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Why did Nazis burn 628 Belarusian villages to the ground?
Another answer has cited the organisatorial level of the eliminatory actions of German forces in the Soviet Union from Christopher Brownings seminal book. I'd like to add the arguments offered by the ...
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Why did Nazis burn 628 Belarusian villages to the ground?
Nazis were not primarily in control of German racial policy in the East. The heer was primarily in control. After the heer, security apparatus controlled ultimately by the SS organisation, but often ...
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Did ash rain in cities near Nazi concentration camps?
This scene in Schindler's List depicts ash falling in a city near a concentration camp.
The city itself is Cracow (Kraków) in Poland and the concentration camp was situated south east of the city ...
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What was the fate of Latvian Jewish population sent to gulags in June 1941?
You mention "I'm trying to figure out whether any part of this branch of my family might still exist in the eastern hemisphere."
Only a few months ago I confirmed 3 lines of Latvian ...
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After turndown by North America, did Jewish refugee ships try to secretly beach and live somewhere uninhabited?
Not, that is impossible. Even back then. Every ship needs two items to sail:
a manifest, that states all cargo
a passenger list
Without all of the above a ship is not allowed to sail. Those ...
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Why did Nazis burn 628 Belarusian villages to the ground?
Nazi plans were not entirely consistent.
On the one hand, they wanted Lebensraum in the East for Germanic settlers. That was the very-long-term vision. On the other hand, they wanted the slave ...
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Did ash rain in cities near Nazi concentration camps?
Are there written accounts or reports of this happening in Nazi cities?
Keep in mind that the label 'concentration camp' described different things in different times and places.
There were ...
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