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Nazi use of the term "evacuation" to mean "mass slaughter"
I don't like to fear-monger. I don't want to make people think this genocide could get much worse, but as someone with some knowledge of the Nazis and the Holocaust I am compelled to say that this "evacuation" speak is straight-up Holocaust language.
After Israel forced Gazans to flee to Rafah, Netanyahu is now ordering the "evacuation" of Palestinians from Rafah. This was after Israel refused a ceasefire.
The Wannsee Conference was held in 1942 to address the "Jewish Question" (plans for genocide). The Holocaust, the mass murder of Jews, disabled people, Romani, Poles, Ukrainians, LGBT people, Jehovah's Witnesses, communists, and other groups the Nazis considered inferior, was already ongoing, but 1942 was when the plans for huge-scale massive death was planned. The mass extermination, often termed "evacuation" of European Jews was planned at this conference.
Link to the Wannsee Conference minutes, translated into English. They are a summary, not verbatim, so are quite short. Keyword search "evacuation" and "evacuate": http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/Wannsee/wanseeminutes.html
Another source talking about the language of "evacuation" used to mean "extermination" in Nazi Germany:
"Evacuated to Death: The Lexicon, Concept, and Practice of Mobility in the Nazi Deportation and Killing Machine" https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1633904
Quote from the article's author, Peter Adey:
"As we have seen, evacuation was used inconsistently as a set of mobile practices. Death was almost always close behind, but it is important that we consider that the purpose and process also bound evacuation together with its different versions. The practices employed by the Nazi evacuations of the Jews to killing centers ran in parallel to the evacuation measures identified for [non-Jewish] Germans."
Thus Netanyahu can speak of evacuating Jewish Israelis and evacuating Palestinians and mean hugely different things.
It's a difficult watch and perhaps not useful viewing at this time, but the English-language dramatization of the Wannsee Conference "Conspiracy" explores this quite a lot, repeatedly having the Nazi leaders use the phrase "evacuate" in place of "mass slaughter." (I have a copy if anyone wants--be warned it is a very difficult watch.)
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The Iasi Pogrom
The titles of this post is “The Iasi Pogrom” , but I am starting with a different event. It is important to put the Iasi Pogrom in a wider context. It will be a long read, but it is such an important subject that I feel compelled to be as detailed as possible.
Approximately 7 months after the Iasi pogrom, on January 20 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office , summons a…
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the dining room at Haus am Wannsee, where Heydrich convened the meeting that drew up Final Solution, in January, 1942.
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A scene from "Conspiracy" (HBO).
#holocasut#world war II#world war two#world war#jews#jjejwish#movie#movies#film#films#history#germany#german#wannsee#Wannsee conference#wannsee konferenz#berlin#hbo#kenneth branagh#stanley tucci#adolf eichmann#eichmann#heydrich#Youtube
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who was gonna tell me that the stuipid " i think we're gonna have to kill this guy steven" thing's full comic had hitler in it . also i'm gonna draw it with dr heiter and dook larue
#text#when i'm not actively gojng insane over a hyperfixation i'm trying to be productive#therefore i am actively trying to Avoid hyperfixation content which includes ww2 and Hitler#so i was actually being productive and working on a project and suddenly i wanted to find out where that meme originated from#and then i saw hitler and suddenly my finger slipped and i was researching the wannsee conference#i mean not complaining too hard because researching ww2 is literally the Least not-productive thing i could be doing
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The Wannsee Conference, Where 15 High-Ranking Nazi Party and German Government Officials Gathered at a Villa in a Berlin Suburb to Discuss and Coordinate the Implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” January 20, 1942.
Image: The villa Am Großen Wannsee 56–58, where the Wannsee Conference was held, is now a memorial and museum. (Public Domain)
On this day in history, the…
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I just finished watching Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) and Conspiracy (2001) back to back.
While i get that that the latter is a lot more accessible to american audiences, i never really got into it. It's just so concerned with casting good and bad guys for the audience to relate to, constantly mentions and compares things to americas political situation and modern us values, and it has a surprisingly large amount of clumsy exposition.
While the performances of the actors are really good, the acting style favoured by this picture is is very dramatic and, in it's manners VERY british. I suppose that just reads as european to americans.
But the dramatic deliveries, the pregnant pauses, they take so much away from what made that historical event so terrifyng. These people argued, in a business meeting, about the beurocratic, legal and economic realitys of the final solution, that was already in progress.
