For the book Night.Does anyone know how to look up: What happened to Nazi officials after world war two?

Question

This is for my English calss we are reading the book NIght and we have a project to look up What happened to SS, gestapos and Nazi officials after ww2. And Dr.Mengele. My teacher said to focus on the nuremburg trials...Help..please

Answer 1

Have a look at "Nuremberg Trials" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials

"According to Simon Wiesenthal, towards the end of World War II, a group of former SS officers went to Argentina and set up a Nazi fugitive network code-named ODESSA, (an acronym for Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, "Organization of the former SS members"), with ties in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Vatican, operating out of Buenos Aires. ODESSA allegedly helped Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke, and many other war criminals find postwar refuge in Latin America."

"Notably, Argentinian citizen and water company worker Ricardo Klement was discovered to be Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s, by former Jewish Dachau worker Lothar Hermann, whose daughter, Sylvia, became romantically involved with Klaus Klement (born Klaus Eichmann in 1936 in Berlin). He was captured by the Israeli Secret Service, the Mossad, in a suburb of Buenos Aires on 1960-05-11, and tried in Jerusalem on 1961-04-11, where he explicitly declared that he had abdicated his conscience in order to follow the Führerprinzip (the 'leader principle' or superior orders). Also, Dr. Mengele, disguised as a member of the regular German infantry was captured and released by the Allies, oblivious of who he was. He was able to go and work in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1949 and to Altos, Paraguay, in 1959 where he was discovered by Nazi hunters. From the late 1960s on, he exercised his medical practice in Embu, a small city near São Paulo, Brazil, under the identity of Wolfgang Gerhard, where in 1979, he suffered a stroke while swimming and drowned."

"The British writer Gitta Sereny (born in 1921 in Hungary), who conducted interviews with SS men, considers the story about ODESSA untrue and attributes the escape of notorious SS members to postwar chaos, an individual bishop in the Vatican, and the Vatican's inability to investigate the stories of those people who came requesting help."

"Schutzstaffel : Postwar activity" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ss#Postwar_activity

"After the war, he first hid in Germany under an assumed name, then escaped and lived in South America, first in Argentina (until 1959) and finally in Brazil, where he accidentally drowned. This was confirmed using DNA testing on his remains."

"Josef Mengele" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengela

"These groups—the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command (OKW), the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) (including the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and the Gestapo—had an aggregate membership exceeding 2 million, and it was estimated[attribution needed] that approximately half these people would be made liable for trial if the groups were convicted."

"The trials began in November 1945, and on October 1, 1946, the IMT rendered its judgment on 21 top officials of the Third Reich. The IMT sentenced most of the accused to death or to extensive prison terms and acquitted three. The IMT also convicted three of the groups: the Nazi leadership corps, the SS (including the SD), and the Gestapo. Gestapo members Hermann Göring and Arthur Seyss-Inquart were individually convicted by the IMT."

"Three groups were acquitted of collective war crimes charges, but this did not relieve individual members of those groups from conviction and punishment under the denazification program. Members of the three convicted groups were subject to apprehension and trial as war criminals by the national, military, and occupation courts of the four allied powers. And, even though individual members of the convicted groups might be acquitted of war crimes, they still remained subject to trial under the denazification program."

"Gestapo : Nuremberg Trials" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo#Nuremberg_Trials

Answer 2

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Answer 3

i recognize the officials and commanders of the most concentration camps were placed to trial, some demise, and detention midsection. Jews seem to continually be contained in the minority so no, they did not bypass round beating up Nazis. A) They were purely satisfied to be alive, B) there have been plenty, and a large number of Nazis, and C) They were very non secular and the bible would not incourage violence like that - you recognize the completed, turn the different cheek and stuff. desire that enables!

Answer 4

just google the nuremburg trials and you will get loads of stuff about them. but also look at people like Dr. von Braun who was the lead scientist on the V2 rockets but after the war worked for NASA.

Answer 5

try looking in the arkives and the listing of war crimes,
if that does not help go on the net. look up nurenburg trials.
1945-1949 war trials.
defence lawiers.
avalon projectyale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
courttv.com/case files nurenberg.

fcit.coed.usf.edu/holocaust/recource/gallery/n 1945 htm.
i hope this is what you're looking for.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengele

I'm glad you asked this question. I'd never thought of looking this information up online.