Olivia L. 3B

THE PEOPLE OF THE HOLOCAUST

DR. JOSEF MENGELE CEFREY,HOLLY “DR.JOSEF MENGELE” NEW YORK: THE ROSEN PUBLISHING GROUP INC. 2001 PRINT

Dr. Josef Mengele started out in the Nazi party as an S.S officer. He then became a doctor at Auschwitz when soldiers could not cope with the mass murder they were committing. He was mostly interested in Jewish twins and gypsies with two-colored eyes. He was known for switching twins’ organs and dying prisoners eyes blue. Also killing multi-colored eyed gypsies just to remove their eyes and research them. He also took thousands of prisoners suffering from Typhus and gassed them. Otmar Freiherr von Vershuer was his assistant and helped Mengele escape the death penalty releasing him on false identification.

DR. JOSEF MENGELE: THE ANGEL OF DEATH

Dr. Josef Mengele: the angel of death

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GYPSIES LAWTON, CLIVE “THE STORY OF THE HOLOCAUST” DANBURY 1999, PRINTCEFREY, HOLLY “DR. JOSEF MENGELE” NEW YORK, THE ROSEN PUBLISHING GROUP

INC. 2001. PRINT

Another group targeted by Nazis were the gypsies. Thousands were killed in the holocaust. At first Nazis thought Gypsies could be identified by their blood (which was found to be false after the war). Nazis didn’t like how Gypsies traveled excessively and that they didn’t own their own land. Only the German-Gypsies were spared. Over a thousand gypsies were gassed and two gypsy children were beheaded for examination by Mengele.

GYPSIES

A group of Romani prisoners, awaiting instructions from their German captors, sit in an open area near the fence in the Belzec concentration camp.

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JOSEPH GOEBBELS ROBERTS, JEREMY. “JOSEPH GOEBBELS: NAZI PROPAGANDA MINISTER. NEW YORK: THE ROSEN PUBLISHING GROUP, INC. 2000. PRINT.

Although Joseph Goebbels never killed anyone, World War II would have never begun without him. He was a main cause of Hitler’s fame. Physically handicapped with a club foot he was nicknamed the Clubfoot Demon. From his teenage years Goebbels idolized, and had a strange, serious obsession with Hitler. He was also obsessed with perfection and in his later years he went as far as recording applauses from Hitler’s speeches. Goebbels talked Hitler into suicide and helped burn his and Eva Braun’s corpses. A day later he then killed himself, his wife, and two children identical to Hitler with cyanide and a bullet to the forehead.

JOSEPH GOEBBELS: NAZI PROPAGANDA MINISTER

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Reich propaganda minister Goebbels

HANS AND SOPHIE SCHOLL AXELROD, TOBY. “HANS AND SOPHIE SCHOLL” NEW YORK: THE ROSEN PUBLISHING GROUP, INC. 20001. PRINT.

Siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl were students at Ludwig-Maximalians University in Munich, Germany. That was were they launched the White Rose Movement rebelling against Hitler and his commands. Many joined including close friend Christoph Probst and even philosophy professor Kurt Hurber. When the Scholls Probst were charged with treason by Nazi judge Roland Freisler, they were used as examples and they were publically beheaded.

HANS AND SOPHIE SCHOLL

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Siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl.

HENRICH HIMMLERBEYER, MARK. “HENRICH MULLER” NEW YORK, THE ROSEN PUBLISHING GROUP INC.

2000, PRINT.

Born April 28, 1900, 1917 he joined the army for World Was I. He was in a fight airplane group and got the Bavarian Pilot’s badge at 18 years old. He became chief of the Gestapo and moved to Munich in 1920. By learning interrogation methods by the Soviets he was moved higher up in the Nazi party. He seldom tortured as he commanded others to do it for him, he lied to the public about the severity of the torture methods they used. Using a fake ID he escaped from Berlin to the Caribbean and was never found.

HENRICH HIMMLER GESTAPO CHIEF

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Henrich Himmler

ELIE WIEISEL BAYER, LINDA “ELIE WIESEL” THE ROSEN PUBLISHING GROUP INC. 2001. PRINT

Born in 1928, to his mother he was known as the “golden hair angel.” His name came from his grandfather (Elizer). He was taken from his home to Auschwitz. He survived and wrote many books about his experience as a Jewish prisoner in the holocaust, including Night. He is still living and is one of the head chairs men for the Nation Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.

ELIE WIESEL A SPOKESMAN FOR REMEMBRANCE

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Elie Wiesel