The Wannseekonferenz (1984) gives you limited information at the beginning, but immidietly creates an atmosphere of comradery, where the only issue they have with each other, is wagering whose rank and jurisdiction matters more. This is continued in the meeting itself; it's a mind numbing logistics discussion where half the fights are just about who has what jurisdiction and everyone just trying to make it so their personal jobs will look especially well done.
It's only as the meeting progresses, and the audience slowly get's the subject and the extent of what is being discussed, that the horror sets in. Only then do they introduce the more personal stakes of some characters, only then some phylosophical questions enter in the form of law discussions.
I'm certain the Conspiracy is a lot more entertaining to casually watch, but if you are really interested what "banality of evil" can look like, i'd highly recommend Die Wannseekonferenz. It's currently on Youtube.
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#die wannseekonferenz (1984)#The Wannsee Conference (1984)#Conspiracy (2001)#Conspiracy#german tv film#nazi germany#ww2#historical drama#Youtube
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An updated (April 3, 2024 7:48am pst) list of WW2 movies and TV shows in chronological order
thought out WW2
-(Imitation Game 2014)
-(The Book Thief 2013)
-(The Zookeeper’s Wife 2017)
-(The Pianist 2002)
1937
October 26, 1937 Defence of Sihang Warehouse (The Eight Hundred 2020)
December 13, 1937 Nanjing Massacre
- (John Rabe 2009)
- (The Flowers of War 2011)
1938
Fall of 1938 (Munich – The Edge of War 2022)
1939
Summer 1939 (Six Minutes to Midnight 2020)
September 3, 1939 King George VI first wartime speech (King’s Speech 2010)
September 17, 1939, Soviet Union Invitation of Poland (The Way Back 2010)
November 30, 1939 Soviet Union invades Finland (The Winter War 1989)
1940
April 9, 1940 Operation Weserübung
-(April 9th [movie] 2015)
-(King’s Choice 2016)
-(Narvik 2022)
-(War Sailors 2023)
April 27, 1940 (Into the White 2011)
June 4, 1940
-Churchill gives “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech (Darkest Hour 2017)
-Dunkirk Evaluation (Dunkirk 2017)
July 10-October 31, 1940 Battle of Britain (Battle of Britain 1969)
1941
May 1941 (Call to Spy 2019)
June 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa
-(Fortress of War [The Brest Fortres 2010)
-(Defiance 2008)
September 8, 1941, Siege of Leningrad begins.
-(Battle of Leningrad [Saving Leningrad] 2019)
-(Leningrad 2009)
October 1941 Battle of Moscow (The Last Frontier [The Final Stand] 2020)
October 1941 Battle of Sevastopol (Battle for Sevastopol 2015)
December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970)
December 8, 1941 Japan invades Shanghai International Settlement (Empire of the Sun 1987)
1942
January 20, 1942, Wannsee Conference (Conspiracy 2001)
February 1942 Battle of the Atlantic (Greyhound 2020)
February 1942 (The Railway Man 2013)
February 19, 1942, Bombing of Darwin (Australia 2008)
Spring 1942 (U-571 2000)
April 18, 1942 The Doolittle Raid (In Harm’s Way 2018)
June 4, 1942 Battle of Midway (Midway 2019)
1942 Summer Occupation of Jersey Island (Another Mother’s Son 2017 Prime)
July, 10 1942 Easy Company Trains in Camp Tocca (Band of Brothers 01x10 Currahee 2001)
July 21, 1942, Kokoda Track Campaign (Kokoda: 39th Battalion 2006)
August 7, 1942, 1st Marine Division land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 1 Guadalcanal/Leckie 2010)
August 19, 1942, Dieppe Raid (Dieppe 1993)
August 23, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad begins (Stalingrad 1993)
September 1942 Formation of Troop 30 (Age of Heroes 2011)
September 18, 1942, 7th Marines Land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 2 Basilone 2010)
Autumn of 1942 Battle of the Atlantic (Das Boot 1981)
October 18, 1942, Operation Grouse (Heavy Water War Ep. 2 2015)
November 8, 1942, Operation Torch (The Big Red One 1980)
November 10-17 1942 Vasily Zaytsev kills 225 German Soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad (Enemy at the Gates 2001)
