Holocaust: Definition and Facts

Holocaust: Definition and Facts

The Holocaust was one of the worst war crimes ever committed. Learn more about Anne Frank, Kristallnacht, Nazi concentration camps and other Holocaust facts.

the Greatest Crime in History

The round-ups of Jews went so easily that a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, remarked: "The transports run so smoothly that it is a pleasure to see." Deportees were dispatched to locations in Eastern Europe and told they were to be resettled. In fact, most were murdered within hours of arrival, generally in gas chambers. During the course of the war 107,000 Dutch Jews were sent to camps, mostly Auschwitz and Sobibor. Only 5,000 su…

“This Was The Führer’s Order”: Chilling New Testimony Links Hitler Directly To Holocaust Killings

In a revelation that may reshape historians’ understanding of the Holocaust’s origins, nearly 800 newly unearthed recordings and transcripts of post-World War II interrogations have been published, including a staggering confession from one of the Nazis’ most notorious war criminals. Among the digital files released Saturday by the Hoover Institution is a recording of SS officer Bruno Streckenbach, a man long suspected of overseeing some of the …

'Führer's order': Historic Nazi recording confirms Hitler ordered Holocaust

Approximately 800 new digital recordings and transcripts of Nazi criminals from after World War II were revealed Saturday, including dramatic and disturbing testimonies that shed light both on Nazi methods during the war and Holocaust and on their escape routes. Among the recordings, published on the Hoover Institution website, is one from SS officer Bruno Streckenbach in which he admits that Adolf Hitler indeed gave explicit instructions for im…

The Führer gave specific instructions for implementing the "Final Solution."

As part of the hundreds of recordings of Nazi criminals exposed on the "Hoover" website, there is also that of Bruno Strickenbach, an SS officer, in which he said about the mass murder of Jews: "This is the order from the Fuhrer" • Thomas Weber, professor of history: "First-person testimony that the lies happened"