Dachau

  • The title of this post, I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust, is from a 2005 documentary produced by MTV (yes, MTV). It starred several famous actors reading excerpts from diaries of young people who lived during the Holocaust—most murdered. I’ve mentioned the full-length movies in this post. I also picked…

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  • Madurodam, nestled in The Hague, Netherlands, is a miniature city that captures the essence of Dutch heritage and ingenuity. Spanning just a few hectares, it offers visitors a bird’s-eye view of the Netherlands, featuring intricate replicas of iconic landmarks, modern cities, and traditional villages. Opened in 1952, Madurodam is not only a delightful attraction for…

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  • It is difficult to determine which crimes committed during the Holocaust were the most horrific, but the Action T4 program and Action 14f13 stand out as particularly chilling. While not necessarily more appalling than other atrocities of that dark period, these programs are especially alarming because elements of their ideology and methods appear to be…

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  • What If It Was Me?

    I visited Dachau in June , 2023, and took a few photographs, but out of respect for those who suffered and were murdered there, I only took a few. However, I felt compelled to take a few photographs to use them for the stories I write about Dachau and for the context of the Holocaust.…

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  • The question ‘Is it acceptable to use data from Nazi experiments?’ is one of the most difficult ethical questions to answer. At least for me it is, I am a man who bases a lot of his decisions on his gut feeling. In this case my gut feeling says no. However if I keep my…

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  • The Japanese who liberated the Dachau Concentration camps complex.. The soldiers were from the 442nd Infantry Regiment an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The unit is most known as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry aka Nisei.Although some of them had been in internment camps themselves,…

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  • The First to Die in Dachau

    Often, the public thinks that the murders by the Nazis during the Holocaust only started after World War II began. However, in fact, it began in April 1933, only ten weeks after Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. It is sad enough that young men lost their lives on April 12, 1933; it is even…

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  • The Nazis would never have been able to commit the crimes they committed if they hadn’t received the cooperation from businesses that supplied to them. Technically some companies may not have been directly involved in the killing of Jews.Roma’s,Homosexuals and others, but by facilitating the third reich they played an equal part in the Holocaust.…

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  • Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch-German stage, television, and film actor, as well as a vocalist and concert performer. His career began in the 1920s and spanned more than eight decades. Remarkably, he continued acting until his death, making him one of…

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  • s Allied forces closed in on Germany in early 1945, the SS began evacuating inmates from camps like Dachau in a series of forced marches, hoping to hide evidence of atrocities and prevent liberation by the Allies. Prisoners, already debilitated by starvation and disease, were forced to march dozens of miles in the brutal cold…

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