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Hitler & what he became
Adolf Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany. He abolishes democracy and becomes a dictator. -
WWll
World War 2 started on September 1st, 1939 -
The largest Camp.
The largest concentration and extermination camp was at Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
Germany invading
Germany invades Denmark and Norway with the first major airborne attacks on Allied forces. -
Sonderkommando
The Sonderkommando at Auschwitz was a group of Jewish prisoners, who disposed of the bodies of the fellow prisoners who were killed in concentration camps. -
Leaving?
The Sonderkommando had no choice, they couldn´t resign or refuse, the only way to leave was suicide. -
Zalman Levental
The men in Kommando 59-B using the explosives in hand made grenades blew up the crematorium, which burst into flames. After cutting the barbed-wire fence, the prisoners got away into the nearby woods. -
The amount of people
By 1943, Sonderkommandos reached up to 400 people. Then in 1944, Jews from Hungary were deported there, which swelled the group to have over 900 people. -
Cremated
The people who died in the camps at Auschwitz were cremated in ovens by the Sonderkommando. -
Treblinka/Auschwitz
At Treblinka, 200 men were in charge of disposing the dead bodies from the gas chambers. At Auschwitz the Sonderkommando working in the crematoria initially numbered 400 men, but the number was raised during the mass murder of Hungarians in 1944 to about 1,000 men. -
Although..
Although the Sonderkommando had better working conditions than the rest of the prisoners, most were eventually gassed from sickness or being to weak from working in camps. And whatever prisoner witnessed this, would be killed as well. -
October
In October of 1944, the Sonderkommando team at Birkenau eventually found out that the SS was going to gas them. Sonderkommandos decided to take their fate into their own hands, and, on October 7, the Birkenau Three Sonderkommando, rebelled. They attacked the SS with makeshift weapons: stones, axes, hammers, other work tools and homemade grenades. But, were eventually captured and the rest of the escapees were as well. -
Roza Robota
Roza Robota was one of the organizers of an operation to smuggle explosives for use by members of the Sonderkommando. -
the women
the SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying explosives to blow up a crematorium used to burn the bodies of Nazi murder victims. All five women were killed. -
Ala Gertner & more
Ala Gertner was another woman who Alla, Alina, Ella, and Ela Gertner, was one of four women hanged in the Auschwitz concentration camp for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt. -
Hitlers Death
Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945 -
Surrendering
In the beginning of May, the German forces surrender. -
WWll (end)
World War 2 ended on September 2nd, 1945
