Daniel W. Blackmon IB HL History Coral Gables Sr. High Holocaust Part VI Daniel W. Blackmon IB HL History Coral Gables Sr. High

Liberation My uncle was one of the men who liberated Dachau. It was not a subject he ever spoke about.

Liberation .I have since learned that US soldiers, discovering the piles of corpses at Dachau, collected the SS guards and executed them on the spot. Charges for murder were filed against the men, but Gen. George S. Patton quashed the procedure.

Survivors at Dachau

Prisoners Who Died En Route to Dachau

Corpses for burial at Dachau

Corpse for burial at Dachau

GI’s Prepare to Execute SS Guards at Dachau

Estimated Death Toll Country Previous # of Jews Losses: Lowest Est. Losses: Highest Est. Poland 3,300,000 2,350,000 2,900,000 = 88% USSR 2,100,000 700,000 1,000,000 = 48% Romania 850,000 200,000 420,000 = 49%

Estimated Death Toll Country Previous # of Jews Losses: Lowest Est. Losses: Highest Est. Czechoslovakia 360,000 233,000 300,000=83% Germany 240,000 160,000 200,000=83% Hungary 403,000 180,000 200,000=50%

Estimated Death Toll Country Previous # of Jews Losses: Lowest Est. Losses: Highest Est. Lithuania 155,000 --- 135,000=87% France 300,000 60,000 130,000=43% Holland 150,000 104,000 120,000=80%

Estimated Death Toll Country Previous # of Jews Losses: Lowest Est. Losses: Highest Est. Latvia 95,000 --- 85,000=89% Yugoslavia 75,000 55,000 65,000=87% Greece 57,000 60,000=80%

Estimated Death Toll Country Previous # of Jews Losses: Lowest Est. Losses: Highest Est. Austria 60,000 --- 40,000=67% Belgium 100,000 25,000 40,000=48% Italy 75,000 8,500 15,000=26%

Estimated Death Toll Country Previous # of Jews Losses: Lowest Est. Losses: Highest Est. Bulgaria 50,000 --- 7,000=14% Denmark (less than 100) ----- Luxemburg 3,000 3,000 ----

Estimated Death Toll Country Previous # of Jews Losses: Lowest Est. Losses: Highest Est. Norway --- 700 1,000 --- Total 4,194,200 App. 5,721,000 = 68 %

“No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; XVII Meditation Upon Emergent Occasions

“any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. “ John Donne XVII Meditation Upon Emergent Occasions

Works Cited Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Arad, Yitzhak, Gutman, Yisrael, and Margaliot, Abraham, Ed. Lea Ben Dor Trans. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981.

Works Cited Fleming, Gerald. Hitler and the Final Solution. Berkeley: Universtiy of California Press, 1982. Fogel, Ephraim. “Shipment to Maidanek.” Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995. p. 57.

Works Cited Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. New York: Henry Holt, 1985

Works Cited Gordon, Sarah. Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Jäckel, Eberhard. Hitler's World View. Trans. Herbert Arnold. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Works Cited Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problelms nad Perspectives of Interpretation. 4th Ed. London: Edward Arnold, 2000

Works Cited The Nazi Concentration Camps. Ed. Gutman, Yisrael, and Saf Avital .Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 1984. Niemöller, Martin. “First They Came for the Jews.” Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995. p. 9.

Works Cited Noakes, J. and Pridham, G. Nazism: A Documentary Reader. Volume III "Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination" Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1984,

Works Cited Wiesel, Elie. “Never Shall I Forget.” Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995. p. 42 Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.