Abuses: 1941
A member of Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew, who is forced to kneel before a mass grave full of other victims.
Vichy government revokes civil rights of French Jews in North Africa and decrees many restrictions against them.
Hitler issues "Night and Fog" decree, policy under which underground agents and other opponents are made to vanish into the "night and fog."
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/holocaust/time1941.html   (478 words)

  
 Trials of German Major War Criminals: Volume XI
Lammers, Chief of Reich Chancellery; On: Decree and reshuffle of 4.2-38, Defendant's part in politics, Hostages.
Oral Evidence Given by Defendant Goering in Part 9: On Decree and reshuffle of 4.2-38, Defendant's part in politics.
Oral evidence of defendant Kaltenbrunner, given on 11, 12 and 13.4- 46: on Professional and political career, Appointment as Chief of R.S.H.A. and limitations of his position, Peace feelers.
search.nizkor.org /hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-11   (543 words)

  
 Collaboration and Resistance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hitler took $40 billion in tribute from occupied countries, plus confiscation of Jewish property, any motor vehicles, art treasures.
Hitler's "Night and Fog" decree of Dec. 7, 1941, ordered the ruthless execution of all resistance agents.
Polish "Home Army" formed underground of 300,000 in Poland, led by exile government of Gen. Sikorski in London, vs. Soviet-trained Polish Committee of National Liberation.
history.acusd.edu /gen/ww2Timeline/resistance.html   (529 words)

  
 sg11bonline
The system included slave labor as well as
The ‘Night and Fog’ decree -’Nacht und Nebel Erlass,’ also known as ‘Keitel Erlass’ instigated by Hitler, issued on December 7, 1941, provided the methods of handling
Those arrested under the provisions of Nacht und Nebel decree were to vanish without trace, as if fog and night swallowed them, leaving the population in the dark about the fate of the culprit, in order to achieve
www.u.arizona.edu /~shaked/Holocaust/study-guides/SG11b.html   (1309 words)

  
 EthAuschS03
Film: "Night and Fog", Alain Resnais (France, 1955)
(Link: "Night and Fog" description, Night and Fog Decree, Night and Fog narration,
Dumling article on Eisler's music for "Night and Fog")
www.unr.nevada.edu /~achten/EthAuschS03CO.html   (1347 words)

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