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The German New World Order
The “Final Solution”
Wannsee Dachau
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Nurnberg LawsSeptember 1935
KrystalnachtNovember 1938
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Nurnberg Laws
Jewish loss of German citizenship Jewish expulsion from German civil service Removal of Jews from certain occupations Racial classification – “Mischling” – “Ahnenpass”
Aryan Family Tree Record Four Grandparents – Aryan ? / Jewish?
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Nazi Certificate of Racial Background
Nurnberg Laws create an entire National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) Bureaucracy = “The Party”
In the end will prove counter-productive to the German war effort!
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Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers
Estimates indicate that approximately 150,000 German Jews (full or mixed) served in the military in World War II
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Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers
Those who made significant contributions to Germany and / or German war industry
Albert Speer (Armaments Minister)Erhard Milch (Deputy Luftwaffe Commander)Willy Messerschmitt (Aircraft Designer)
Erhard Milch – Jewish father(Hitler signed German Blood Certificate)
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Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers
Notice their ranks Notice their combat awards Many thought of themselves
as German before being Jewish!
Many were often the best soldiers in their units!
1940 Discharge order of half-Jews
1940 Non-Jewish Ancestry Oath
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German Leadership and the Concentrations Camps
Heinrich Himmler / 1900 – 1945
Became Munich’s Chief of Police “Protective Custody” Eliminate opponents of the Third
Reich through intimidation
One of the individuals most responsible for the Holocaust
Physically frail – did not fight in WWI –took part in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
Worked as a chicken farmer in the 1920’s while a member of the Nazi Party
Joined the new SS (protection) in 1925Rose to the top - built into a major organization – Modeled on the Jesuits!! (Himmler had been a devout Catholic!)
Death in the British Zone - Poison
Establishment of the Concentration CampsFirst used by the British in the
Boer War 1899-1902
Created by the Nazi Party to house political prisoners, undesirables and “anti-socials”
First camps: Dachau (Munich)(March 1933) Oranienburg (Berlin)
Initially used as Labor Camps for political “re-indoctrination” back into German society At start it is run by the S.A. (Sturm Abteilung) Will be taken over by the S.S. (Schutzstaffel) Dachau will be training center for SS camp
personnel
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Dachau, Germany(Outside Munich)
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Established March 1933 for political prisoners Communists Academics Trade Unionists Clergy “Racial inferiors”
Built on grounds of World War I ammunition factory
Prototype Camp (for training SS personnel for other camps)
Work camp with numerous sub-camps
Held notable political prisoners: Martin Niemoller (Pastor) Kurt von Schuschnigg (Austrian Leader) Edouard Daladier (French Leader) Leon Blum (French Leader) Franz Halder (German General) Hjalmar Schacht (Reichsbank President)
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Central camp for religious prisoners
Nearly 3,000 Catholic priests from
European nations were imprisoned here
(bishops and a cardinal!)
Gas chambers never used / ovens were!
Supervised over 100 sub-camps throughout
southern Germany
Responsible for nearly 26,000 deaths
Dachau, Germany(Outside Munich)
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Specific barracks for priests only (fenced off) 1,034 priests died (868 Polish / 94 German) Conducted medical experiments on the priests Largest number of priests were from Poland 447 German and Austrian priests Many German priests had defied the “pulpit law”
and spoken out against the Nazi government Later priests used in office / hospital positions Celebrated the sacraments under trying conditions
Dachau and the Catholic Church
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Blessed Father Rupert Mayer, SJ1876 - 1945
First German chaplain awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class (WWI) for bravery
Lost left leg in Romania in 1916 “Apostle of Munich” Familiar with and known to all early Nazi’s Initially supported Hitler, shortly thereafter
counseled against joining Nazi party First responder to the Beer Hall Putsch
casualties (his church was around the corner!)
In and out of concentration camps Spent five years at Ettal Monastery in WWII Died while saying Mass 1 Nov 1945 “The Lord, The Lord, The Lord” Beatified by Pope (St.) John Paul II 1987
Life in the Concentration Camps
Forced Slave Labor Medical Experiments
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Buchenwald, GermanyOpened July 1937 - Outside Weimar
Incredible brutalityLamp shades = human skinPrisoners = shrunken heads Accounted for 56,000 deaths
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(See Handouts!)
