Operation Reinhard, the Glossary

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1. 150 relations: Action 14f13, Adolf Eichmann, Aktion T4, Arbeitslager, Archaeology (magazine), Arpad Wigand, Arthur Liebehenschel, Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, August Becker, August Frank memorandum, Auschwitz concentration camp, Łódź, Łódź Ghetto, Battle of Moscow, Belzec extermination camp, Berlin, Białystok, Białystok Ghetto, Bletchley Park, Branch line, Burial, Calcium hydroxide, Carbon monoxide poisoning, Chełmno extermination camp, Christian Wirth, Crawler excavator, Częstochowa Ghetto, Czechoslovakia, Drohiczyn, Eastern Front (World War II), Einsatzgruppen, Enigma machine, Erich Fuchs, Ernst Damzog, Ernst Lerch, Erwin Lambert, Euro, Extermination camp, Extermination through labour, Final Solution, Forced labour under German rule during World War II, Fort VII, France, Franz Reichleitner, Franz Stangl, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Gas chamber, Gas van, Gemeinnützige Krankentransport GmbH, General Government, ... Expand index (100 more) »

2. Heinrich Himmler
3. Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Poland
4. Reinhard Heydrich
5. Reserve Police Battalion 101

Action 14f13

Action 14f13, also called Sonderbehandlung (special treatment) 14f13 and Aktion 14f13, was a campaign by Nazi Germany to murder Nazi concentration camp prisoners.

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Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust.

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Aktion T4

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

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Arbeitslager

Arbeitslager is a German language word which means labor camp.

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Archaeology (magazine)

Archaeology is a bimonthly magazine for the general public, published by the Archaeological Institute of America.

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Arpad Wigand

Arpad Jakob Valentin Wigand (13 January 1906 – 26 July 1983) was a Nazi German war criminal with the rank of SS-Oberführer who served as the SS and Police Leader in Warsaw (SS-und Polizeiführer (SSPF) from 4 August 1941 until 23 April 1943 during the occupation of Poland in World War II.

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Arthur Liebehenschel

Arthur Liebehenschel (25 November 1901 – 24 January 1948) was a German commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance. Operation Reinhard and Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich are code names and Reinhard Heydrich.

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August Becker

August Becker (17 August 1900 – 31 December 1967) was a mid-ranking functionary in the SS of Nazi Germany and chemist in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).

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August Frank memorandum

The August Frank memorandum of 26 September 1942 was a directive from SS Lieutenant General (Obergruppenführer) August Frank of the SS concentration camp administration department (SS-WVHA).

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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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Łódź

Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre.

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Łódź Ghetto

The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. Operation Reinhard and Łódź Ghetto are Reserve Police Battalion 101.

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Battle of Moscow

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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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Białystok

Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

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Białystok Ghetto

The Białystok Ghetto (getto w Białymstoku) was a Nazi ghetto set up by the German SS between July 26 and early August 1941 in the newly formed District of Bialystok within occupied Poland.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.

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Branch line

A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line.

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Burial

Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects.

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Calcium hydroxide

Calcium hydroxide (traditionally called slaked lime) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(OH)2.

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Carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at excessive levels.

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Chełmno extermination camp

Chełmno or Kulmhof was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem.

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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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Crawler excavator

A crawler excavator, also known as a track-type excavator or tracked excavator, is a type of heavy construction equipment primarily used for excavation and earthmoving tasks.

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Częstochowa Ghetto

The Częstochowa Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the city of Częstochowa during the German occupation of Poland.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Drohiczyn

Drohiczyn (Drohičinas/Drogičinas, translit, translit) is a town in Siemiatycze County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Einsatzgruppen

Einsatzgruppen (also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. Operation Reinhard and Einsatzgruppen are Reinhard Heydrich.

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Enigma machine

The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication.

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Erich Fuchs

Erich Fuchs (9 April 1902 – 25 July 1980) was an SS functionary who worked for the Action T4 mass-murder program, and for the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust.

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Ernst Damzog

Ernst Damzog (30 October 1882 – 24 July 1945) was a German policeman, who was a member of the SS of Nazi Germany and served in the Gestapo.

