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...