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Kurt Gerstein, the Glossary

Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS).^[1]

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Nazi-era German officials who resisted the Holocaust
Prisoners who died in French military detention

Aktion T4

Aktion T4 (German) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Amen.

Amen. is a 2002 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Costa-Gavras.

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Anti-Christian sentiment, also referred to as Christophobia or Christianophobia, constitutes the fear of, hatred of, discrimination, and/or prejudice against Christians, the Christian religion, and/or its practices.

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Aryan

Aryan or Arya (Indo-Iranian arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (an-arya).

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Belzec extermination camp

Belzec (English: or, Polish) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Campus MovieFest

Campus MovieFest (CMF) is the world's largest student film festival.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Chauvinism

Chauvinism is the unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak, unworthy, or inferior.

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Cherche-Midi prison

The Cherche-Midi prison was a French military prison located in Paris, France.

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Christian ethics

Christian ethics, also known as moral theology, is a multi-faceted ethical system.

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Christian Wirth

Christian Wirth (24 November 1885 – 26 May 1944) was a German SS officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christopher R. Browning

Christopher Robert Browning (born May 22, 1944) is an American historian and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

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Confessing Church

The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.

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Costa-Gavras

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France.

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Degesch

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH, oft shortened to Degesch, was a German chemical corporation which manufactured pesticides.

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Dutch government-in-exile

The Dutch government-in-exile (Nederlandse regering in ballingschap), also known as the London Cabinet (Londens kabinet), was the government in exile of the Netherlands, supervised by Queen Wilhelmina, that fled to London after the German invasion of the country during World War II on 10 May 1940.

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Dutch resistance

The Dutch resistance to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent.

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Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Europe Central

Europe Central (2005) is a novel by William T. Vollmann that won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

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Euthanasia

Euthanasia (from lit: label + label) is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering.

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Extermination camp

Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.

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Göran von Otter

Baron Göran Fredrik von Otter (4 August 1907 – 4 December 1988) was a Swedish diplomat and friherre, best known for his service in Berlin during World War II.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Gerstein Report

The Gerstein Report was written in 1945 by Kurt Gerstein, Obersturmführer of the SS-TV, who served as Head of Technical Disinfection Services of the SS during the Second World War and in that capacity supplied a pesticide, based on hydrogen cyanide, Zyklon B, from Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung) to Rudolf Höss in Auschwitz and conducted the negotiations with the owners.

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, often abbreviated as HJ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes

The following is a list of people who were formally indicted for committing war crimes or crimes against humanity on behalf of the Axis powers during World War II, including those who were acquitted or never received judgment.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Martin Niemöller

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. Kurt Gerstein and Martin Niemöller are people from the Province of Westphalia and Protestants in the German Resistance.

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Münster

Münster (Mönster) is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden)

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Utrikesdepartementet, UD) is a ministry in the Government of Sweden responsible for policies related to foreign policy, democracy, human rights, international development cooperation and foreign trade.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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Obersturmführer

Obersturmführer (short: Ostuf) was a Nazi Germany paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organisations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Odilo Globocnik

Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official from Austria and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. Kurt Gerstein and Odilo Globocnik are 1945 suicides and Nazis who died by suicide in prison custody.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pierre Joffroy

Maurice Marcel Weil (2 December 1922 – 4 October 2008), better known by the pen name Pierre Joffroy, was a French author, dramaturge and journalist who wrote for Paris Match, Libération and L'Express.

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Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (23 July 193029 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 1969.

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Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli,; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Provisional Government of the French Republic

The Provisional Government of the French Republic (PGFR; Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (GPRF)) was the provisional government of Free France between 3 June 1944 and 27 October 1946, following the liberation of continental France after Operations ''Overlord'' and ''Dragoon'', and lasting until the establishment of the French Fourth Republic.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Reutlingen

Reutlingen (Swabian: Reitlenga) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Rolf Günther

Rolf Günther (8 January 1913 – August 1945) was a German functionary who served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) as an Sturmbannführer and who acted as deputy to Adolf Eichmann. Kurt Gerstein and Rolf Günther are 1945 suicides and Nazis who died by suicide in prison custody.

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Rolf Hochhuth

Rolf Hochhuth (1 April 1931 – 13 May 2020) was a German author and playwright, best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy, which insinuates Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, and he remained a controversial figure both for his plays and other public comments and for his 2005 defense of British Holocaust denier David Irving.

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Rottweil

Rottweil (Alemannic: Rautweil) is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess;; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Kurt Gerstein and Rudolf Höss are Waffen-SS personnel.

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RWTH Aachen University

RWTH Aachen University, in German Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Schindler's Ark

Schindler's Ark is a historical fiction published in 1982 by the Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.

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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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SS-Totenkopfverbände

SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) was the Schutzstaffel (SS) organization created in 1933 responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties.

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Stefan Andersson (singer)

Stefan Andersson (born in Haga, Gothenburg, Sweden on 8 August 1967) is a Swedish singer-songwriter.

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Studentenverbindung

Studentenverbindung or studentische Korporation (often referred to as Verbindung) is the umbrella term for many different kinds of fraternity-type associations in German-speaking countries, including Corps, Burschenschaften, Landsmannschaften, Turnerschaften, and Catholic fraternities.

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Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung (SA; literally "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tübingen

Tübingen (Dibenga) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Technische Universität Berlin

italic (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany.

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The Deputy

The Deputy, a Christian tragedy (German: Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel), also published in English as The Representative, is a controversial 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth which portrayed Pope Pius XII as having failed to take action or speak out against the Holocaust.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Thomas Keneally

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor.

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Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.

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Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

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Ulrich Tukur

Ulrich Tukur (born Ulrich Gerhard Scheurlen; 29 July 1957) is a German actor and musician.

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Ultranationalism

Ultranationalism or extreme nationalism is an extreme form of nationalism in which a country asserts or maintains detrimental hegemony, supremacy, or other forms of control over other nations (usually through violent coercion) to pursue its specific interests.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gerstein

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Nazi-era German officials who resisted the Holocaust

Prisoners who died in French military detention

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