Nazi war crimes

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, approximately two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek death camps in occupied Poland. Concurrent Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups, such as the Romani and Soviet POWs.

8 September 1941 – 27 January 1944 blockade of Leningrad by the Axis

unethical experiments on human subjects

order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941

German industrialist (1907–1967)

directive by Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941

Forcible movements of prisoners between Nazi camps

1923 passenger liner

slavery and force labor under Nazi rule

Nazi looting in WWII

destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres

widespread famine in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands caused by the occupation

Brothels for members of the Wehrmacht and the SS

Secret order issued by Adolf Hitler for the execution of Allied commandos captured in Europe and Africa

crimes carried out by the German armed forces during World War II

The central SS administrative and managerial authority for the concentration camps of the Third Reich

mass murder of the Jews in Croatia, part of the Holocaust

1943 Type VIIC submarine

1941–45 German scheme to recruit Soviet POWs for espionage behind Russian lines

Illegal execution of two German deserters in 1945

April May strikes

German historian (1955- )

Norwegian Hurtigruten ship sunk under controversial circumstances by German bombers during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign

thumb|300px|A prisoner who was shot and killed at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex. The Postenpflicht (German: "Duty of guards") was a general order issued to SS-Totenkopfverbände guards in Nazi concentration camps to summarily execute insubordinate prisoners. The order required guards to shoot prisoners who engaged in resistance or escape attempts, without warning; failing to do so would result in dismissal or arrest. The Postenpflicht was originally issued on October 1, 1933, for guards at Dachau concentration camp, but was later extended to other concentration camps.

1925 mail and hospital ship

thumb|upright|Grave at Trandumskogen Trandumskogen is a forest located in Ullensaker, Akershus county, Norway. It was the site of one of the first discoveries in May 1945 of German mass graves in Norway. The German executioner Oskar Hans was the officer in command of the unit performing the executions.

German counter resistance murders in Norway