December 1942 The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal is relieved (The Pacific Ep. 3 Melbourne 2010)
December 15, 1942, Battle of Mount Austen (Thin Red Line 1998)
1943
March 13-14 1943, liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto -(Schindler’s List 1993)
April 17, 1943 Operation Mincemeat (Operation Mincemeat 2021)
April 19, 1943, beginning of the Warsaw Uprising (Uprising 2001)
May 4, 1943, Final Mission of The Memphis Bell (Memphis Bell 1990)
May 15, 1943, Salamo Arouch and his family arrive in Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Triumph of the Spirit 1989)
May 27, 1943 Louis Zamperini plane crashes on a search and rescue mission (Unbroken 2014)
May 30, 1943 first All-American Girls Professional Baseball League game played (A League of Their Own 1992)
June 25, 1943, 100th Bomb Group flew its first 8th Air Force combat mission (Master of the Air: Part One 2024)
July 1943
-(The Tuskegee Airmen 1995)
-(The Liberator Ep. 1 2020)
-(Heavy Water War Ep. 5 2015)
July 16, 1943, The 100th Bomb Group bombed U-Boats in Tronbhdim (Masters of the Air: Part Two 2024)
August 17, 1943 the 4th Bomb Wing of the 100th Bomb Group bombed Regenberg (Masters of the Air: Part Three 2024)
September 16, 1943, William Quinn and Charles Bailey leave Belgium (Masters of the Air: Part Four 2024)
September 18, 1943 John ‘Bucky’ Egan returns from leave to join the mission to bomb Munster (Master of the Air: Part Five 2024
October 14, 1943, John ‘Bucky’ Egan interrogated at Dulag Lut, Frankfurt Germany (Masters of the Air: Part Six 2024)
December 26, 1943, 1st Marine Division lands on Cape Gloucester (The Pacific Ep. 4 Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika 2010)
1944
January 22, 1944, Battle of Anzio
-(The Liberator Ep. 2 2020)
-(Red Tails 2012)
-(Anzio 1968)
February 20, 1944, Hydro Ferry bombing (Heavy Water War Ep. 6 2015)
March 7, 1944, Stalag Luft III Sagan, Germany, Germans find the concealed radio Bucky was using to learn news of the War (Master of the Air: Part Seven 2024)
March 24/25, 1944 Allied Mass Escape of Stalag Luft III (The Great Escape 1963)
June 1944 (Cross of Iron 1977)
June 6, 1944, 00:48 & 01:40 First airborne troops begin to land on Normandy (Band of Brothers 02x10 Day of Days 2001)
June 6, 1944, 06:30 D-Day landings
-(Storming Juno 2010)
-(Saving Private Ryan 1998)
June 10, 1944, Easy Company Takes Carentan (Band of Brothers 03x10 Carentan 2001)
June 15-July 9, 1944 Battle of Saipan
-(Windtalkers 2002)
-(Oba: The Last Samurai 2011)
July, 1944 The Monuments Men land in Normandy (The Monuments Men 2014)
July 20, 1944 Operation Valkyrie (Valkyrie 2008)
August 12, 1944, The 332nd Fighter Group attack Radar stations in Southern France (Masters of the Air: Part Eight 2024)
September 15, 1944, U.S. Marines landed on Peleliu at 08:32 (the Pacific Ep. 5 2010)
September 16, 1944, U.S Marines take Peleliu Airfield (the Pacific Ep. 5 2010)
September 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden
-(Band of Brothers 04x10 Replacements 2001)
-(A Bridge Too Far 1977)
October 2, 1944 Battle of Scheldt (Forgotten Battle 2021)
October 12, 1944, Battle of Peleliu, Assault on Bloody Nose Ridge (the Pacific Ep. 7 Peleliu Hills 2010)
October 13, 1944, Rovaniemi public buildings were destroyed (Sisu 2022)
October 14, 1944, Erwin Rommel is arrested (Rommel 2012 Prime)
October 22/23, 1944, 2100 – 0200 Operation Pegasus (Band of Brothers 05x10 Crossroads 2001)
November 1944 middle of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest (When Trumpets Fade 1998)
December 16, 1944, Battle of the Bulge (Band of Brothers 06x10 Bastogne 2001)
December 1944 (Hart’s War 2002)
1945
January 2, 1945 (The Liberator Ep 3 2020)
January 10, 1945 (Attack Force Z)
January 13, 1945, Battle of Foy (Band of Brothers 07x10 The Breaking Point 2001)
January 30, 1945 The Raid at Cabanatuan (The Great Raid 2002)
February 14, 1945, David Webb rejoins the 506th in Haguenau (Band of Brothers 08x10 The Last Patrol 2001)
February 19, 1945, Battle of Iwo Jima starts.