Patton / Bradley
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120th Evacuation / Station HospitalU.S. Army - Unit Historical Report
(See my website for complete copy)
“In Through the Gate Out Through the Chimney”
Flossenberg, GermanyOpened May 1938, near Czech border
Estimated to be responsible for 30,000 deaths
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Natzweiler, (Struthof), France(opened May 1941 – near Strasbourg)
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Estimated to be responsible for 25,000 deaths
Served as a transit and work campOnly Concentration in France!
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Mittelbau – DoraOpened August 1943 - Nordhausen, Germany
Slave labor camp / network of camps Central Germany / Harz Mountains Assembling the German Vengeance
weapons (V-1 / V-2) Built into the mountain (avoid air
raids) by concentration camp labor Underground tunnels stretched over
two miles throughout the complex Operational 1943 – 1945 Began missile production in 1944 Estimated to have had 20,000 deaths
from various causes
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Thierenstadt, Czech Republic(Gavrilo Princip 1918) (Ghetto created June 1940)
Transit Camp for Czech & Austrian Jews
Held Dutch, Danish, German Jews
Special Category Jews were held here with their families
Functioned as both a ghetto and concentration camp
Responsible for 33,000 deaths
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Thierenstadt, Czech Republic – July 2014
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Sonderkommando / Einsatzgruppen(special killing squads)
Went throughout the occupied areas of Eastern Europe
Purpose to eliminate the Jewish populations
Problems with methods of killing – will finally result in the creation of the death camps and more efficient death with poisons – “Zyklon – B”
German invasion of Russia June 1941
Goal will be to make each occupied territory “Juden Frei” (free of Jews)
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Wannsee ConferenceThe “Jewish Question”
Held in the Suburbs of Berlin
Propose the Final Solution
Six “Death Camps” had begun to be established in December 1941.
Five located in General Government of Poland Belzec Chelmo Maidanek Sobibor Treblinka
Auschwitz – Birkenau(Polish area incorporated into Germany)Over 1 million will die in Auschwitz!
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20 January 1942
Heydrich Eichmann
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Auschwitz – Birkenau ComplexConsists of three camps
Auschwitz I = Former Polish Army barracks
Auschwitz II = Death camp Auschwitz III = Buna
Chemical Industrial Complex
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Zyklon-B
Death Camp = 1.3 million+ ! Some worked as labor until death Trains arrived from all over Europe People separated = life / death Gas chambers / Ovens (24,000 daily!) Population of camp - 70 – 80,000 ave.
Auschwitz – Birkenau Complex
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I.G. Farben Chemical plant
Synthetic rubber / oil production
Employed 12,000 prisoners
Auschwitz III
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Action T-4 Program“Mercy Killing”
Name = Meeting at Tiergarten Strasse 4, Berlin September 1939
Holocaust was not only Jews
(In-voluntary sterilization = 300,000 - Germany)
Euthanasia Program(15 January 1940 – 24 August 1941)
Lebens un Wert (“Not Worth Living”)
Mentally Ill Patients Physically Disabled / Handicapped Disabled Newborns Chronically Ill / Injured Badly Wounded soldiers
(German and others)
Dr. Karl BrandtHitler’s personal
physician
1938 Poster
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Total Number of Deaths at the Six Action T-4 Euthanasia Centers15 January 1940 – 24 August 1941
Bernburg 8,601
Brandenburg 9,770
Grafeneck 9,839
Hadamar 10,072
Hartheim 18,269
Sonnenstein 13,720
Total: 70,273
Majority were either Germans or Austrians! Hitler’s Signed Order
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Action T-4“Victims”
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Hartheim Castle, Austria – July 2014
Gas Chamber
Crematory Ovens
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Hadamar, GermanyJuly 2014 Original “Bus Barn”
To the Gas Chamber!
