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"This is the website of a major research project funded by the British Arts & Humanities Research Council dealing with concentration camps in Nazi Germany in the pre-war period. The website has a special section with primary sources: "The absence of accessible documentary material has contributed greatly to the widespread lack of knowledge about the pre-war Nazi concentration camps. Key documents are scattered across archives throughout the world, while most published survivors' memoirs have long been forgotten or gone out of print. This website brings together a selection of documents about the pre-war camps, drawn from various archives and libraries. These sources shed light on the SS camps between 1933 and 1939. Documents have been divided into six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the SS camps, from their emergence (1) and later consolidation (2) under a professional corps of SS men (3), to the conditions inside the camps (4) for different inmate groups (5), as well as the public face of the camps (6). All the documents - as well as several hundred others - appear in: Christian Goeschel and Nikolaus Wachsmann (eds), Before the Holocaust: Documents from the Nazi Camps, 1933-1939 (Lincoln, NE: Nebraska University Press, forthcoming) All documents are translated into English (translation: Ewald Osers). In addition, some documents are available in the German original." "

"Events are taking place at Auschwitz to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, as the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day. Auschwitz survivors and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are among those gathering in Poland, where the camp was built under German occupation. In Berlin, Israeli President Shimon Peres urged Germany and other countries to pursue Holocaust perpetrators. More than a million people were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz. The great majority were Jews but they also included Poles, Roma Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war. The camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on 27 January 1945. "

"Núremberg busca a los dueños de libros requisados por los nazis"

"Hoy, a las 19:00, en el salón auditorio del diario ABC Color, el historiador liberal Mariano Llano presentará su libro "Hitler y los nazis en el Paraguay", segunda edición. El libro trata sobre importantes jerarcas del Partido Nacional Socialista Obrero Alemán (Nazi) que vivieron en el Paraguay después de la terminación de la segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), entre quienes se destacan Josef Mengele, Eduardo Rochmann, Martín Bormann, Hans Rudel, incluyendo el führer Adolfo Hitler. "

"O historiador britânico David Irving, condenado em 2006, na Áustria, por ter negado a realidade do Holocausto, anunciou hoje que vai fazer uma visita guiada pelas instalações nazis na Polónia, entre as quais o campo da morte de Treblinka. Sobreviventes do Holocausto e associações antinazis e antirracistas polacas e britânicas protestaram contra o projecto de Irving e solicitaram às autoridades polacas que proibissem a visita. "Estou em Varsóvia e não posso discutir o meu itinerário por razões de segurança, como você compreenderá", declarou Irving à France Press, adiantando que tencionava ficar na Polónia até 29 de Setembro."

"Quand la CIA protégeait les anciens nazis"

"El autor de La auténtica Odessa revela en este artículo nuevos datos sobre la vida y el secuestro del jerarca nazi, Eichmann, ocurrido hace 50 años en el país. "

"Germany's first postwar exhibition devoted to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has been extended by three weeks due to popular demand, the German Historical Museum (DHM) said on Thursday. Over the past three months, more than 170,000 visitors have flocked to "Hitler and the Germans", which explores the links between German society and Hitler's rise to power in 1933. "

"Dear Friend Hitler, thought to be Indian cinema's first portrayal of the Nazi dictator, is set in the last days of the Third Reich"

"A new biography tells why the serious side to the Führer's 'dumb blonde' was hidden to history"

"Everyone who visits Auschwitz remembers the hair: almost two tons of it, piled behind glass in mounds taller than a person. When I first visited the camp, in 1991, the hair was still black and brown, red and blond, gray and white-emotionally overwhelming evidence of the lives extinguished there. When I returned this past autumn, the hair was a barely differentiated mass of gray, more like wool than human locks. Only the occasional braid signaled the remnants of something unprecedented and awful-the site where the Third Reich perpetrated the largest mass murder in human history. At least 1.1 million people were killed here, most within hours of their arrival. This January 27 marks the 65th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation by Soviet soldiers. The Nazis operated the camp between May 1940 and January 1945-and since 1947, the Polish government has maintained Auschwitz, which lies about 40 miles west of Krakow, as a museum and memorial. It is a Unesco World Heritage site, a distinction usually reserved for places of culture and beauty. But Auschwitz-with its 155 buildings and hundreds of thousands of artifacts-is deteriorating. It is a conservation challenge like no other. "Our main problem is sheer numbers," Jolanta Banas, the head of preservation, tells me as we walk through the white-tiled facility where she and her 48-member staff work. "We measure shoes in the ten thousands." Banas introduces me to conservators working to preserve evidence of camp life: fragments of a mural depicting an idealized German family that once decorated the SS canteen, floor tiles from a prisoners barrack. In one room, a team wielding erasers, brushes and purified water clean and scan 39,000 yellowing medical records written on everything from card stock to toilet paper. The Auschwitz camp itself covers 50 acres and comprises 46 historical buildings, including two-story red brick barracks, a kitchen, a crematorium and several brick and concrete administration

"A 65 años de la liberación de Auschwitz exhiben una carte inédita del gran autro italiano escrita cinco meses después de su liberación del campo de concentración nazi."

"Son 15 imágenes originales del campo de exterminio nazi hallados en 2008 en Berlín. Y entregados luego a Israel por el diario alemán "Bild". "

"A mediados del siglo XX se tachó a todo alemán viviente de ser nazi, aun después de finalizada la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A muchos se los trató como los "verdugos voluntarios de Hitler", tal como se tituló un libro de historia de Daniel Goldhagen. Sin embargo, ya en la década del 30, se gestó un movimiento de alemanes antinazis que buscó en diversos escenarios del planeta apoyo y solidaridad no sólo para combatir al régimen sino para vivir dignamente. Ese fue el caso de un grupo de emigrados de Alemania que llegaron a la Argentina y que fundaron la agrupación Das Andere Deutschland (DAD, "la otra Alemania") que formó parte de una regional sudamericana y realizó un multitudinario congreso en Montevideo en enero de 1943. "

"Biografías, filmes, juegos de mesa con su imagen y subastas en las que se rematan sus objetos personales retoman a Hitler como ícono. Tres artículos analizan por qué la memorabilia nazi es un boom."

"En el marco del BAFICI se estrena este fin de semana un filme sobre el mítico juicio a los jerarcas nazis que fue financiado y luego censurado por los Estados Unidos. Sandra Schulberg, hija del director, restauró la película el año pasado y ahora llega a la sala de Proa para presentarlo. Un acercamiento al documental de guerra como género propagandístico."

"Charles Glass offers a compelling view of life for the 2,000 Americans who spent the Second World War in Paris, says Sarah March"