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Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts The “Killing Centers” “Before the Nazis developed the killing centers and extermination camps, they used the Einsatzgruppen to kill the Jews and other undesirables. But those massacres showed that there were glaring problems inherent in the extermination of masses of people, among them were the need of speed,…
Return to Witnesses The SS Einsatzgruppen – “Action Groups” “Concurrent with the start-up of the euthanasia exterminations, Hitler authorized Himmler to establish a Race and Resettlement Office under the aegis of the SS. It was the Race and Resettlement Office that was to be responsible for the `racial’ purification of the Reich and the establishment…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts The Ovens at Auschwitz Auschwitz lay thirty miles west of Cracow, Poland’s fifth largest city, and was on the direct railroad line to German Upper Silesia. Before the German attack in September 1939, Auschwitz had been a Polish army camp. In May 1940, Rudolf Franz Hoess the adjutant…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts Summary of the Camps This file contains a short survey on the dimensions of the Holocaust, published by the Institut Fuer Zeitgeschicthe (Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich, Germany, at 1992. The Institut Fuer Zeitgeschicthe is considered an authority on this issue in Germany, and has been used…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts I.G. Farben’s Auschwitz Diet I.G. Auschwitz: I.G. Farben’s Buna (synthetic rubber) division, built near the site of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II concentration camps. (Farben eventually built their own corporate concentration camp at the site, to eliminate the need to march prisoners several miles to and from…