Approximately 10,000 Died in this “Mental Hospital”
Post-War Interrogation of Staff
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Bishop Clemens von Galen (Blessed – 2005)
Munster, Germany (1933)“The Lion of Munster”
Began speaking out against Nazi’s 1934 Defends civil disobedience against Nazi’s To Rome in 1937 – “Mit Brennender Sorge”
(“with burning anxiety”)
July – August 1941
Speaks out for three Sunday’s Against the Nazi T-4 Euthanasia program Condemns Nazi administration Sermon reprinted all over Germany Copies make it to Allies – Propagandize Von Galen threatened with arrest Hitler backs down – fears rebellion T-4 Program suspended
(operates later through camps)
Remains in Munster – not jailed!1946 to Rome = CardinalDies in March 1946
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“We must expect, therefore, that the poor defenseless
patients are, sooner or later, going to be killed. Why? . . .
because in the judgement of some official body, on the
decision of some committee, they have become “unworthy
to live", because they are classed as “unproductive
members of the national community". The judgment is that
they can no longer produce any goods: they are like an old
piece of machinery which no longer works, like an old
horse which has become incurably lame, like a cow which
no longer gives any milk. What happens to an old piece of
machinery? It is thrown on the scrap heap. What happens
to a lame horse, an unproductive cow? I will not pursue the
comparison to the end — so fearful is its appropriateness
and its illuminating power . . . If it is once admitted that
men have the right to kill “unproductive" fellowmen —
even though it is at present applied only to poor and
defenseless mentally ill patients — then the way is open
for the murder of all unproductive men and women: the
incurably ill, those disabled in industry or war. The way is
open, indeed, for the murder of all of us, when we become
old and infirm and therefore unproductive".
Excerpt: 3 August 1941
Sermon
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In Summation = The Holocaust
Impacted every country in Europe Refugees / victims Jews / Christians Major change in population demographics Magnitude of issue never fully recognized until after
the war
Jewish Deaths: 5.8 millionPoland : 3 millionRussia / Ukraine: 1.3 millionEastern Europe: 1 millionGermany: 210,000Western Europe: 400,000
Other Deaths: 5 – 11 millionGypsiesPolish / Soviet citizensReligious / Political OpponentsDisabled / Infirmed / Homosexuals
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Never Forget!Yad Vashem,
Israel
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Two Excellent Sources for a Visual Representation of the Wannsee conference
In German w/ English subtitles
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World War II
German Counterfeiting
The “Hidden” Story of the
Concentration Camps
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“Operation Bernhard”
The £5.00
Note
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Textile Engineer Lost Job – Depression Joined S.S.
– Technical Services
1945 – Goes in Hiding1946 – Held by British1947 – Held by French1948 – Released1949 – Businessman 1989
Hardest part to counterfeit –The Seal of Britannia
Bernhard Kruger
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Searched Entire S.S. Concentration Camp SystemUsed 142 “Professionals” (In-mates) – Experts Printers Engravers Bankers Paper Manufacturers Ink / Dye Manufacturers
“Block 19”
Sachsenhausen – Outside Berlin
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“Block 19”Fenced off from the
rest of the camp
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Printing Plant of the Bank of
England
Sir Kenneth PeppiattChief Cashier - Signature
Bank of England
US Army Post World War II Counter-Intelligence Reports
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Majority of £5 notes recovered from Lake Toplitz in 1959 – as Late as 1957 some
counterfeit bills still in circulationIn 1957 Bank of England issues new £5
and larger notes in blue ink to defeat the counterfeit bills still in circulation
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Allied armies advancing Russians in the East Americans in the West
Evacuated in April 1945
To Mauthausen, Austria
Sent to Redl Zipf, Austria to Ebensee Camp
To mountains and death*(*Saved by the Americans )
8,965,000 Bank Notes Produced
£134,000,000 ($2.6 billion today!)
Collector’s Items – High value
Lake Toplitz, Austria
Counterfeit £5 notes used to pay off spy’s, ransom, bribes, black-market
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Allied armies advancing Russians in the East Americans in the West
Evacuated in April 1945
To Mauthausen, Austria
Sent to Redl Zipf, AustriaTo Ebensee Camp
To mountains and death*(*Saved by the Americans )
8,965,000 Bank Notes Produced
£134,000,000 ($2.6 billion today!)
Collector’s Items – High value
Lake Toplitz, Austria
£5 notes used to pay off spy’s, ransom, bribes, black-market
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Lake Toplitz Austria - 1945 / 1959300’ – 400’ DeepDe-oxygenated water
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BBC Series 1980’s
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Adolf Burger – Typographer
£5 Counterfeit Note – 2008
“Counterfeiters”
movie based on his life
Book - “The Devil’s Workshop”
