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World War II

Rudolf Höss: Commanding Auschwitz and Accounting for Its Crimes

Rudolf Höss helped build Auschwitz into a center of mass murder. His changing posts, postwar testimony and 1947 trial require careful distinctions.

EN5 min read
Description: Rudolf Höss: Commanding Auschwitz and Accounting for Its Crimes
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Rudolf Höss helped build Auschwitz into a center of mass murder. His changing posts, postwar testimony and 1947 trial require careful distinctions.

World War II

Theresienstadt’s False Paradise: How the Nazis Staged a Ghetto to Deceive the Red Cross

The Nazis staged Theresienstadt for a Red Cross visit and a later propaganda film. The article traces the preparations, forced performances and deportations concealed by those images.

EN10 min read
Description: Theresienstadt’s False Paradise: How the Nazis Staged a Ghetto to Deceive the Red Cross
Description

The Nazis staged Theresienstadt for a Red Cross visit and a later propaganda film. The article traces the preparations, forced performances and deportations concealed by those images.