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  • 21Albert Widmann — Born June 8, 1912(1912 06 08) Stuttgart, German Empire Died December 24, 1986(1986 12 24) (aged 74) Stuttgart, West Germany …

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  • 22Auschwitz concentration camp — Auschwitz and Auschwitz Birkenau redirect here. For the town, see Oświęcim. Distinguish from Austerlitz. Or see Auschwitz (disambiguation) Auschwitz Concentration camp …

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  • 23AUM Shinrikyo — (Japanese; AUM Supreme Truth ) Japanese new religious movement founded by Asahara Shoko (b. 1955 as Matsumoto Chizuo) in 1987. It contained elements of Hinduism and Buddhism and was founded on the millenarian expectation of a series of disasters… …

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  • 24CAMPS — (Concentration and Extermination). The English language term concentration camp is commonly used to describe a wide number of places of internment created by Nazi Germany, which served a variety of functions and were called by different names:… …

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  • 25Christian Wirth — Nickname Christian the Terrible (German: Christian der Grausame), The Wild Christian …

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  • 26MEMORY — holocaust literature in european languages historiography of the holocaust holocaust studies Documentation, Education, and Resource Centers memorials and monuments museums film survivor testimonies Holocaust Literature in European Languages The… …

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  • 27Extermination camp — The Holocaust: Nazi German extermination and concentration camps in occupied Poland. Extermination camps (or death camps) were camps built by Nazi Germany during the Second World War (1939–45) to systematically kill millions by gassing and… …

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  • 28THE EVENTS — introduction European Jewry in the Early 1930s Germany in the Early 1930s the expansion of the reich …

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  • 29AUSCHWITZ — (Oświęcim), Nazi Germany s largest concentration and extermination camp. The word Auschwitz has become a metaphor for the Holocaust in general, and the phrase after Auschwitz has come to signify the great historical rupture wrought by the murder… …

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  • 30CHELMNO — (Ger. Kulmhof), Nazi extermination camp on the Ner River 37 mi. (60 km.) west of lodz , the first site used for the murder of Jews by gassing as part of the German Final Solution to the Jewish question. The gassing of Jews began on December 8,… …

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