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Ernst Lerch

Ernst Lerch (19 November 1914 – 1997) was said to be one of the most important men of Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard), responsible for "Jewish affairs" and the mass murder of the Jews in the General Government (Generalgouvernement).

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Erwin Lambert

Erwin Hermann Lambert (7 December 1909 – 15 October 1976) was a German perpetrator of the Holocaust.

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Euro

The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.

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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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Extermination through labour

Extermination through labour (or "extermination through work", Vernichtung durch Arbeit) is a term that was adopted to describe forced labor in Nazi concentration camps whose inmates were held in inhumane conditions and suffered a high mortality rate; in some camps most prisoners died within a few months of incarceration.

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Final Solution

The Final Solution (die Endlösung) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (Endlösung der Judenfrage) was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II.

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Forced labour under German rule during World War II

The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

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Fort VII

Fort VII, officially Konzentrationslager Posen (renamed later), was a Nazi German death camp set up in Poznań in German-occupied Poland during World War II, located in one of the 19th-century forts circling the city.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Franz Reichleitner

Franz Karl Reichleitner (2 December 1906 – 3 January 1944) was an Austrian member in the SS of Nazi Germany who participated in Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust.

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Franz Stangl

Franz Paul Stangl (26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War II.

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894 – 10 May 1945) was a German paramilitary commander in charge of, and personally involved in progressive annihilation of the Polish nation, its culture, its heritage and its wealth.

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Gas chamber

A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced.

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Gas van

A gas van or gas wagon (душегубка, dushegubka, literally "soul killer"; Gaswagen) was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber.

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Gemeinnützige Krankentransport GmbH

The Gemeinnützige Krankentransport GmbH (known as "Gekrat" or "GeKraT", commonly translated as "Charitable Ambulance") was a subdivision of the Action T4 organization.

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General Government

The General Government (Generalgouvernement; Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II.

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Georg Konrad Morgen

Georg Konrad Morgen (8 June 1909 – 4 February 1982) was an SS judge and lawyer who investigated crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps.

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German-occupied Europe

German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

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German-occupied Poland

German-occupied Poland during World War II consisted of two major parts with different types of administration.

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Gottlieb Hering

Gottlieb Hering (2 June 1887 – 9 October 1945) was an SS commander of Nazi Germany.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Grossaktion Warsaw

The Grossaktion Warsaw ("Great Action") was the Nazi code name for the deportation and mass murder of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto during the summer of 1942, beginning on 22 July. Operation Reinhard and Grossaktion Warsaw are Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Poland.

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Hauptsturmführer

Hauptsturmführer (short: Hstuf) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations such as the SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Höfle Telegram

The Höfle Telegram (or Hoefle Telegram) is a cryptic one-page document, discovered in 2000 among the declassified World War II archives of the Public Record Office in Kew, England.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.

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Hermann Florstedt

Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 – on or after 5 April 1945), was a German SS commander and a convicted war criminal and war profiteer.

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Hermann Höfle

Hermann Julius Höfle, also Hans Hermann Hoefle (19 June 1911 – 21 August 1962), was an Austrian-born SS commander and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era.

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History of the Jews in Poland

The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years.

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Hiwi (volunteer)

Hiwi, the German abbreviation of the word Hilfswilliger or, in English, auxiliary volunteer, designated, during World War II, a member of different kinds of voluntary auxiliary forces made up of recruits indigenous to the territories of Eastern Europe occupied by Nazi Germany.

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Holocaust trains

Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Institute of National Remembrance

The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecution service components exercising investigative, prosecution and lustration powers.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Involuntary euthanasia

Involuntary euthanasia, typically regarded as a type of murder, occurs when euthanasia is performed on a person who would be able to provide informed consent, but does not, either because they do not want to die, or because they were not asked.

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Irmfried Eberl

Irmfried Eberl (8 September 1910 – 16 February 1948) was an Austrian psychiatrist and medical director of the euthanasia institutes in Brandenburg and Bernburg, who helped set up and was the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp where he worked as SS-Obersturmführer from 11 July 1942 until his dismissal on 26 August 1942.

