Gardelegen Massacre
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German citizens benefited from Nazi policies by taking over jobs previously held by Jews, acquiring Jewish-owned businesses, and participating in furniture auctions held in the homes of Holocaust victims. Acknowledging the complicity of ordinary individuals in state-sponsored crimes is crucial, as it underscores the unsettling reality that no one is inherently immune to the allure
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On May 7, 1945, Life Magazine published a harrowing series of photographs revealing the atrocities uncovered by American troops as they advanced through Germany in the final days of World War II. Among them was the photograph below, depicting the charred remains of concentration camp prisoners who were burned alive inside a barn near the
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I had planned to write a post on the victims of Buchenwald that died shortly after liberation, I was sidetracked by stumbling across the story of Albert Leonard Wittenberg. Albert was born on 14 April 1909, in Paramaribo, Surinam. Surinam was a Dutch colony in South America. Like many of his fellow countrymen and women,
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