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Um die Nazi-Verbrechen zu dokumentieren, führte der ehemalige Lagerhäftling Hermann Langbein bereits sechs Jahre nach der Befreiung des Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz zahlreiche Interviews mit anderen Überlebenden. Detailliert berichten die Zeitzeugen vom Aufbau des Lagers, von Selektionen, der Arbeit der Lagerärzte, der Vernichtung in Gaskammern, von Krematorien und dem Schicksal inhaftierter Kinder.

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even...

1960 wird der in Buenos Aires lebende Adolf Eichmann vom israelischen Geheimdienst gefasst und nach Jerusalem überstellt...

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.

In dem geschichtlich außerordentlich kurzen Zeitraum von noch nicht einmal zwölf Jahren haben die Nationalsozialisten Deutschland zu vermeintlicher Größe geführt, die Wehrmacht aus dem Boden gestampft, Ost- und Westeuropa überfallen. Schon vor Kriegsausbruch - von 1933 bis 1939 - saßen in den Gefängnissen und Konzentrationslagern über drei Millionen Menschen. Bis Kriegsende mussten über 7,5 Millionen Fremd- und Zwangsarbeiter Frondienste für Hitler und seine Clique leisten.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New Republic A “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal)...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months.

Täterkind - Der Holocaust in uns. Bei diesem Podcast geht es um den Umgang mit diesem Thema aus Sicht der Täternachkommen und die schwierige Aufarbeitung desselben in deutschen Familien bis heute.

Holocaust Stories are true life stories of those who were survivors of the Holocaust.

Seit Wissenschaftler die Archive des Vatikans erforschen können, gibt es immer mehr überraschende Erkenntnisse zum Verhältnis des Vatikans zu den Nationalsozialisten und der politischen Elite in der Weimarer Republik. Päpste, Kardinäle und Bischöfe sahen sich verstrickt in einen weltgeschichtlichen Kampf gegen das Böse, hinter den Mauern des Vatikans diskutierte man über den richtigen Umgang mit den Mächten der Moderne: mit dem Philo- und Antisemitismus, dem Liberalismus, Faschismus oder Kommunismus.

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial.” The following year, after Lipstadt’s book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving led a...

"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."―Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and...

The Holocaust History Podcast features engaging conversations with a diverse group of guests on all elements of the Holocaust. Whether you are new to the topic or come with prior knowledge, you will learn something new.

When mysterious boxes land on his Vancouver doorstep, best-selling Canadian author Timothy Taylor embarks on a journey of discovery that takes him to Germany and into a hidden family history, spoken about rarely and in whispered tones. Following the breadcrumbs from remote farmhouses to the well-appointed offices of Germany’s cultural elite, Timothy’s on a mission to piece together his family’s experiences of persecution, death, exile and survival under the Nazis, to make sure his mother and grandparents are properly commemorated, to give voice to those the Nazis tried to silence. As ...

Objects of the Holocaust explores personal testimonies across generations through single objects, uncovering lesser-known histories of the Holocaust and telling incredible stories of family, loss, and survival. Hosted by Professor Tim Cole from the University of Bristol and actress and member of the second generation Louisa Clein, the series features a new guest each week who joins to offer a deeply human perspective on one of history’s darkest chapters. Objects of the Holocaust is brought to you by the Holocaust Educational Trust, a charity that works across the UK to ensure that the ...

The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.

A young Hungarian soldier was caught up in the events of the holocaust during WWII. He became a partisan and took notes of what he saw. Fifty years later, in 1998, he wrote a documentary detailing his experiences with the war, the holocaust, and the power of propaganda on the Hungarian population. He concluded it could happen again here.Image Attribution: Fred Romero from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Common

This is Holocaust: Three Generations, a podcast that explores the impact of the past in the lives of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. This podcast was produced thanks to our courageous participants and dedicated scholars. Music by Di Gasn Trio. Interviews of Lotte Weiss, John Grunstein, Betty Yager, and Eva Bechar are from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. For more information: http://sfi.usc.edu/

Discussing the darkest period of modern history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mind-boggling stories from the Holocaust you’ve never heard. Remarkable tales of heroism and horror that will leave you in awe.