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The Holocaust also had a devastating impact on already-extant art. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany stole approximately 600,000 works of art worth $2.5 billion in 1945 U.S. dollars (equivalent to $34 billion in 2023) from museums and private collections across Europe. [28] Works of art belonging to Jews were prime targets for confiscation. [29]
Historians studying the Holocaust today usually base their research on the German translation, which Allied forces also used when translating the report into English shortly after the end of the war. The Vrba–Wetzler report contains a detailed description of the geography and management of the camps, and of how the prisoners lived and died.
It is a technical term also used in English that was coined after 1945 in West Germany, relating specifically to the atrocities committed in Nazi Germany, and to both historical and contemporary concerns about the extensive degree to which Nazism compromised and co-opted many German cultural, religious, and political institutions.
The Korherr Report is a 16-page document on the progress of the Holocaust in German-controlled Europe. It was delivered to Heinrich Himmler on March 23, 1943, by the chief inspector of the statistical bureau of the SS and professional statistician Dr Richard Korherr under the title die Endlösung der Judenfrage, in English the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. [1]
(IPN copy; Polish translation: pages 23–112 and German original: pages 113–238; photographs) Jürgen Stroop. "The Jewish residential quarter in Warsaw has ceased to exist". www.holocaust-history.org. Archived from the original on March 8, 2010. (IPN copy; German original and English translation) Jürgen Stroop (May 1943).
Nazism and the acts of Nazi Germany affected many countries, communities, and people before, during and after World War II.Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate several groups viewed as subhuman by Nazi ideology was eventually stopped by the combined efforts of the wartime Allies headed by the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
Thanks to a DNA testing service offered by MyHeritage, finding her cousin Shalom Koray and learning of his remarkable tale of survival has opened up a new chapter in their family’s history.
In the glossary (p. 243) of the English translation, under Gross-Rosen, it is stated that “Debreczeni was imprisoned in the Mülhausen [sic] camp in the province of Eule, and in the Fürstenstein and Dörnhau camps.” However, Mühlhausen was a subcamp of Buchenwald. It was quite far (and different) from the camps described in the book, and ...