Return to The Aftermath | Facts Dr. Ernst Grawitz “Dr. Ernst Grawitz, SS and Police Gruppenfuehrer (Lt. Colonel) was the top doctor in the SS. He was the one who suggested to Himmler in the summer of 1941 gas chambers as means to the `Final Solution,’ i.e. the mass extermination of Jews. He knew of…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Adolf Eichmann – Brief Background Info EICHMANN, [KARL] ADOLF (1906-1962). SS officer charged with the destruction of millions of Jews. … He hated the Jews he met in Vienna, a sentiment stimulated by attendance at Nazi meetings. “Hitler was right,” he said later, “when he charged that this one…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Hoess – “A True Pioneer” HOESS, RUDOLF FRANZ (1900-1947)… In 1934 he was attached to the SS at Dachau … 1940 given rank of SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer in command at the Auschwitz camp. [He] was responsible for the execution of more than 2.5 million inmates, not counting a half million who…
Return to Children of Survivors. If you are a child or grandchild of a Holocaust survivor(s) who is interested in communicating online with others like yourself, this page is for you. There are now two online mailing lists (discussion forums) that I am aware of that are expressly for children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. …
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Camps This is what Eisenhower said on pages 408-9 of “Crusade in Europe” “The same day [April 12, 1945] I saw my first horror camp. It was near the town of Gotha. I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when…