Jewish Council of
life in
liquidation of
overcrowding and
Polish Jews in
Soviet Jews in
work and
London Times
Loringhoven, Bernd Freiherr Freytag bon
Luxembourg Agreenment
MacMichael, Sir Harold
Madagascar
Majdanek death camp
Manfred-Weiss works
Mann, Ibi
Martynushkin, Ivan
Marx, Karl
Masur, Norbert
Mauthausen concentration camp
McCloy, John
Meinhold, Helmut
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Melchior, Bent
Mengele, Josef
mentally
Mildner, Dr.
Moebius, Kurt
Montgomery, Paul
Moravia
Morgen, Konrad, Auschwitz corruption and
Mordowicz, Czesław
Moscow Special Archive
Mulevych, Oleksiy
Muller, Annette
Muller, Michel
Mussolini, Benito
Nanieva, Tatiana
Nazis: A Warning from History (Rees)
Nazism, Nazis
anti-Semitism of
Darwinian ideals of
ethnic policy of
fear and
gypsies and
Hungarian Jews and
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mentality of
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racial policy of
Red Army vs.
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Versailles Treaty and
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Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact (1939)
Nebe, Artur
Netherlands
Newman, Barbara
New York Times
Nisenman, Jo
Nuremberg Laws
Nuremberg trials
Höss and
Nyiszli, Miklos
Oberhauser, Josef
OKW (Supreme Command of the German army)
Operation Bagration
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Reinhard
Orange, Clifford
Oven, Wilfred von
Pétain, Marshal
Paczyński, Józef
Palestine
Palitzsch, Gerhard
Pearl Harbor
Pechersky, Alexander (“Sasha”)
Pehle, John
Pfannmueller, Dr.
Piechowski, Kazimierz
Pius XII, Pope
Piwczyk, Jan
Plevin, Ernest
Pohl, Oswald
The Poisoned Mushroom
Poland
emigration of Jews to
gas chambers of
German invasion of
Germanization of
German Jews in
German occupation of
ghettos and
Operation Reinhard and
reorganization of
stealing of children from
Polevoi, Boris
Polish Fortnightly
Polish Jews
in Łódź ghetto
German attitude toward
German Jews vs.
ghettoization of
Nazi hatred of
post-war treatment of
stealing of children and
“Political-Economic Guidelines for the Economic Organization East”
Poniatowa death camp
Posen speech (1943)
Pravda
Pressburger, Otto
priests
prisoners of war (POWs)
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Soviet
propaganda
films and
killing of Jews and
Nazi
Soviet Union and
Rademacher, Franz
Rath, Ernst von
Rathbone, Eleanor
Rathenau, Walther
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Red Army
Nazis vs.
See also Soviet Union
Red Cross
Reh, Rita
Relief and Rescue Committee
reverse racism
Richard the Lionheart
Riedweg, Franz
Romania
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Auschwitz Protocols and
Stalin and
Yalta Conference and
Rosenberg, Alfred
Rosenheim, Jacob
Rosin, Arnošt
Rumkowski, Mordechai Chaim
Rybacki, Tadeusz
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Salt, Renee
Samuel, Eugenia
Scharnhorst
Schroeder, Manfred von
Schumann, Dr.
Shukov, Marshal
Shutzstaffel. See SS
Siberia, Stalin’s ethnic deportations to
Sinclair, Sir Archibald
Slovakian Jews
deportation of
persecution of
Slovak People’s Party of Hlinka
Smoleń, Kazimierz
Sobibór death camp
death rate of
development of
escapes from
killing techniques at
resistance at
size of
“Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien population of the East” (Himmler)
Sonderkommando
Auschwitz and
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Soviet Jews
in Łódź ghetto
extermination of
German invasion of Soviet Union and
Nazi policy toward
Soviet Union
Brandi-Grosz mission and
under Communism
German invasion of
Germany and
liberation of Germany by
POWs from
propaganda and
Stalin and
World War II and
See also Soviet Jews
Spaatz, General
Speer, Albert
Speter, Éva
Spitz, Auguste
SS (Shutzstaffel)
Auschwitz and
Auschwitz corruption and
brotherhood of
doctors of
economic considerations and
escape of Danish Jews and
Groening and
Höss in
killing of Jews and
mentality of
punishment of
relationships between inmates and
training of
Stahlecker, Walter
Stalin, Josef
anti-Semitism of
crimes of
death of
ethnic deportations of
fear of
Hitler and
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact and
overpopulation and
Roosevelt and
Soviet Union and
war crimes of
Yalta Conference and
Stangl, Franz
Stark, Hans
starvation
Steiner, Felix
Stenkin, Pavel
sterilization
Storjohann, Uwe
Streicher, Julius
Stroop, Jürgen
Stuelpnagel, Otto von
Sweden, escape of Danish Jews and
Szałek, Zofia
Szmyt, Władysław
Sztojay, Dome
T4 euthanasia program
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Tavor, Moshe
Theresienstadt ghetto
Tiso, Josef
Totenbuch (Death Book)
Trawniki death camp
Treaty of Protection
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death rate of
development of
size of
Tripartite Pact
Trojanowski, Roman
Tuka, Vojtech
Ukraine
United States
Auschwitz Protocols and
Soviet Union and
World War II and
Vajspapir, Arkadiy
Valdeman, Vasyl
Venezia, Morris
Versailles Treaty
Veselá, Silvia
Votavová, Eva
Vrba, Rudolf
Wannsee conference
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Wezler, Alfred
Widmann, Albert
Wirth, Christian
Wisliceny, Dieter
women
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sterilization of
World Jewish Congress
World War I
Communists and
Germany and
Jews and
Versailles Treaty and
World War II
Battle of Britain
France and
German invasion of Soviet Union and
Germany and
Hitler and
Operation Barbarossa and
Pearl Harbor
Soviet Union and
United States and
Wunsch, Franz
Yad Vashem
Yalta Conference
yellow star
Yellow Star
Yugoslavia
Zbozień, Bolesław
Zielke, Egon
Zyklon B
Zylberstein, Jacob
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