Rudolf Höss served as the first commandant of Auschwitz and played a central role in developing the camp into a major site of persecution and mass murder. His later assignments and return…
Irma Grese was among the camp personnel tried by a British military court in 1945 in the proceedings commonly known as the Belsen trial. The case considered crimes at Bergen-Belsen and…
The Nazi propaganda film made at Theresienstadt presented selected scenes of work, culture and social activity inside a ghetto. That appearance depended on control over what could be…