Middle-aged family men of working, lower-middle class background from the city of Hamburg

-          Considered to be too old to be of use to the German Army, they had been drafted into the order police

-          Commander – Major Wilhelm Trapp

-         November 28, 1940 the battalion took up guard duty around Lodz which had been sealed seven months earlier by a barbed wire fence, 160,000 Jews

o   Battalion was to shoot any Jew who ignored the posted warnings and came too close to the fence

-          Men from the battalion were involved in various phases of the Hamburg deportations

-          June 1942 assigned another tour of duty in Poland

-          11 officers, 5 administrative officials, 486 noncommissioned officers and men

53 year old career policeman

WW1 Veteran

Recipient of the Iron Cross First Class

Battallion 101 commander

Sentenced to death at trial

Village in Poland

1800 Jews called this village home

Massacre - July 13, 1942

Working aged men were to be sent to work camps

Women, Children, Elderly, disabled - shot on the spot

Battalion 101 Platoons were to surround the village and shoot anyone trying to escape

June 1942 members of the Czech underground assassinated Heydrich, in response the Germans destroyed this town - near Prague

Murdered 199 men as well as women and children

Remaining people were to be removed for Germanization of the area

Summer / Fall 1942

Hitler instructed the German 6th army under General Von Paulus to take this city

By mid November they had captured a majority of the city, but the tables soon turned

Hitler was advised to withdrawl but he did not

January 31, 1943 German southern contingent surrendered and a few days later the northern contingent surrendered

Soviets took 90,000 German POW

Hundreds dead on both sides

TURNING POINT IN THE WAR!

Fall 1943

Germans and their accomplices massacred 42,000 Jews

Relied heavily on mass shootings

"Jew Hunts" German Order Police and Einsazgruppen worked with local collaborators to kill as many Jews as possible

December 1941

Near Lodz

First killing center

Used gas vans and gas chambers, but told prisoners they were simply going to shower

"Special Unit" of Jewish prisoners that were kept alive to handle the bodies and bury prisoners

Did not last long, they were killed off and replaced with new prisoners

Some tried to escape, so the Germans ended up chaining thier legs

August 1943

Prisoners Rebelled and set the camp on fire and seized guns from the Germans

German soldiers were killed

1,500 prisoners were killed

After Revolt the remaining prisoners were killed and the camp was shut down

Built winter 1941

Labor camp, Killing center

Modeled after Dachau in Germany

July 1941 - Germans brought Soviet POW to Majdanek

Gas chambers built in 1942

November 1943 - Guards killed 17,000 prisoners with machine gun fire

200,000 total killed at the camp

125,000 Jews killed

First commandent of Auschwitz

Had an affair with an Auschwitz prisoner then had her gassed

Reccomended the use of Zyklon B for gassing rather than carbon monoxide

1946 - Arrested

1947 - trial, sentenced to death and hanged at Auschwitz

Hitlers minister of armaments from 1942

Architect

Designed Nazi monuments and the parade grounds at Nuremberg

Increased armament production dramatically through slave labor

Sentenced to 20 years in prison

Codename for Hitler's Eastern Front military headquarters

Location of the 1944 failed assassination by Claus von Stauffenberg

Most famous rescuer in Hungary

Swedish businessman who rescued 100,000 Jews from deportation

Used money raised from the Jewish community in the US to setup safehouses, issued Swedish passports, bribe officials

Rescued Jews from transports to Auschwitz

Fall 1944

Germans began to evacuate camps due to losing control in the war

Himmler ordered officials to send the prisoners on these

Scientist and SS Doctor

Medical Experiments on dwarfs, twins, and other prisoners

Killed most of his subjects

"Angel of Death"

1945-1946

Trial of 21 major war criminals

Trial of a handful of Nazi German organizations

Some acquitted

Some convicted, some sentenced to death

Winter 1942

Catholic students at the University of Munich

Leaders - Hans and Sophie Sholl

Printed a series of leaflets decrying the crimes of Nazism

February 1943 - Last issue proteseting the moral destruction of the German Youth

Executed soon after

System to identify undesirabels

Primarily used colored triangles that were sewn onto prisoners jackets and shirts

Red - Political Prisoners

Green - Habitual Criminals

Blue - Emmigrants

Pink - Homosexuals and sex offenders

Purple - Religious dissidents

Black - Asocials

Jews that managed to escape from ghettos or camps that formed these fighting units

Hid in the forests

Able to derail German trains and kill over 3,000 German soldiers

Plan developed in detail of the German's intent to take over the east

Drafted 1941, Theodor Schieder

Called for Germans to settle in vast areas of -- Europe to help grow the Aryan Race

Demanded expulsion of current inhabitants - to be sent to less desirable places, Jews to be eliminated all together

Intended on taking children away from parents considered undesirable to contribute to the fast population growth they desired

1943

Nazi planners decided to rid the remaining Jews of Berlin and arrested them, locked them in a building on this street to be eventually deported / killed

Wives of the men gathered in the street to protest and demanded their release

Sympathizers also joined, and soon several thousand people were protesting

Hitler had to let the men go because he could not kill the protesters as Germans would then also be killed

Best known Jewish survivor

Wrote the book Night

Codename for D-Day

June 6, 1944

Allies attacked Germans at Normandy

Lawyer

Organized a group of anti-Nazi friends that met during the war to make plans for a new, democratic Germany

Arrested in 1944, hanged a year later

High ranking General Staff Officer

July 20, 1944 planted a bomb in the Wolf's Lair

Bomb barely injured Hitler

Captured and shot

September 1944

Full deployment ordered by Hitler of every man 16-60 as one of his last efforts to win the war

Established by Franklin D Roosevelt

US executive agency created to aid civilians from Nazi / Axis powers

Credited with rescuing 200,000 Jews from Nazi occupied countries

Concordat with the Vatican

In exchange for recognition of his regime's legitimacy, Hitler agreed to respect the rights of Catholics and the Catholic church in his country

Pope agreed to this because he thought it would aid in his fight of communism throughout Europe

Proposed by Franklin D Roosevelt June 1943 to provide relief to areas liberated from Axis powers after the war

Created Displaced Person's camps and by 1946 150,000 Jews were living in the camps