- (Letters from Iwo Jima 2006)
- (The Pacific Ep. 8 Iwo Jima 2010)
- (Flags of our Fathers 2006)
March 21, 1945, Operation Carthage (The Bombardment 2021)
April, 1945 (Fury 2014)
April 5, 1945, 506th Finds abandoned Concentration Camp
(Band of Brothers 09x10 Why We Fight 2001)
April 26, 1945, near the end of the war in Europe (A Woman in Berlin 2008)
April 29, 1945, 45th Infantry Division liberated Dachau Concentration camp (The Liberator Ep. 4 2020)
May 2, 1945, Fall of Berlin
-(Downfall 2004)
-(Jojo Rabbit 2019)
May 1945 Battle of Okinawa
-(Hacksaw Ridge 2016)
-(The Pacific Ep. 9 Okinawa 2010)
May 7, 1945, Germany Surrenders V-E Day
- (Master of the Air: Part Nine 2024)
- (Band of Brothers 10x10 Points 2001)
July 30, 1945, USS Indianapolis sank.
(USS Indianapolis 2016)
August 15, 1945, The Empire of Japan surrenders end of the War.
-(Oppenheimer 2023)
-(The Pacific Part Ten: Home 2010)
September 11, 1945 US Military search and Arrest Japanese Leaders for war crimes (Emperor 2012)
1946
April 29, 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (Tokyo Trial 2016)
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Reinhard Heydrich
These are some facts and curiosities about Reinhard Heydrich:
He was born on the 7 March 1904 in Halle.
He was often mocked in his youth as Moses Handel, as it was rumored that he had Jewish ancestors, but it was never proven.
Both his parents were passionate about music and gave birth to a lifelong passion for the violin in their son.
In 1922 he entered the navy, at the naval academy in Kiel but he was discharged because, after having had an affair with the daughter of one of his superiors, he abandoned her for a younger woman.
He join the Nazis in 1931 when Himmler offered him to be the head of the SD, the segret service in the SS. He was given that position because Himmler was impressed by his Aryan appearence, self- assurance and thorough approach to the assigniment.
At the time he wasn’t a big shoot in the Nazis: he worked in a small office and he didn’t gain many money.
After Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Heydrich was placed in command of the Gestapo in 1934 and dealt with those organizations and people who could harm the Nazi cause.
He himself later organized the attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, called "Operation Himmler", which started the Second World War.
On 20 January 1942 Heydrich held the sadly famous conference in Wannsee in which the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" was planned.
In December 1941 he became the protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and he held a fight against the Czech resistance.
Heydrich became the ‘’de facto’’dictator of the area, ordering repression and persecution,so much that he earned the nickname The Executioner of Prague (Der Henker von Prag).
On 27 May 1942 a commando composed of members of the Czechoslovakian army in exile, trained by the British SOE made an attempt on Heydrich's life. He died on the 4th of June 1942.
To avenge Heydrich, the Nazi murdered all 192 males over the age of 15 living in the village of Lidice, near Prague, and deported all the women and children. Subsequently, all the buildings were burned, and the rubble was then removed to definitively erase the place from the geographical maps.
"Operation Reinhard" was named after Heydrich, the plan for the construction of the first three German extermination camps: Treblinka, Sobibór and Bełżec.
He was a great sport man: he like fancing and he was a horseman.
He cared about his victims as much as we care about the ant colonies in our yards
He open a bordel
He married Lina Von Osten and they had four children:
Klaus Heydrich ( 1933-1943)
Heider Heydrich (1934-)
Silke Heydrich ( 1939-)
Marte Heydrich ( 1942-)
Sources:
Wikipedia: Reinhard Heydrich
Military Wiki: Reinhard Heydrich
The Iron Heart Reinhard Heydrich by Johana Connor
HHhH by Laurent Binet.
I DON'T SUPPORT NAZISM,FASCISM OR ZIONISM IN ANY WAY, THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL POST
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berlin-wannsee station // berlin wannsee
architect: richard brademanns
completion: 1928
when you visit berlin-wannsee station, you feel like you've stepped right back into the twenties. the station is very well preserved and well worth seeing. and a starting point into a very oppressive and dark, historical environment which, with the memorial and educational site haus der wannsee konferenz (house of the wannsee conference), sheds light on the human crime of the shoa which was finally initiated here with the wannsee conference.
#berlin#wannsee#berlin wannsee#architecture#architecture photography#photography#richard brademanns#weimar republic#expressionism#expressionistic architecture#design#railway station#railway station architecture#germany#typography#wannseekonferenz#haus der wannsee konferenz
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First off, when Nate Mann loses the Emmy to everyone on White Lotus this year, we riot.
Second, Tim Van Patten probably got the shot of the series, with Bucky raising a tattered American flag over the camp as the the other POWs wave their own nations' flags, finally freed from under jackbooted terror.
