Major Crimes and True Crime

In March 1942 a train with 999 young girls of Jewish origin left Slovakia. They were mostly teenagers. Their parents were informed by the Nazis that the girls would be working in a boot factory only a few months. It was a terrible and horrifying lie. This was actually the first time the Jewish people were transported to the Auschwitz death camp in an official manner. Edith was the name of one of these girls. She went on the train with her sister Lea. As they opened the doors they did not see a factory. They observed an icy desert with barbed wire. The girls had to work very hard such as digging in the swamps with their bare hands or demolishing old brick walls. They never ate enough and never were warm. Life in the camp was a nightmare. Typhus was a contagious sickness. Poor Lea became really ill and was sent to the gas chambers in late 1942. Edith was heartbroken, but she didn't give up. She was not killed due to her camp sisters. They were friends who to...

The case of Eduard Krebsbach can never be forgotten when reading about the Holocaust. It depicts the loss of humanity in a doctor, a person who is supposed to save lives, and allows him to think in a perverted, vicious manner. Mauthausen camp, the prisoners referred to him as Dr. Spritz (Dr. Injection) due to his tendency of killing a number of people by injecting them with gasoline or phenol straight into their hearts. This did not constitute in his view a crime. He regarded it as a medical activity that was normal to him. The most aggravating part is the fact that he remained relatively calm throughout the trial. Krebsbach did not attempt to deny the killings when the prosecutor questioned him on the matter. He likened weak and sick people to deformed animals that are to be put to rest. According to him, killing them was a show of kindness since it relieved the state of the burden to take care of them. This is the essence of Nazi mentality: when you do not w...

July 9, 1931 – Inuvik, Canada A man arrived on a homemade raft at the small settlement of Fort McPherson after traveling down the Peel River. When local authorities spoke to him, he said his name was “Albert Johnson” but refused to share anything else about himself. He later built a small cabin near the Rat River and started living there alone. Not long after, other local hunters accused him of messing with their traps. So on December 26, 1931, two police officers went to his cabin to question him. But Johnson didn’t talk or cooperate. He stayed inside and ignored them, so the officers came back five days later with a legal warrant. Again, Johnson refused to let them in. When one of the officers, named King, tried to force open the door, Johnson suddenly shot him with a rifle. The police were shocked and pulled back. They later returned with a group of nine officers and decided to blow up the cabin to end the standoff. But even after the explos...

Susan and Joseph Hilsenrath were woken up in the middle of the night on November 9, 1938, when they heard the glass break. One of the bricks went through the bedroom window. Susan remained silent in fright. Her younger brother ran to the window to find out what was going on. Our neighbors, Susi, said Joseph. He was only eight years old. Attacks on Jewish families were spread throughout Germany that night. Even their neighbors became hostile to them in their town of Bad Kreuznach. One of the street-lamps was dragged down and thrust into their door. This night is called Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.” It transformed their lives in a way. Initially, the family had hopes of relocating to America with the assistance of one of their relatives. However, it was extremely long to get a visa. Being left with no option that was safe, Susan parents; Israel and Annie, had to spend almost all their money to take Susan and Joseph to France with the assistance of ...

I hate to tell you that, but the facts are the facts. During the holocaust, young children were used by Nazi guards in the camps and ghettos as shooting drills. It is supported by the court records and history books. This did not always come in by senior bosses- this came in through the dark hearts of common guards. Janowska camp stands out. Survivors at Nuremberg testified on oath: SS men would use babies or toddlers like dolls and would toss them in the air and pull the trigger to drop them half-way down. On other days they were off after children in the fields, practicing upon moving targets. Pure twisted fun for them. What drove it? Endless Nazi lies. They trained soldiers that Jews did not qualify as human beings and that they were forest pests. Killing a child? No worse than bagging game. Experienced guards conducted these so-called lessons in order to harden the rookies. Strip away pity. Forge ice-cold killers. When large groups were taking their last s...

