AUSTRIA sterreich

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AUSTRIA
Österreich

• Stubai Alps
• (SW of Innsbruck)

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• Salzburg

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Austrian Service Abroad

• Founded 1992 by Dr. Andreas Maislinger
• Three categories
• Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
• Austrian Social Service
• Austrian Peace Service
• There are several organizations, but the biggest
  is the association Austrian Service Abroad
• It sends volunteers to 67 different places in 30
  countries

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Braunau am Inn
Rathaus or town hall

• Hitler's birthplace

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The Anschluss 12 March 1938
Melk Abbey
Heldenplatz, Vienna
Heldenplatz, Vienna
Austrians salute Hitler as he passes the
Benedictine Abbey at Melk
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Adolf Hitler
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Hierarchy

• The Führer Adolf Hitler
• Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
• Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)

Reinhard Heydrich
Wannsee conference 20 July 1942
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Hitler
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Hierarchy

• The Führer Adolf Hitler
• Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
• Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Reinhard
  Heydrich Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• Judenreferat (Jewish Department)

Adolf Eichmann
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Hitler
Odilo Globocnik
Franz Stangl
Alois Brunner
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"Operation Reinhard beginning of the industry
of murder spring 1942 early November 1943 Main
death camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka 2 mio.
victims
Treblinka
Sobibor
Belzec
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As terrible as the documents are, so is Yad
Vashem and its surroundings beautiful.
Yad Vashems entrance

• view from the archive my workplace

Micro Film Reader
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Over a half million individuals were shot within
less than one year.
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The aim from the beginning was to destroy Jewish
life in Europe.

• 22.06.1941 the Einsatzgruppen murders begin
• 20.01.1942 Wannsee conference the final
  solution is organized The Nazis thought about
  it for a long time. The question was how and
  when. The answer is murder and now
• 02.1942 the Madagaskar-plan was completely
  abandoned

photo taken in Kiel, Germany 1932 Shulamith
Posner-Mansbach/ United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
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As terrible as the documents are, so is Yad
Vashem and its surroundings beautiful.
Yad Vashems entrance

• view from the archive my workplace

Micro Film Reader