Third, this series does somewhat repeat the sins of the father, in that, like Webster scolding Liebgott when he goes after the commandant and Liebgott being forced to translate the German surrender to show that the German army, too, was a band of brothers, this episode suddenly has a moment of humanity between a German officer and the Jewish soldier he's forcing to march, possibly to his death (while many Jews were being marched to their actual deaths across Europe as the Allies closed in on the camps). I'm not sure if Jewish anger is too unpalatable, but please note that we're like two scenes away from Rosie discovering the dead prisoners and talking to a man whose entire family has been shot and dumped in a mass grave (pay extra attention to where that man says he's going to go now that he's been freed! If you know your history, that man has a long and quite impossible road ahead of him.) I've long been fascinated by the World War II novel, written as it was by Jewish veterans, as my grandfathers both served - and a great-aunt! - but Band of Brothers holds an important place for me because my great-uncle was a member of the 82nd Airborne. He essentially journeyed their journey, from Normandy to the liberation of the camps. But what I only learned, right before he passed, is that while he was occupying Berlin, the moment that gave him the most satisfaction was sitting on a bench that had once been forbidden to Jews. For once, it would be something if these shows let their Jewish fighters have that experience.
Fourth, the show doesn't mention it, but the raid in which Rosie was shot down actually resulted in the death of Roland Friesler, attendee of the Wannsee Conference and the man who shaped the court system in Nazi Germany into an executioner's chamber.
Fifth, this show may think Austin Butler and Callum Turner are its central characters, but I waited ten years to see Robert Rosenthal on screen and I couldn't have asked for more. See above re: Nate Mann deserving all the awards. When his hand touches the wall of the barracks...chills.
#Masters of the Air#and a short novel#I can't believe it's over it seemed like we waited so long#I need like another three days to process this one#a nice jewish tag
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Holocaust letters
This is just my opinion and there is no scientific research done for this, at least not as far as I am aware, but I think the Holocaust can be categorized as an organised randomness.
On a large scale the industrialized murder of millions was organized in an efficient way, however on smaller scales the treatment of mainly Jews, by the Nazis, was often quite random. There are several examples…
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A non-verbal girl with cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, a stomach feeding tube, and a motorized wheelchair. The greatest joy her parents could give her was taking her to concerts, so she could dance in her chair.
Millions of people worldwide now feel "liberated" from her.
Many of those people are Americans and Europeans, who have advanced degrees from the best colleges in the world, and swear their side is the one based on tolerance, acceptance, and protecting those with no power.
Nazi ideology caught on quickest through universities and professions. Nearly all the participants at the Wannsee Conference were lawyers. And they did a test-run on their genocide of the Jews by first exterminating the disabled.
In 2015, the Israeli and Iranian teams for the Special Olympics wound up sharing the same plane and becoming friends.
If that happened again, Iran would shoot the plane down and kill them all. And millions worldwide would again feel "liberated."
I like to think of Ruth's happiness, and her father's relief and pride, when she danced in her chair. I am glad they were able to go to concerts. The world should have more places where Ruth Peretz could joyously live her life.
It should have no place for the lives of her killers or their supporters. Any of them. Anywhere.
#Antisemitism#Arab antisemitism#Muslim antisemitism#Ruth peretz#special Olympics#disability rights#euthanasia#Nazism#jumblr
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Wannsee
Julia Knobloch
Sheep clouds and sandy light, white sails and motor boats
This summer escape was built in 1907
for the working class of Berlin, who could not afford the Baltic Sea
Then and now a crowded beach
young women posing in deck chairs
Pine cones, yellow flowers
soda fizzing red and green in leafy shadows
One afternoon we plowed, arms hooked, through shallow water
the ferry to Peacock Island in the distance
reed grass rustling in the sudden silence
That’s how you find a drowned body
the lifeguard explained
by marching as one long chain of humans
The loudspeaker blared
and I thought of the cheery post-war tune
sung by an eight-year old, “The Little Cornelia,”
about children riding their bikes out to Wannsee
underneath a canopy of pines and patches of blue sky
The song didn’t exist in 1942, neither did little Cornelia
and it was January
the beach across the lake closed for the season
but the view and shoreline were the same —
Did any of them let their mind wander to the summer ahead
to riding their bikes through the forest
running into the cool, soft Wannsee
lifting their daughter up into the air, water dripping from her blond curls?
#wannsee#resort#Berlin#wannsee conference#nazism#final solution#WWII#holocaust#poetry#julia knobloch
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