T4 Program, also called T4 Euthanasia Program, Nazi German effort—framed as a euthanasiaprogram—to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderlypeople. Adolf Hitler initiated this program in 1939, and, while it was officially discontinued in 1941, killings continued covertly until the military defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. In October 1939, Adolf Hitler empowered his personal physician and the chief of the… Read more »
The Flensburg Government also known as the Flensburg Cabinet (Flensburger Kabinett), was the short-lived government of Nazi Germany during a period of several weeks around the end of World War II in Europe. The government was formed following the suicide of Adolf Hitler on 30 April during the Battle of Berlin, and headed by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk as the Reichspräsident and Leading… Read more »
The Afrika Korps, was a German military unit led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. It is most well known for its unlikely victories and for being one of the German units to never be accused of war crimes. The Afrika Korps entered the North African campaign to aid Germany’s Italian allies when the Italians suffered a series of defeats at the… Read more »
Przemyśl, Poland… July 26, 1942 – As a 51-year-old lawyer, Albert Battel fulfilled his German army-reserve duty in Przemyśl, Poland, serving as the adjutant to the local military commander, Major Max Liedtke . When the SS attempted to carry out the first liquidation of Przemyśl’s Jews, Battel and Liedtke ordered the army to block the bridge over… Read more »
Towards the end of World War II in 1944, Allied forces advanced from the west, while forces of the Soviet Union advanced from the east. Trapped in the middle, the SS – not wanting the world to know about the Holocaust – decided to abandon the Nazi concentration camps, moving or destroying evidence of the atrocities they had committed… Read more »