This International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi ...

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror ...

In July 1942 Heinrich Himmler again visited Auschwitz ... Treblinka Villager Sixty miles northeast of Warsaw, the SS built a death factory called Treblinka. Unlike Auschwitz, its only purpose ...

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in ...

“Death is my Trade” centers on the life ... so when he is eventually asked by Heinrich Himmler to become commandant of the largest extermination camp built during WWII he barely hesitates ...

(JTA) — One of the country’s largest cemetery operators included a quote from Heinrich Himmler in a calendar it distributed as a marketing tool. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the ...

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler (right) tours the Monowitz-Buna ... only a few hundred survived the first five months. “Death, death, death. Death at night, death in the morning, death in ...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground ... the programme of formal mass murder responsible for the deaths of six million Jews in death camps. Thus, ...

Death Marches' - In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated before they were reached by Allied troops, with prisoners to be transferred to other camps. SS officers ...

The Nazis also dispatched mobile death squads called Einsatzgruppen ... The leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich, introduced the gas chambers in 1941, an ...