The Holocaust in History History 104 / April 17, 2013
Confinement of Jews to ghettos in occupied Poland
The yellow star: introduced 1940-41 in Germany & across occupied Europe
The Madagascar Plan: a destination for Europe’s Jews?
The Einsatzgruppen and their victims
The Wannsee Conference, Jan. 1942
Zyklon-B
Major concentration & extermination camps
Clearing the ghettos
Auschwitz, camp I: “work will make you free”
Auschwitz, camp II: Birkenau (photos taken in Feb Auschwitz, camp II: Birkenau (photos taken in Feb. 1945, immediately after the camp was cleared)
Selections at the railway platform in Birkenau
Shocking discoveries by Allied soldiers, spring 1945
Dr. Josef Mengele, camp doctor at Auschwitz
Adolf Eichmann