Reinhard Heydrich

police and security service in Prague, saw the need for a new prison in Terezín (Northwest Czechoslovakia). In March of 1940, he informed Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking Nazi official, that establishing a small fortress in Terezín would make guarding the prison easy and this prison would have a convenient location because it was not far from Prague. Heydrich approved and in June of 1940, the design of the new prison was put into action. In 1941, the prison was controlled by the Prague Gestapo

Adolf Eichmann was born on March 19th, 1906. In Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was highly involved with the creation and operation of the "final solution to the Jewish question". He produced the idea of the deportation of Jews into ghettos and helped to formulate and work the idea of labor camps also known as concentration camps, and went about concentrating Jews into these isolated areas with brutal efficiency. Adolf Eichmann took great pride in the role he played in the extermination of around

the badge was also known to be a badge of shame (Arsenault). All of the policy’s the film are historically accurate to what actually happened in Warsaw at the time. The policy was to be enforced on September 19, 1941 which was signed by signed by Reinhard

The Nuremberg trials were a series of legal procedures conducted by a committee of judges known as the International Military Tribune. These trials prosecuted multiple Nazi participants, whom which of these included Hermann Goering, during World War II on account of crime. A man of significant social and political ranking, Goering was the most trusted confidant of Hitler and chosen successor. Although Goering denied the crimes accused of him, substantial evidence corroborated the charges brought

administration of the ‘final solution.” Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office, exclaimed, “the evacuation of the Jews to the east has now emerged, with the prior permission of the Fuhrer, as a further possible solution instead of emigration.” The change in commitment highlights a significant change in the Jewish question, which until then had centered around forced emigration to the French colony in Madagascar. Insofar as Hitler’s role in the Holocaust, Heydrich provides evidence to suggest

there however. On September 1st 1939, the German army invaded Poland and successfully captured a large portion of its western region- an area filled with Jews. From the start, Jews were treated poorly by the Nazi’s, and on September 21st 1939, Reinhard Heydrich (head of the Reich main security) issued an order that all Jews were to be concentrated in separate areas within the city- a short term measure, yet a major progression in the Nazi’s attempt to contain and control the Jews. The First Ghetto (as

Once We Were Brothers, by Ronald H. Balson is a historical fiction novel about an elderly Jewish man named Ben Solomon who accuses Elliot Rosenzweig, a wealthy philanthropist in Chicago, of being Ben’s adopted brother, Otto Piatek, a former Nazi SS Officer. Ben turns to attorney Catherine Lockhart to help him bring Rosenzweig to justice. Ben later reveals Otto was abandoned as a young child and raised in Ben’s family, only to later betray them during the Nazi occupation. The novel both explains

Berlin in September of 1939. It was devised by the Gestapo and the Finanzministerium – The Finance Ministry - at Wilhelmstrasse 61. The plan was to produce British currency and release it to the public and watch the economy collapse. Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, labeled the plan as “einen grotesken Plan”, which is a grotesque plan. However, he had no authority to stop the plan as it was against Hitler’s Basic Order No.1. This meant no wartime plans were to be discussed outside of

Due to his efforts and work Eichmann garnered the attention of high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich. Eichmann was soon tasked by Heydrich with finding a viable solution to the “Jewish Problem.” He visited Palestine in 1937 in order investigate the plausibility of a large scale Jewish immigration to Palestine, and even suggested the Madagascar plan, wherein the

Nazi Organization As the onset of World War II approached, Adolf Hitler’s secret police began to systematically arrest enemies of the regime. As the regime evolved, so did its desire to control incarcerated political enemies. The concentration camps meticulously kept records of its prisoners: Ethnicity, who they were, why they were imprisoned, and other facts and figures. As the regime turned towards mass killings as its solution to the “Jewish Question”, Nazi’s began the systematic killing of