Holocaust Site Index G-L

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Gas chamber DEFN

Historical context
Use in "Operation T4"
Janusz Korczak deported with orphans to gas chambers
Visible from "Gypsy Family Camp"
Chambers closed at Sobibor
Discovery by Allied troops
Definition: Zyclon B
Document: "Undesirables" exterminated
Document: Testimony of Auschwitz SS-men
Document: Testimonies of Belzec SS-men
Document: Testimonies of Treblinka SS-men
Photo Gallery: Majdanek gassing facility
Photo Gallery: Bernburg "euthanasia" facility
Photos: Mauthausen gas chamber
Photos: Destroyed gas chambers at Birkenau
Photo: Entrance to gas chamber at Auschwitz
Photo: Temporary gas chamber at Auschwitz
Painting: "Gassing" by David Olere
VR: Bernburg gas chamber interior
VR: Majdanek gas chamber interior

General Government DEFN
Jews Ordered to wear Star of David
Comments from Hans Frank
Separate General Government ruled by Hans Frank
Goebbels on fate of Jews in General Government
Map: Location of General Government

Genocide DEFN
Countries and businesses profited from genocide
World War I and the Armenian genocide
Total figure for Jewish genocide
Teaching about genocide

German Worker's party DEFN
Document: Program of the German Workers' Party

Gestapo DEFN
Historical context
Definition: Geheime Staatspolizei
Heinrich Himmler
Special Division targeting homosexuals
Document: Nuremburg Trials testimony

Ghettos DEFN
Introduction
Art of the ghettos
Music of the ghettos
Document: Segregation into ghettos
Photo Gallery: Warsaw Ghetto I
Photo Gallery: Warsaw Ghetto II
Photo Gallery: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising i
Photo Gallery: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising II
Photo Gallery: Lodz ghetto
Photo Gallery: Other ghettos
Photo Gallery: Ghetto artists
Map: Ghettos
Activity: Janusz Korczak

Glossary
Holocaust glossary
Goebbels, Joseph DEFN
Short biography and photo
Photo Gallery: Delivers speech
Goering, Hermann DEFN
Short biography and photo
Document: Discriminatory decrees against the Jews
As character in the Emperor of Atlantis
Document: Nuremberg Trials
Photo: Portrait

Great Depression DEFN
Impact on Germany

Guerrilla Warfare DEFN
Areas ideal for guerrilla warfare
As form of resistance
Guerrilla fighters executed
Definition: Partisans

Gypsies DEFN (more properly "Sinti and Roma")
Introduction and links
Extended USHMM article
Photo Gallery: Various memorials
Bibliography: Roma and Sinti

Hamburg

Photo Gallery: Various memorials
VR: Rose garden
Hess, Rudolf
Short biography and photo
Photo: In jail cell
Heydrich, Reinhard DEFN
Short biography and photo
As prepetrator
Chaired Wannse conference
Document: Gives Kristallnacht order
Himmler, Heinrich DEFN
Short Biography and photo
As Chief of Police
Einsatzgruppen
Jehovah's Witnesses as example for SS
Roll in death camps
Sobibor death camp escape
SS and Himmler
Start of Black Shirts under Himmler
Opposition to homosexuality
Reich office combatting homosexuality
Views on Poles and ethnic groups
Document: Letters and speeches
Document: Letter regarding mental disabilities
Document: Letters to and from Himmler on sterilization of Jewish workers
Document: Letters to Himmler on medical experiments
Document: Correspondence Concerning Japan
Document: Report on mass executions
Document: Report entitled "Resettlement of Jews"
Document: Statements of "Jewish Question"
Document: Order on POW status
Document: Order on beatings

Hitler, Adolf DEFN
Rise of the Nazi Party
Nazification of Germany
Not the only perpetrator
Policies against people with disabilities
Policies against Jehovah's Witnesses
Policies against homosexuals
Mein Kampf
As "artist"
Blames Jews for state of the arts
Article: "When I Met Hitler"
Documents: Hitler on the "Jewish question"
Document: Address by Hitler
Document: Hitler on propaganda
Document: Proclamation of Hitler
Nuremberg Trials: Hitler invited to invade Austria
Nuremberg Trials: Charges against Hitler
Photo: Hitler and Von Hindenberg
Photo: Hitler speaking in 1935
Photo: Hitler reviews 35,000 SA troops
Photo: Hitler reviews Stormtroopers
Photo: Hitler reviews SS troops
Photo: Attending concert
Movie: Hitler Gives the Jews a City
Movie: Opening1936 Berlin Olympics

Hitler Youth DEFN
Photo: Hitler Youth march through Nuremburg
Photo: Hitler Youth view boxcars
Definition: League of German Girls

Homosexual Victims
Introduction and links
Extended USHMM article
Photo Gallery: Various memorials

International Military Tribunal DEFN

Chartered after the war to prosecute Nazi criminals
Documents: Trial transcripts
Photo Gallery: Nuremberg trials

Jehovah's Witnesses DEFN

Introduction and links
Extended USHMM article
Included in groups taken to camps
Victims
Nuremberg Trials: a persecuted sect

Judenrat DEFN
Judenrat in ghettos

Judaism DEFN
Definition: Bar-Mitzvah
Definition: Bat Mitzvah
Richard Wagner on Judaism in music
Diaspora
Geographical movement of European Jews
Religion and education goes underground
Star of David

Kapo DEFN

Jewish police detain a former kapo

Kollwitz, Käthe
Photo Gallery: Pietá by Käthe Kollwitz
Activity: Never again war
Korczak, Janusz DEFN
Biography
Photo Gallery: Janusz Korczak Memorials
Play: Korczak and the Children by G.E. Farrell
Play: Dr. Janusz Korczak
Weblink: Living Heritage Web Site

Kristallnacht DEFN
Escalation of terror
Document: Kristallnacht Order
Photo Gallery: Kristallnacht
Map: Synagogue destruction
Movie: Kristallnacht

Lebensraum DEFN

Polish annexation
Hitler's quest for Lebensraum
Lódz Ghetto
Photo Gallery: Life in the ghetto
Lutz, Carl
Monument for the Swiss rescuer of Jews in Budapest

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