Consider a warehouse filled to capacity with suitcases where the walls are out of view. It was here at Auschwitz that the term “Canada” was coined. Not that Canada was a good place; it had too many stolen items from the victims brought there. These were not random items but systematically collected. After prisoners were taken off the trains very few returned to pick up their belongings. The belongings became a kind of inventory of a larger system just as men women and children were used as numbers within it. Prisoners including young children and teenagers were required to separate these belongings. They had no choice. They opened the bags and found things that reminded them of former lives like books with names in them stuffed animals eyeglasses and food prepared for a trip that ended in tragedy. The belongings that remained were sorted and reused. Clothing items were cleaned and sent to soldiers in the war effort. Any jewelry in the bags was taken and reused...

Éva Heyman died on October 17, 1944 at Auschwitz. She was born February 13, 1931 and died at age 13. Her family was Jewish. Her parents were Bela and Ágnes. After they separated, her mother married Béla Zsolt. In 1944, Éva started her diary in which she recorded her life, her fear, and her hopes. Nagyvárad was conquered by the Nazi Germans on 19 March 1944. A few days later Éva's family was sent to a ghetto. Life there was very difficult. She was compelled to share a small room with numerous people and couldn't leave the house. Three days before she was sent to Auschwitz, she wrote in her diary that she didn't want to die. If she had to hide till the war was over, she wanted to live, she said. She pleaded for the opportunity to live. She arrived with her grandparents to Auschwitz where she was forced to join forced labor. She lived for some time due to the fact that the guards did not know her true age. Later, she became sick and developed an infec...

The most scary thing that happened during the holocaust was that Nazis didn't just use gas. They used the human lives as cruel science experiments. Records exist of them attempting to kill people in very nasty ways with electricity before choosing gas as it was easier. In the camp of Belzec, in Poland, there have been stories of a room with a metal floor. Nazis would flood the floor with water and force people in. Then they switched on a severe electric current that went through the water and the metal. They stopped because of a current blowing the local power grid. For the Nazis, it was not a moral issue, but a technical one that they could cover up. Electricity also killed people on the camps of the fences such as Auschwitz. Those barbed wire fences carried 6000 volts or so. Guards used them to put prisoners to death by pushing them into the wires or by drawing them near while they were shooting. Prisoners talked of these deaths being going to the wire. ...

3 years ago, Lindsay Lohan & her fiance in a nasty beach fight caught on camera Last week, Lindsay Lohan claimed that her Russian fiancé Egor Tarabasov tried to strangle her and went on social media to lay cheating claims on him. Then she said everyone should mind their business and stay away from her personal life. Today a new video shows them fighting at a beach. In a video obtained by Radar Online, Lindsay Lohan who was in the passenger seat of a black jeep, grabbed Egor's phone and threw it out the window. They both rush out of the jeep to grab the phone, but Lindsay got to the phone before Egor did. He tried to take the phone from Lindsay but she refused to give it up. He then pulled her arms behind her and tried to squeeze the phone from her. He kept saying 'Give me my phone' and she said 'No'. He retrieved the phone from her and she got into the back of the jeep, he told her to g...

Graphic photographs taken during the liberation of Denmark after five years of Nazi rule show how gangs of men rounded up and abused conspirators and women accused of sleeping with Germans. The black and white images, taken after  British paratroopers swept into the Scandinavian country in 1945, illustrate the anger and hatred the Danes felt towards the German occupiers. In one shocking series of images, a woman who is believed to have slept with a German is chased down and stripped before having swastikas painted over her. In other images, which are only now coming to light as they go up for auction, men are taken away at gunpoint while another image shows  a baying mob rip and burn a Nazi swastika flag. +14 View gallery In a shocking series of images, taken following the liberation of Denmark in 1945, a woman who had slept with a German is chased down by a group of men +14 View gallery The men grab hold of the woman as she tries t...