World History
Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS. Talk about chilling. Did you know that the Auschwitz Death Camp was a place of fun and joy? Well, for a few people anyway. This website has photographs of Nazi leadership at the camp provided by the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
A review of the site notes, "In 1944, a German SS officer named Karl Höcker was stationed at Auschwitz as an adjutant to the camp's commandant. During the time he was there, the Nazi official kept a scrapbook. But this isn't like any Auschwitz documentation you've seen before. In these images, Höcker and other camp leadership and staff relax at a wooded retreat, hold sing-alongs, and smoke cigars. Josef Mengele, the camp's monstrous doctor, smiles and socializes. SS auxiliary women lounge on deck chairs, snack on berries, and get caught in a rain storm. Höcker lights a Christmas tree. "
It did not take long after Christmas 1944 for the Nazis to get their rightful defeat at the hand of the Allies. What a horrid scrapbook. I guess even those engaged in obvious criminality can still socialize, charm, and have a good time? Such is the banality of evil.
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- Camp David Accords -- Framework For Peace
Camp David Accords -- Framework for Peace - A survey of the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, with sections: Prelude, Preparations, Negotiations, and Legacy; from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. From the site: The history...
- "remember Our Faces"--teaching About The Holocaust.
"Remember Our Faces"--Teaching about the Holocaust. This is an essay which looks at ways the Holocaust can be taught in classrooms. From the site: A Holocaust survivor recently implored social studies teachers to "remember our faces." This becomes...
- Auschwitz Commandant's Daughter Hiding In Northern Virginia
Here is Rudolf Höss, Kommandant of Auschwitz. His daughter, Brigitte Höss, 80 years old, lives in northern Virginia and has never talked about her father's role in the Holocaust. In a remarkable story in the Washington Post Magazine section, we...
- Google Cultural Institute
Google has an amazing collection of online exhibitions dealing with world history. The collection is called The Cultural Institute. The collections include exhibitions on D-Day, Anne Frank, Auschwitz, and Nelson Mandela. The images are awesome ...
World History
Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS
Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS. Talk about chilling. Did you know that the Auschwitz Death Camp was a place of fun and joy? Well, for a few people anyway. This website has photographs of Nazi leadership at the camp provided by the U.S. Holocaust Museum.A review of the site notes, "In 1944, a German SS officer named Karl Höcker was stationed at Auschwitz as an adjutant to the camp's commandant. During the time he was there, the Nazi official kept a scrapbook. But this isn't like any Auschwitz documentation you've seen before. In these images, Höcker and other camp leadership and staff relax at a wooded retreat, hold sing-alongs, and smoke cigars. Josef Mengele, the camp's monstrous doctor, smiles and socializes. SS auxiliary women lounge on deck chairs, snack on berries, and get caught in a rain storm. Höcker lights a Christmas tree. "
It did not take long after Christmas 1944 for the Nazis to get their rightful defeat at the hand of the Allies. What a horrid scrapbook. I guess even those engaged in obvious criminality can still socialize, charm, and have a good time? Such is the banality of evil.
- Snatched From The Holocaust
The BBC has this touching story about a six year old girl whose life was saved from the Holocaust by a neighbor. The story is Snatched from the Holocaust and it was written by Barbara Govan. The story begins, "Aged just six, Suzanne Rappoport saw both...
- Camp David Accords -- Framework For Peace
Camp David Accords -- Framework for Peace - A survey of the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, with sections: Prelude, Preparations, Negotiations, and Legacy; from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. From the site: The history...
- "remember Our Faces"--teaching About The Holocaust.
"Remember Our Faces"--Teaching about the Holocaust. This is an essay which looks at ways the Holocaust can be taught in classrooms. From the site: A Holocaust survivor recently implored social studies teachers to "remember our faces." This becomes...
- Auschwitz Commandant's Daughter Hiding In Northern Virginia
Here is Rudolf Höss, Kommandant of Auschwitz. His daughter, Brigitte Höss, 80 years old, lives in northern Virginia and has never talked about her father's role in the Holocaust. In a remarkable story in the Washington Post Magazine section, we...
- Google Cultural Institute
Google has an amazing collection of online exhibitions dealing with world history. The collection is called The Cultural Institute. The collections include exhibitions on D-Day, Anne Frank, Auschwitz, and Nelson Mandela. The images are awesome ...