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Italian resistance movement

The Italian Resistance (Resistenza italiana,, or simply La Resistenza) consisted of all the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social Republic during the Second World War in Italy from 1943 to 1945.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Karl Streibel

Karl Streibel (11 October 1903 – 5 August 1986) was the second and last commander of the Trawniki concentration camp – one of the subcamps of the KL Lublin system of Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland during World War II.

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Karl-Otto Koch

Karl-Otto Koch (2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945) was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.

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Katzmann Report

The Katzmann Report (or the Final Report by Katzmann) is one of the most important testimonies relating to the Holocaust in Poland and the extermination of Polish Jews during World War II.

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Korherr Report

The Korherr Report is a 16-page document on the progress of the Holocaust in German-controlled Europe.

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Kraków Ghetto

The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major metropolitan Nazi ghettos created by Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.

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Kurt Franz

Kurt Hubert Franz (17 January 1914 – 4 July 1998) was an SS officer and one of the commanders of the Treblinka extermination camp.

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List of Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland

Ghettos were established by Nazi Germany in hundreds of locations across occupied Poland after the German invasion of Poland.

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Lublin Ghetto

The Lublin Ghetto was a World War II ghetto created by Nazi Germany in the city of Lublin on the territory of General Government in occupied Poland. Operation Reinhard and Lublin Ghetto are Reserve Police Battalion 101.

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Lwów Ghetto

The Lwów Ghetto (Ghetto Lemberg; getto we Lwowie) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland.

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Majdanek concentration camp

Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.

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Martin Gottfried Weiss

Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß (– 29 May 1946), was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest.

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Max Koegel

Otto Max Koegel (16 October 1895 – 27 June 1946) was a Nazi officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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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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Netherlands

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

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Nisko Plan

The Nisko Plan was an operation to deport Jews to the Lublin District of the General Governorate of occupied Poland in 1939. Operation Reinhard and Nisko Plan are Reserve Police Battalion 101.

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Non-Germans in the German armed forces during World War II

Non-Germans in the German armed forces during World War II were volunteers, conscripts and those otherwise induced to join who served in Nazi Germany's armed forces during World War II.

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Nuremberg trials

The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.

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Oberführer

Oberführer (short: Oberf) was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) dating back to 1921.

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Obersturmbannführer

Obersturmbannführer (Senior Assault-unit Leader;; short: Ostubaf) was a paramilitary rank in the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) which was used by the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel).

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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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Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.

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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.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. Operation Reinhard and Operation Barbarossa are code names.

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Operation Harvest Festival

Operation Harvest Festival (Aktion Erntefest.) was the murder of up to 43,000 Jews at the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps by the SS, the Order Police battalions, and the Ukrainian Sonderdienst on 3–4 November 1943. Operation Reinhard and Operation Harvest Festival are Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Poland and Reserve Police Battalion 101.

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Operation Reinhard in Kraków

Operation Reinhard in Kraków, often referred to by its original codename in German as Aktion Krakau, was a major 1942 German Nazi operation against the Jews of Kraków, Poland. Operation Reinhard and operation Reinhard in Kraków are Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Poland.

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Order Police battalions

The Order Police battalions were militarised formations of the German Ordnungspolizei (Order Police, "Orpo") during the Nazi era.

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Ordnungspolizei

The Ordnungspolizei, abbreviated Orpo, meaning "Order Police", were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945.

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Organisation Todt

Organisation Todt (OT) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party.

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Ostbahn (General Government)

Ostbahn (for Eastern Railway) in the General Government, were the Nazi German railways in occupied Poland during World War II, subordinated to the General Directorate of Eastern Railways (Generaldirektion der Ostbahn, Gedob) in occupied Kraków; a branch of the Deutsche Reichsbahn National Railway of Germany in the newly created Generalgouvernement territory under Hans Frank.

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Polish Righteous Among the Nations

The citizens of Poland have the highest count of individuals who have been recognized by Yad Vashem as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Poznań

Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region.

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Pyre

A pyre (πυρά||), also known as a funeral pyre, is a structure, usually made of wood, for burning a body as part of a funeral rite or execution.

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Reichsbank

The Reichsbank was the central bank of the German Empire from 1876 until the end of Nazi Germany in 1945.

