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German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
The consensus of Holocaust scholarship holds that Auschwitz deportations and killings totalled roughly , a figure reached by long‑term archival research and not by a sudden recent “reduction” . Earlie...
The postwar trials in 1945–46 relied on a combination of eyewitness testimony (survivors, perpetrators), documentary evidence, film and photographs, and physical site inspection reports to establish t...
Historians debunk Holocaust denial by assembling a dense, convergent body of documentary, testimonial, physical, and demographic evidence that denies any coherent alternative narrative; the record inc...
The clearest primary Nazi documents pointing to both the planning and the administrative implementation of the “Final Solution” are internal memoranda and bureaucratic reports—the Göring memorandum of...
The most direct primary Nazi documents presented at Nuremberg that demonstrated a policy of mass murder were bureaucratic orders and records that showed coordinated, state-level planning (notably mate...
The most significant documents at the Nuremberg Trials proving the Holocaust were the voluminous contemporaneous German records—orders, memos, transport lists, camp reports and statistical summaries—p...
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...