Video: 'Drowning Germans, Burning Jews - War Against Humanity 061 - May 22, 1943' (May 16, 1943, at 1:17)

(Sunday, May 16, 1943, 8:15 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST); during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — the act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany’s final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka death camps — came to an end tonight as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue. Continue reading Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends as German forces crush Jewish resistance and blow up Great Synagogue 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 16 1943) →

Video: 'The Myth of the Nazi Police State - WW2 Documentary Special'

(Wednesday, April 26, 1933) — Nazi Germany’s infamous secret police, better known as the Gestapo, was formed today by Reichsstatthalter Hermann Göring to control political dissent within the German state of Prussia. Continue reading Nazi Germany’s infamous secret police Gestapo created by Hermann Göring 90 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 26 1933) →

Video: 'Would You Risk Everything to Fight the Nazis? - War Against Humanity 057 - April 24, 1943' (Apr. 19, 1943, at 8:40)

(Monday, April 19, 1943, 8:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST), on the eve of Passover; during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, part of The Holocaust and World War II) — Tens of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but ultimately futile battle today against Nazi forces when the Germans tried to resume deportations to the Treblinka concentration camp. Continue reading Tens of thousands of Jews in Warsaw Ghetto revolt when Germans try to resume deportations to Treblinka concentration camp 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 19 1943) →

Video: 'Total War Coming to Germany - WAH 51 - January 1943, Pt. 2' (Warsaw ghetto 16:49)

(Monday, January 18, 1943, 7:00 a.m. Central European Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The first Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began today as Nazi soldiers began their second deportation from Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland. Continue reading Jewish insurgents in Warsaw Ghetto launch initial armed resistance 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 18 1943) →

Video: 'The World at War Extra 8 The Final Solution Auschwitz 5/6' (Rivka Yosselevska describes Pinsk ghetto liquidation at 10:49)

(Thursday, October 29, 1942, 6:30 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — Liquidation of the Pinsk Ghetto, a Nazi ghetto created by Nazi Germany for the confinement of Jews living in the city of Pinsk in eastern Poland, began this morning as soldiers of an SS detachment poured into the ghetto, armed with clubs, double-headed axes and accompanied by dogs. Continue reading 17,000 Jews murdered as Nazis begin liquidating Pinsk ghetto in eastern Poland 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 29 1942) →

Video: 'The 100 Deadliest Days of the Holocaust Begin... - WAH 039 - July 1942, Pt .2' (July 22, 1942, at 4:18)

(Wednesday, July 22, 1942, “resettlement” ordered to begin at 11:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka death camp began today as the German SS, headed by the “Resettlement Commissioner” Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, called a meeting of the Ghetto Jewish Council Judenrat and informed its leader Adam Czerniaków about the “resettlement to the East.” Continue reading Nazis begin transporting Jews from Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka death camp 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 22 1942) →

Video: 'The 100 Deadliest Days of the Holocaust Begin... - WAH 039 - July 1942, Pt .2' (Himmler at Auschwitz, July 17-18, 1942, at 2:28)

(Friday, July 17, 1942, late afternoon Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust, during World War II) — Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany’s Minister of the Interior, began a two-day visit to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp today in Nazi-occupied Poland, his second and final visit to the facility that would witness the murders of 1.3 million people, about 90 percent of them Jewish, through 1945. Continue reading Top Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler begins two-day visit at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 17 1942) →