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Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Monday, January 5, 2026

Sachsenhausen Nazi Death Camp.

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Sachsenhausen occupies a grim but central place in the Nazi camp system. Located just north of Berlin near the town of Oranienburg , it was...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

The Majdanek Nazi Death Camp--Horror in Plain Sight

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  Majdanek was unlike any of the other death camps we visited on this trip. The others were hidden in the woods, operating in secret.  Thi...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

The Sobibor Nazi Death Camp

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Sobibór , deep in the forests of eastern Poland near the Bug River , was one of the most secret and lethal of the Nazi death camps. Built in...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Treblinka Nazi Death Camp

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  After visiting the Chelmno Death Camp, Emily and Cliff and I drove to the Treblinka Death Camp, located about 80 kilometers northeast of W...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

The Chelmno Nazi Death Camp

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 Yesterday, I visited Chelmno , known in German as Kulmhof , the first Nazi death camp established for the systematic extermination of Jews....
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

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W.G. Sebald ’s Austerlitz is a novel built on the slow recovery of memory. Rather than unfolding in a straight line, the story emerges thro...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Death Camp Visits Resume: Treblinka and the Warsaw Ghetto

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Memorial at Treblinka Death Camp in Poland In November, I will resume my visits to Nazi Death Camps. This time I will travel with my friend ...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Bureaucrat of Death: Adolf Eichmann and the Machinery of the Holocaust

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(This post is edited and improved by ChatGPT. The original version is here .)  In 1932, Adolf Eichmann was an unemployed Austrian drifting t...