Holocaust
The question’s preamble stated, “Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) is a poisonous gas, which Nazi Germany used to horrific ends in the gas chambers during The Holocaust.” It then asked to calculate how much of the gas would be a deadly amount in a particular-sized room.
The Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, which consists of the National Holocaust Museum, dismissed criticism that four pictures were censored, saying they were left out because they do not portray Dutch Jews, who are the focus of the exhibition.
And 45 percent of Americans could not name any of the 40 ghettos or concentration camps erected by the Nazis, with a whopping 66 percent of millennials unable to state the significance of “Auschwitz.”
The Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents has been under fire for publishing that “the Lithuanians operated against the will of the Germans,” and that “the residents of occupied Lithuania in 1941 didn’t understand ghettos as part of the Holocaust.”
Despite Gov. Alexander Rogachuk saying, “We will not allow the building of anything on bones of people,” officials are moving ahead with plans to build a luxury apartment building complex at the site.
Hikers who visited the site were appalled by what they found: Human remains were strewn everywhere, the catacombs were thoroughly ransacked and looted, and the sarcophagi (burial caskets) that had been resting in the caves for more than 2,500 years had disappeared.
The memorabilia in the exhibit, titled “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away,” includes a gas mask used by the SS, a helmet and a dagger used by Heinrich Himmler, who oversaw the concentration and death camps, in addition to a desk belonging to Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
In a massive report in Germany’s “Bild” newspaper, Albert Reimann Sr. and Albert Reimann Jr. were reported to have used Russian civilians and French POWs as forced laborers when the Nazi regime reigned, according to documents recently brought to light.
The Republican representative from Alabama accused Democrats and the press for creating “a big lie” over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation over whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
Fernando Paz, a historian, will run as part of the far-right Vox party in the city of Albacete, about three hours southeast of Madrid.
The “controversial” tour, which costs $3,650 per participant, includes sites such as Treblinka, Sobibór, Majdanek and Belzec.
A mass grave of Holocaust victims was allegedly desecrated by grave diggers looking for gold in the Ukrainian town of Raflivka, discovered after a large hole in the center of the sectioned-off pit.