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Reichsgau Wartheland

The Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen, also Warthegau) was a Nazi German Reichsgau formed from parts of Polish territory annexed in 1939 during World War II.

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Reichsmark

The Reichsmark (sign: ℛ︁ℳ︁; abbreviation: RM) was the currency of Germany from 1924 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, and in the American, British and French occupied zones of Germany, until 20 June 1948.

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Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.

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Richard Glücks

Richard Glücks (22 April 1889 – 10 May 1945) was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era.

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Richard Thomalla

Richard Thomalla (23 October 1903 – 12 May 1945) was a German war criminal and SS commander of Nazi Germany.

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Risiera di San Sabba

Risiera di San Sabba (Rižarna) is a five-storey brick-built compound located in Trieste, northern Italy, that functioned during World War II as a Nazi concentration camp for the detention and killing of political prisoners, and a transit camp for Jews, most of whom were then deported to Auschwitz.

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Romani Holocaust

The Romani Holocaust was the planned effort by Nazi Germany and its World War II allies and collaborators to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against European Roma and Sinti peoples during the Holocaust era.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.

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Schutzpolizei (Nazi Germany)

The Schutzpolizei des Reiches or the Schupo was the state protection police of Nazi Germany and a branch of the Ordnungspolizei.

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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. Operation Reinhard and Schutzstaffel are Heinrich Himmler.

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Sicherheitsdienst

Sicherheitsdienst ("Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Operation Reinhard and Sicherheitsdienst are Reinhard Heydrich.

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Siedlce Ghetto

The Siedlce Ghetto (Getto w Siedlcach), was a World War II Jewish ghetto set up by Nazi Germany in the city of Siedlce in occupied Poland, east of Warsaw.

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SMERSH

SMERSH (СМЕРШ) was an umbrella organization for three independent counter-intelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially announced only on 14 April 1943.

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Sobibor extermination camp

Sobibor (Sobibór) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard.

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Sobibor trial

The Sobibor trial was a 1965–66 judicial trial in the West German prosecution of SS officers who had worked at Sobibor extermination camp; it was held in Hagen.

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Soldau concentration camp

The Soldau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II was a concentration camp for Polish and Jewish prisoners.

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Sonderaktion 1005

Sonderaktion 1005 ('Special Action 1005'), also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion ('Exhumation Action'), was a top-secret Nazi operation conducted from June 1942 to late 1944. Operation Reinhard and Sonderaktion 1005 are code names.

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Sonderbehandlung

Sonderbehandlung ("special treatment") is any sort of preferential treatment.

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Sonderkommando

Sonderkommandos (special unit) were work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners.

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Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre

The Sonnenstein Euthanasia Clinic (NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein; literally "National Socialist Killing Centre Sonnenstein") was a Nazi killing centre located in the former fortress of Sonnenstein Castle near Pirna in eastern Germany, where a hospital had been established in 1811.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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SS and police leader

The title of SS and Police Leader (SS und Polizeiführer) designated a senior Nazi Party official who commanded various components of the SS and the German uniformed police (Ordnungspolizei), before and during World War II in the German Reich proper and in the occupied territories.

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SS Court Main Office

The SS Court Main Office (Hauptamt SS-Gericht) - one of the 12 SS main departments - was the legal department of the SS in Nazi Germany.

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SS Main Economic and Administrative Office

The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt; SS-WVHA) was a Nazi organization responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects of the Allgemeine-SS (a main branch of the Schutzstaffel; SS).

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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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Standartenführer

Standartenführer (short: Staf) was a Nazi Party (NSDAP) paramilitary rank that was used in several NSDAP organizations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Strafkompanie

Strafkompanie ("Punitive Unit") is the German word for the penal work division in the Nazi concentration camps.

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Sturmbannführer

Sturmbannführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank equivalent to major that was used in several Nazi organizations, such as the SA, SS, and the NSFK.

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The Holocaust

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

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Totenkopf

Totenkopf (i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull.

