Henning Borggräfe
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, and survivors themselves took part. New archives, documentation centers and tracing bureaus were founded amid the increasing Cold War divide. They gathered documents on Nazi persecution and structured them in specialized collections...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
During the Nazi era, about three million Jews - half the victims of the Holocaust - were deported from the German Reich, the occupied territories, as well as Nazi-allied countries, and sent to ghettos, camps, and extermination centers. The police and the SS also deported tens of thousands of Sinti and Roma, mainly to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, where most of them were killed. Deportations were central to National Socialist...