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Town in Upper Bavaria district of Bavaria in Germany
The most consistently reported and authoritative figure across the provided recent sources is that ; this number is reaffirmed by institutional commemorations and historical summaries . The archival r...
Estimates of deaths in Nazi concentration, extermination, forced‑labor and related camps vary by definition and scope: camp‑system deaths are commonly reported in the low millions — for example, sourc...
Adolf Hitler was not a communist; he led the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) whose core ideology was , a position Hitler articulated repeatedly and acted upon throughout his care...
The Catholic Church’s response to Nazi persecution was complex and mixed: institutional leaders sometimes protested Nazi attacks on the Church and issued public condemnations (notably the 1937 encycli...
Archival records supporting the commonly cited figure of about six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust come from multiple, independent documentary streams: captured Nazi paperwork (including Wannse...
Both the Soviet Red Army and Western Allied forces (including U.S., British and other Allied troops) discovered and liberated Nazi concentration and extermination camps as they advanced across Europe ...
The Nazi regime pursued a multifaceted campaign against Christian churches that combined legal agreements, political co‑optation, bureaucratic pressure and outright repression—aimed at subordinating, ...
Extensive primary-source evidence — Nazi administrative records, camp registers, death lists, photographs, survivor and perpetrator testimony, and Allied liberation reports — documents the system of c...
Primary Nazi-era documentary sources that set out or record orders for collective reprisals after partisan attacks include high-level Nazi security reports such as Heinrich Himmler’s "Report to the Fü...
The three-word slogan "Arbeit macht frei" — commonly translated as "Work sets you free" — began as a 19th‑century literary phrase and was co‑opted by the Nazis into a cruel, propagandistic emblem abov...
Nazi camp prisoners were given minimal, often nutritionally inadequate rations rather than regular, humane feeding; many inmates—especially Jews—suffered chronic starvation and died from malnutrition,...
The German Catholic Church’s response to Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II was mixed: public leadership often pursued cautious diplomacy and institutional survival while some clergy and lai...
Nazi camps used Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide) widely as a purpose-adapted killing agent at Auschwitz and Majdanek, and smaller camps also had Zyklon B chambers . Available sources discuss other camps an...
The best-established total for Jewish deaths in the Holocaust is , a figure repeatedly cited by major Holocaust memorial institutions and widely used in commemorations and scholarship . Contemporary r...
In the weeks after his appointment as chancellor on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler and his allies moved swiftly to dismantle democratic constraints, exploit crises, and co‑opt institutions so that leg...
Historical estimates converge that roughly between 1933 and 1945, with around and , but precise totals remain uncertain because records are incomplete and many victims were categorized under other lab...
Nazi concentration camp records are primary documentary evidence that directly document many individual deaths and administrative actions, and they form an essential pillar in verifying Holocaust deat...