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Trawniki men

During World War II, Trawniki men (Trawnikimänner) were Central and Eastern European Nazi collaborators, consisting of either volunteers or recruits from prisoner-of-war camps set up by Nazi Germany for Soviet Red Army soldiers captured in the border regions during Operation Barbarossa launched in June 1941.

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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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Treblinka trials

The two Treblinka trials concerning the Treblinka extermination camp personnel began in 1964.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.

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Untersturmführer

Untersturmführer (short: Ustuf) was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) first created in July 1934.

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Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.

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Wannsee Conference

The Wannsee Conference (Wannseekonferenz) was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Operation Reinhard and Wannsee Conference are Reinhard Heydrich.

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Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto (Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Witness

In law, a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what they know or claim to know.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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World War II evacuation and expulsion

Mass evacuation, forced displacement, expulsion, and deportation of millions of people took place across most countries involved in World War II.

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Zyklon B

Zyklon B (translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s.

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2nd Belorussian Front

The 2nd Belorussian Front (Второй Белорусский фронт, Vtoroi Belorusskiy front, also romanized "Byelorussian"), was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group.

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See also

Heinrich Himmler

• Ahnenerbe
• Army Group Upper Rhine
• Army Group Vistula
• Bavarian Political Police
• Begleit-Bataillon Reichsführer-SS
• Deutsche Volksliste
• Erhard Heiden
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• Falk Zipperer
• Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
• Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft
• Generalplan Ost
• Gestapo
• HHhH
• Hegewald (colony)
• Heinrich Himmler
• Heinrich Himmler papers
• Hermann Fegelein
• Hexenkartothek
• Himmler's wartime diaries
• Himmler-Kersten Agreement
• Hugo Blaschke
• Ideology of the SS
• Julleuchter
• Karl Maria Wiligut
• Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS
• Kurier für Niederbayern
• Last will and testament of Adolf Hitler
• Lebensborn
• Norbert Masur
• Occultism in Nazism
• Operation Himmler
• Operation Northwind (1944)
• Operation Reinhard
• Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS
• Posen speeches
• Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion
• Reichsführer-SS
• SS Race and Settlement Main Office
• Schutzstaffel
• Sidney Excell
• The Decent One
• Viktor Brack
• Visit of Heinrich Himmler to Spain in 1940

Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Poland

• 1941 Białystok massacres
• 1941 pogroms in eastern Poland
• Częstochowa massacre
• Dzyatlava massacre
• Easter Pogrom
• Executions in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto (1943–1944)
• Firlej, Radom
• German retribution against people of Bydgoszcz
• Grossaktion Warsaw
• Jedwabne pogrom
• Kielce cemetery massacre
• Mass murders in Tykocin
• Massacre in Dynów
• Massacre of Lwów professors
• Operation Harvest Festival
• Operation Reinhard
• Operation Reinhard in Kraków
• Ostrów Mazowiecka massacre
• Radziłów pogrom
• Szczucin massacre
• Szczuczyn pogrom
• Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Wereszczyn
• Wąsosz pogrom

Reinhard Heydrich

• Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
• Conspiracy (2001 film)
• Einsatzgruppen
• Franciszek Honiok
• Gestapo
• Gleiwitz incident
• HHhH
• Hangmen Also Die!
• Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei
• Hitler's Madman
• Horst Böhme (SS officer)
• Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld
• Ležáky
• Lidice massacre
• Operation Anthropoid
• Operation Himmler
• Operation Reinhard
• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
• Reich Security Main Office
• Reinhard Heydrich
• Sicherheitsdienst
• Sicherheitspolizei
• Special Prosecution Book-Poland
• The Man with the Iron Heart
• The Man with the Iron Heart (film)
• Wannsee Conference

Reserve Police Battalion 101

• Biała Podlaska
• Christopher R. Browning
• Daniel Goldhagen
• Hitler's Willing Executioners
• Izbica
• Izbica Ghetto
• Józefów, Biłgoraj County
• Lublin Ghetto
• Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto
• Nisko Plan
• Operation Harvest Festival
• Operation Reinhard
• Parczew
• Piaski, Świdnik County
• Radzyń Podlaski
• Reserve Police Battalion 101
• Serokomla
• Trawniki concentration camp
• Wilhelm Trapp
• Łódź Ghetto

References

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

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