|| Return to The Holocaust–A Guide for Pennsylvania Teachers || The Aftermath Synopsis Much of Europe was destroyed in the war. Survivors of the camps were in terrible condition, both physically and psychologically. Trials were held in Nuremberg in 1945 at which top surviving Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes. Similar trials followed, but…
Return to the Facts | The Cybrary of the Holocaust The Aftermath Liberators The Aftermath Lucille Eichengreen’s Story of Liberation Dwight Eisenhower on the Camps Helen Lazar’s story of liberation US soldier’s testimony On Trial Eichmann on Medical Experimentation The Gas Chambers The Testimony of Wilhelm Bahr Rudolf Hoess testimony 1963-65 Frankfurt Trial Testimony of…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts 1963-65 Testimony of Officers at Auschwitz FRANKFURT TRIAL A trial… of the chief SS officers who worked at the extermination camp of Auschwitz. Also known as the Auschwitz Trial, it took place from December 20, 1963, to August 20, 1965, the longest legal case in German records. Robert Karl…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Excerpts from Testimonies of SS men Testimony of SS Scharfuhrer Erich Fuchs, in the Sobibor-Bolender trial, Dusseldorf: [Quoted in “BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA – the Operation Reinhard Death Camps”, Indiana University Press – Yitzhak Arad, 1987, p. 31-32]. ….We unloaded the motor. It was a heavy Russian benzine engine, at…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts I.G. Farben: Testimony at Nuremberg – Part 1 – “It was not until the prosecution staff reached the charge of slavery and mass murder that the critical point of the trial was reached…. The prosecution, in order to support these charges, introduced scores of eyewitnesses who had been in…