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Hace 3 días · Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II. On May 27, 1942, he was mortally wounded with a car bomb.
Hace 6 días · Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k / HY-drik; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.. Heydrich was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD).
Hace 4 días · The sit-down between Hans, the Auschwitz commandant’s son, and her mother, the Auschwitz survivor, happened about a day after this triumphant homecoming. Inside Lasker-Wallfisch’s home, both ...
Hace 1 día · Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ⓘ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal.He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which governed Germany from 1933 to 1945.. A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, Göring was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite ("The Blue ...
Hace 4 días · May 30, 2024 at 2:45 p.m. (JNS) As a teenager, Kai Höss found out that his grandfather, Rudolf, was the commandant of Auschwitz and one of the greatest mass murderers in history. He decided to ...
25 de may. de 2024 · The broken swastikas of Luxembourg: when Nazi war criminals were prisoners in the Grand Duchy. Saturday, 17 September 2016. The small European country was used as a top secret, high security jail for big shots of the Nazi regime like Goering and Ribbentrop after the Allies captured them.
Hace 1 día · The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes; German pronunciation: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ⓘ; lit. ' Protection Squadron ') was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz ("Hall Security") made up of party ...
