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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." "

"antigo membro da SS (tropa de elite) nazista Heinrich Boere foi condenado nesta terça-feira à prisão perpétua por um tribunal da cidade alemã de Aachen, que considerou o réu culpado de um triplo assassinato cometido na Holanda durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial."

"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

"Adolf Hitler tinha medo de dentista, halitose (mau hálito) e se alimentava muito mal, revela um estudo baseado nas anotações do homem que cuidava dos dentes do ditador alemão, o general da SS nazista Johannes Blaschke."

"Em 16 de maio de 1943, acabou o levante no Gueto de Varsóvia, que havia começado um mês antes, quando os nazistas começaram a evacuar o gueto. Até janeiro de 1943, mais de 300 mil pessoas haviam sido deportadas e mortas. "Passa a vigorar imediatamente o trabalho forçado para todos os judeus residentes na região do governo geral da Polônia. Para isto, os judeus serão reunidos em grupos de trabalho forçado. Berlim, 26 de outubro de 1939." O texto é de um relatório do major da SS Franz Röder. O objetivo da ação era a eliminação de "pessoas inferiores" e a busca de novo "espaço vital". A Polônia era o começo."