The murderous arrogance of Nazi racial
        pride

The Nazis move to implement the "final
        solution" to the "Jewish problem"

The textual material on page below is drawn directly from my work A Moral History of Western Society © 2024, Volume Two, pages 377-386.

Hitler's Office at the Reichs Chancellery - Berlin

Hitler at a New Year's reception in the Chancellery - Berlin

The terrace at Hitler's Berghof residence at Berchtesgaden, Bavaria

The Great Room at Hitler's Berghof residence

Hitler eating with his personal physician, Prof. Theodor Morell, and the wife of Gauleiter Albert Forster at the Berghof

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun at the Berghof
Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

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THE MURDEROUS ARROGANCE OF NAZI RACIAL PRIDE

Josef Geobbels - Nazi Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
National Archives

Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler (center)
confers with SS security chief Reinhard Heydrich (standing - left) 

A German teacher lauds his students for their perfect Aryan or Nordic features (none of which Hitler possessed!)

An SS doctor examines a group of kidnapped Polish children judged to be "racially valuable" and ready for adoption by German parents

A German woman being punished for having sexual relations with an "inferior" Polish man; the standard punishment for her companion was death

Nazi Concentration Camps

Labor-camp inmates at work on an airfield near Hamburg
Peter Hunter - Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, Amsterdam

A Belgian forced-laborer in the German Siemans plant in Berlin - August 1943
German Bundesarchiv 183-R46093

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That racial arrogance was directed particularly against all Jews

Berlin Jews forced to wear the Star of David - late 1941

The Jewish Ghetto of Munkacs, Hungary

Anne Frank (2nd from the left) and playmates - 1937
She would die at age 15 in Bergen-Belsen camp; three of her playmates would survive the Holocaust; her diary kept during her family's hiding in Amsterdam (1942-1944) would be found, published and widely read after the war.
Ilse Lederman

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THE NAZIS MOVE TO IMPLEMENT THE "FINAL SOLUTION" TO THE "JEWISH PROBLEM"

Adolf Eichman - in charge of the extermination of Polish Jews (Hitler sincerely believed that history would remember him well for having rid the human race of the Jewish "cancer")

Jews hurrying to an assembly point for deportation

Jewish victims of an execution line a square in Cracow, while other Jews await deportation

Cracow Jews boarding a boxcar for deportation

Women and children arriving at Auschwitz

Inmates at Sachsenhausen forced to live among the bodies of fellow inmates

A Buchenwald SS guard with inmates being tortured

A prisoner who chose suicide at the electrified fence at Mauthausen

Jews being rounded up after the collapse of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto uprising in May of 1943 by the cruel ghetto guard Josef Blösche (right) [termed "Frankenstein"] who helped provoke the revolt

Jews who survived the Warsaw uprising being rounded up – May 1943

One of 7 gas chambers at Majdanek camp in Poland
where 1.3 million prisoners were put to death

Naked Jewish women and their children awaiting "showers" that will send them to their deaths – along with 900,000 other Jews at Treblinka

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Go on to the next section:  The War in North Africa and Italy

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  Miles H. Hodges