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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Heinrich Himmler

Women pronounced fit for labor from the Tet Ghetto in Hungary standing on the platform after a selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (Anonymous, possibly SS photographers E. Hoffmann & B. Walter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
November 17, 2022, 11:30 am
Study suggests Nazis attempted to sterilize Jewish women in camps with food additive
New research finds it likely wasn’t just trauma and starvation that caused 98% of women to stop menstruating upon arrival at Auschwitz, and many to later struggle with infertility
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth III on horseback with friends in this undated photo. (Courtesy Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth V)
December 8, 2021, 8:25 pm
German prince fights for estate ‘stolen’ after his grandfather tried to kill Hitler
Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth III was tortured and imprisoned after being involved in Operation Valkyrie; his heirs want their property back, but Germany’s government disagrees
By Robert Philpot
Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the Gestapo and the SS, in the 1930s. (Corbis via Getty Images)
April 28, 2021, 10:20 am
Oregon auction house pulls purported Himmler dagger after Jewish groups complain
Auctioneer removes ceremonial knife said to have been owned by SS leader and other Nazi memorabilia from docket, says he will not sell such items again
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: SS chief Heinrich Himmler in 1940, before construction of the death camps he oversaw. (Public domain)
October 10, 2020, 4:29 am
One of the largest US cemetery companies quotes Nazi Himmler in its calendar
StoneMor Inc. prints quote by Holocaust planner that has become neo-Nazi slogan; firm says it was an error, alerts ADL, fires those involved
By Ron Kampeas
The railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 7, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP/File)
January 27, 2020, 10:42 pm
Timeline: The history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
A chronological look at the notorious Nazi death camp where over 1.3 million people died, from 1940 when the site was first chosen until its liberation by the Red Army in 1945
By AFP
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 19, 2019, 9:06 am
British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour
Publicity for the $3,650 trip calls the camps ‘controversial’ and describes Irving as a ‘Hitler expert’
By Marcy Oster
The family of Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler: daughter Gudrun, left, wife Margaret, center, and Heinrich, right, date unknown. (German Federal Archive, Image 146-1969-056-55/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)
June 29, 2018, 3:29 pm
SS chief Himmler’s daughter worked for German spy agency
In bid for transparency about Nazi links in its past, BND reveals Gudrun Burwitz-Himmler was employed by it from 1961 to 1963, when the service had many ex-Nazis on its payroll
By AP
SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) shakes hands with Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, around 1941 (public domain)
June 20, 2018, 1:57 pm
New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short
Journalist Max Wallace writes that a hushed-up pact between Heinrich Himmler and his sworn enemies prompted the SS chief to destroy the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Experts disagree
By Matt Lebovic
A telegram from senior Nazi Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, probably dating to 1943, found in the archives of the National Library, March 29, 2017.
March 30, 2017, 3:53 am
In rediscovered telegram, Himmler offers Jerusalem’s mufti help against ‘Jewish intruders’
Hitler’s deputy assures pro-Nazi Haj Amin al-Husseini of Nazis‘ ‘particular sympathy‘ for struggle of ‘freedom-loving Arabs’ of Palestine and beyond
By Sue Surkes
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation' (Public domain)
October 27, 2016, 12:02 pm
The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments
Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’
By Matt Lebovic
In Berlin, Germany, the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe, November 2012 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
September 29, 2016, 11:57 pm
Targeting students, Holocaust deniers up their game online
As disputers of the Shoah attract new adherents, historians such as ‘Denial’ protagonist Deborah Lipstadt warn against implementing European-style laws
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Heinrich Himmler in 1939. (AFP)
August 5, 2016, 11:05 am
Himmler diaries reveal chilling details of Nazi wartime life
Journals illustrate how the SS chief kept tabs on even the banal minutiae of his daily routine, even as he oversaw the systematic slaughter of European Jewry
By AFP
Heinrich Himmler with his daughter Gudrun ca. 1941 (Vanessa Lapa’s 'The Decent One' via JTA)
August 1, 2016, 9:36 pm
Himmler’s diary discovered in archive in Russia
Nazi SS leader recorded ‘effectiveness’ of the diesel engines used to gas prisoners at the Sobibor death camp
By JTA
A mother cradles her new born baby in the Kovno ghetto hospital. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin)
May 5, 2016, 10:55 am
Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies
Author Beverley Chalmers says we owe it to victims and survivors to know the unspeakable crimes — including rape, experimentation and forced abortion — committed against them
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, 1939. (Bundesarchiv)
April 5, 2016, 4:06 pm
UK author exposes the oft-forgotten horrors of a Nazi death camp for women
In ‘If This Is a Woman,’ Sarah Helm goes inside Germany’s Ravensbrück, where up to 90,000 women perished during the Holocaust
By JP O’ Malley
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