Kraft durch Freude
- Swastikas by the Seaside Peter Monteath
(Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Adelaide,
Australia), discusses the origins and fate of a huge Nazi holiday camp at
Prora planned to invigorate the German workforce by means of `Strength
through Joy'. §
Lazarettschiff D
(Wilhelm Gustloff) By
Jason Pipes.
A well set out, and
designed timeline of the KDF ship eventually used as a hospital ship,
then sunk off the east Prussian coast with a loss over 9,000 on board in
1945 by a Soviet submarine. For details of the sinking see
Hashude: an experiment in Nazi 'asocial' policy. (controlled housing
units for those considered marginal or eugenically inferior to the pure
German model)Dr Lisa Pine article in History
TodayJuly, 1995).
For more
on the Eugenics programme see the section below). §
Nazism in the classroom Concise, but useful article by Dr Lisa Pine
from a History Today mini series on Nazi society. §
Life in the
Third Reichby Henry Metelmann. Article in New Perspective
March (1998).The writer,
brought to Britain as a prisoner of war in 1946, was 11 years old when
Hitler became Chancellor. He outlines his father's reaction to Nazism and
his own attitudes and involvement in the Hitler Youth. Early call up
followed by service in occupied France and South Russia ended at the
battle of Stalingrad, in defeat and capture.
Nazi Youth RebelsTom
Neuhaus looks at the subversive young Germans known as Swing Youth
who refused to have their hobbies and tastes dictated to them by the
Nazis and provoked the regime by their devotion to American and
British music and fashion.
From History Today. Free access but requires one-off registration
(This is worthwhile as there are other free access articles)
Emigration From Germany
Small but interesting site to Jewish emigration out of nazi Germany.
Good visuals including images of the passes issued by the nazi
authorities for would be emigrants.
The Madagascar Plan The Nazi
plan to move Europe's Jews to the African island of Madagascar
The Yellow Jewish BadgeThe history of the armbands and yellow Stars of David which labelled
the Jews.
Text of the Wannsee Protocol
This
site has the minutes of the meeting between Nazi officials on January 20,
1942 where they discussed the process of the Final Solution.
Holocaust Glossary Are you confused about some of the terms relating
to the Holocaust? Since the Holocaust vocabulary was formulated from many
different languages, understanding these terms can be difficult. Here's a
glossary to help you.
Holocaust Memorial Museum New York
This lavish site provides a mass of information as well as temporary web
"exhibitions". The downside is the time many pages take to
load......
Shoa.de: For German speakers: excellent site to all aspects of the Holocaust.
Lodz Ghetto Throughout Europe,
Jews were crowded into ghettos before being systematically murdered in the
death camps. Follow the history of the ghetto in Lodz, Poland.
Galicia Jewish MuseumSite of the Krakow museum which exists to commemorate
the victims of the Holocaust &
to celebrate the Jewish culture of Galicia.
Anne Frank
House. Well presented. Choose your language (click on top right of
the opened page)
Josef Mengele site
with a focus on his victims and life.§
Nazi Gold, Jewish Accounts, and Swiss Banks
For several months, the controversy over Switzerland's role in World War
II has raged in the media, among people, and between nations.
Surviving the Firestorm English language article with extracts and
facsimiles outlining the survival of the diaries. From Der Spiegel
The Diaries of Victor Klemperer:
discussion by Susie Ehrmann, Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research
Centre, Melbourne Australia. She explores two key questions. Firstly,
she asks why did many German Jews hesitate for so long, too long, before
leaving? They had the luxury of six years, from 1933 to 1939 and even up
to 1941, before all doors closed. Why did approximately one-third wait
and perish? Secondly, she uses Klemperer's observations to assess
Goldhagen’s thesis that German civilian society was deeply, and
uniformly, and virulently anti-Semitic throughout the 1930’s.§
Anne Frank (1929-1945) A young
girl who hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust, Anne Frank has touched
many who have read her famous diary. This is a page with links to many
Anne Frank materials.
Anne
Frank Channel See the only existing film footage of Anne Frank,
made during the wedding of her neighbour on 22 July 1941. Anne Frank
is seen briefly leaning out of the upstairs window of her house in
Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only
time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film.
Personal
histories from New York Holocaust Museum. Well set out in a theme
wall
Auschwitz survivors, 60
Years on. Witness accounts from the Guardian Review of (Jewish & non
Jewish) survivors today (Jan 2005). Puts a real human dimension and
context to the history. Click for each account:
Leon Greenman
The first thing you notice about Leon Greenman's large but shabby
terraced house in Ilford is that it has mesh shutters. He had them put
up 10 years ago, soon after the National Front threw bricks through
the windows.....
Barbara Stimler
now lives in an immaculate bungalow in Stanmore, north London. "All my
life I wanted to have a nice home," she says, "because I lost my home
when I was 12 years old."
Anita Lasker Wallfisch
is a cellist. Music is her life; music also saved her life: she played
in the women's orchestra in Auschwitz.
Mayer Hersh a Polish Jew, is 78. After the war, he
settled in Manchester and worked as a tailor, a high-class tailor.