Emil Haussmann (11 October 1910 – 31 July 1947 in Nuremberg) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was part of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D, which perpetrated the Holocaust in occupied Ukraine. Haussmann was charged with crimes against humanity in 1947 in the Einsatzgruppen Trial. He committed suicide while in prison. Emil Haussmann, born 11-10-1910 in Ravensburg, was the son of… Read more »
The following is an excerpt from the testimony of a former soldier and guard at the Rhine-Meadows camps, Martin Brech . The Rheinwiesenlager or Rhine meadow camps, were a group of 19 camps built in the Allied occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. “In October 1944,… Read more »
Erwin von Witzleben was born in Breslau, on 4th December, 1881. He joined the German army in March 1901 as a second lieutenant in the 7th Grenadier Regiment. On the outbreak of the First World War von Witzleben he was appointed Adjutant of the 19th Reserve Brigade. He served on the Western Front where he won… Read more »
German boxer and later Fallschirmjäger, Max Schmeling returned to Germany in triumph on the June 23, 1936 voyage of the Hindenburg, after his victory over American boxer Joe “Barrow” Louis. On May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg designed by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, burst into flames 200 feet over its intended landing spot at New Jersey’s Lakehurst Naval Air… Read more »
Lebensborn. “Fount of Life”, was an SS-initiated, state-supported, registered association in Nazi Germany with the goal of raising the birth rate of “Aryan” children via extramarital relations of persons classified as “racially pure and healthy” based on Nazi racal hygiene and health ideology. , Lebensborn encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women, and mediated adaption of these children by likewise “racially pure and healthy” parents, particularly… Read more »