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Carson Hunter

What Most Germans Knew about Concentration Camps - IV - 0 views

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    This article recounts the experiences of American GI's who discovered concentration camps large and small spread through out Germany. They were so horrified and incensed by what they had seen, they rounded up German civilians, men and women, and compelled them to march through the concentration camps, past mass pit graves, and through cemeteries where the victims of the Nazi regime lay.
Rebekah Hamblett

Propaganda in Nazi Germany - 0 views

  • You could only read, see and hear what the Nazis wanted you to read, see and hear. In this way, if you believed what you were told, the Nazi leaders logically assumed that opposition to their rule would be very small and practiced only by those on the very extreme who would be easy to catch.
  • As Minister of Enlightenment, Goebbels  had two main tasks: to ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to the Nazi Party. to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible.
  • Propaganda within Nazi Germany was taken to a new and frequently perverse level. Hitler was very aware of the value of good propaganda and he appointed Joseph Goebbels as head of propaganda
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  • Propaganda is the art of persuasion - persuading others that your 'side of the story' is correct.
  • Books that did not match the Nazi ideal was burnt in public - loyal Nazis ransacked libraries to remove the 'offending' books
  • Films released to the public concentrated on certain issues : the Jews; the greatness of Hitler; the way of life for a true Nazi especially children, and as World War Two approached, how badly Germans who lived in countries in Eastern Europe were treated.
  • "Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good.........the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution."  Goebbels
  • "The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it." Goebbels
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    "Hitler was very aware of the value of good propaganda and he appointed Joseph Goebbels as head of propaganda."
Carson Hunter

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's 36 Questions About the Holocaust - 2 views

  • Six such camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. All were located in Poland.
  • camp is a concentration camp with special apparatus specifically designed for systematic murder.
  • A death
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    Questions and Answers about the Holocaust
Andrew Smith

Holocaust Timeline: The Camps - 0 views

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  • Dachau , one of the first Nazi concentration camps, opened in March 1933
  • Six death or extermination camps were constructed in Poland.
  • These so-called death factories were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec , Sobibór, Lublin (also called Majdanek ), and Chelmno
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  • The primary purpose of these camps was the methodical killing of millions of innocent people. The first, Chelmno, began operating in late 1941. The others began their operations in 1942.
  • mobile killing squads called Einsatzgruppen
Andrew Smith

The first concentration camp. - 1 views

It says that Dachau was ONE of the first concentration camps. I want to know if it was or was not the actual first one. If anyone comes across the FIRST one, not one of, the actual FIRST Nazi conce...

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Michael Eppolito

Concentration Camps, 1933-1939 - 1 views

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      So in 1938 German Police were in charge of the incarceration of Jews/People.
  • After 1938, authority to incarcerate persons in a concentration camp formallly rested exclusively with the German Security Police
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