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…“We shall never be rough and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals...” -SS…

…instruments, with no risk of harming people and property. He was then arrested by the SS and the Gestapo for crimes against the state because he kept on talking about building rockets which would go into orbit around the Earth and perhaps go to the Moon. His crime…

…by train. Though Sobibor was a death camp, newcomers were told it was strictly a labor camp. The men and women were divided in two groups. Women and children on one side and men fifteen and older on the other. The SS officers then asked for all…

…instruments, with no risk of harming people and property. He was then arrested by the SS and the Gestapo for crimes against the state because he kept on talking about building rockets which would go into orbit around the Earth and perhaps go to the Moon. His crime…

…of these roles, a young inexperienced gunslinger who used to be a farmer. In both movies the main character finds an old friend: Shichiroji (SS), Harry (MS), and a quiet, older and tremendously experienced samurai/gunslinger: Kyuzo (SS), O'Reilly (MS). Once six…

…periodically. The kapos and sonderkommandos were supervised by members of the SS; altogether 6000 SS members worked at Auschwitz. By 1943 resistance organizations had developed in the camp. These organizations helped a few prisoners escape; these escapees…

…beaten and humiliated, capriciously killed. Jewish property and businesses were summarily destroyed, or appropriated by the SS and sold to Nazi investors, one of whom was Oskar Schindler. An ethnic German from what is now Moravia in the Czech Republic…

…they were not considered people and thus had no rights to anything, not even freedom of speech. In Schindler?s List a woman was confronted by an SS officer and told them that the foundation needed to be rebuilt unless they wanted it to crash. She was then shot…

…. This program is called genocide. Not only Jews would be exterminated, but Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the mentally impaired, the physically impaired, and the incurably ill would fall as victims to Hitler's plan. Jews were hunted down by Hitler's SS men to have…

…the crematory. Some of the young men talk about revolting but are silenced by their elders. Then, everyone is forced to march past SS officer Dr. Mengele, who uses a baton to pick out who will remain alive and who will go to the crematory. Dr. Mengele looks cruel yet…