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…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts Numbers of Gassed Victims Conclusions of the Anglo-American committee for studying the Nazi genocide inflicted on the Jews of Europe, with exact breakdown, country by country: Numbers of missing Jews (post-war minus pre-war): Germany 195,000 Austria 53,000 Czechoslovakia 255,000 Denmark 1,500 France 140,000 Belgium 57,000 Luxemburg 3,000 Norway…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts AD AKTION (Ausserordentliche Befriedungsaktion; Extraordinary Pacification Action) Code name for the liquidation of Polish intellectuals and leaders after the German invasion of Poland in 1939. The task was entrusted to Hans Frank as Governor-General and to his deputy, Artur Seyss-Inquart (qq.v). More than 2,000 Polish men and women…