Schutzstaffel
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The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 H04436, Klagenfurt, Adolf Hitler, Ehrenkompanie
Bundesarchiv Bild 101III Lerche Stereo 046 03, Metz, Sepp Dietrich bei Ordensverleihung
Himmler besichtigt die Gefangenenlager in Russland. Heinrich Himmler inspects a prisoner of war camp in Russia, circa... NARA 540164
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R97512, Berlin, Geheimes Staatspolizeihauptamt
Holocaust trains
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Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jew
Polish Jews being loaded onto trains at Umschlagplatz of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. The site is preserved today as a Polish national monument.
Jews are deported from Würzburg, 25 April 1942. Deportation occurred in public and was witnessed by many Germans.
The "Gate of Death" at Auschwitz-Birkenau was built in 1943.
German-made DRB Class 52 steam locomotive used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn during World War II. Members of this class were used in the Holocaust.