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Nazi concentration camp
Pozna?
occupied Poland
World War II
forts
Prussian
Festung Posen
Je?yce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB8.JPG
German invasion of Poland
Arthur Greiser
Wielkopolska
intelligentsia
Wielkopolska Uprising (1918–1919)
Silesian Uprisings
gas chamber
psychiatric hospitals
Owi?ska
Gestapo
Übergangslager
Dachau
Auschwitz
Polish Underground State
Himmler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB3.JPG
SS
United Kingdom
France
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB6.JPG
typhus
?abikowo
Telefunken
www.poznan.pl
http://www.deathcamps.org/euthanasia/pic/bigpoznanfortvii.jpg
http://www.deathcamps.org/euthanasia/pic/bigfort7gc.jpg
Fort VII
read here
http://www.deathcamps.org/euthanasia/pic/bigpoznanfortvii2.jpg
http://www.deathcamps.org/euthanasia/pic/bigwendland.jpg
memorial
http://www.deathcamps.org/euthanasia/owinska.html
KZ Fort VII
Owinska
Heinrich Himmler
RSHA
Chelmno
gas van
promotion to a SS-Sturmbannführer
September 23 
1911
Fuerth
April 15 
1945
Austria
SS officer
Nazi Party
SS
Dachau concentration camp
Adjutant
Theodor Eicke
camp commander
concentration camps
Inspectorate of Concentration Camps
Röhm-Putsch
Herbert Lange
Fort VII
occupied Poland
Poznan
war against the Soviet Union
Einsatzkommando 10a of Einsatzgruppe D
Soviet Union
Reich Security Main Office
Chief of Security Police and Security Service
Lange
Owinska Mental Home
Fort VII
http://www.deathcamps.org/gas_chambers/pic/bigfort7.jpg
http://www.7fort.lt/wp-content/gallery/genocvido-auku-kapaviete/img_5978.jpg
Fort III destroyed by German forces in WW1
Fort IX courtyard
Hundreds of Jews are gathered near the entrance to Fort VII
Jews gathered for Execution at Fort VII
Jewish women with bodies of executed men outside the VII Fort
Transport list of Jews from Vienna Sent to Kovno and murdered in Fort IX
Einsatz Action
EK 3 1941 Report on Executions of Jews from Vienna  in Fort IX
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/einsatz/images/Jager%20Report%20on%20Executions%20in%20Fort%20IX%20EK%203%201941%20Executions%20of%20Jews%20from%20Vienna.jpg
Outside the walls of the Ninth Fort
Messages scrawled by Jewish prisoners on a wall inside Fort IX, shortly before their execution
…more scrawled messages
Jewish Police make one final assemble prior to their execution at IX Fort
Fort IV after Liberation
A Rabbi conducts a memorial service at Fort IX ten months after the liberation
Karl Jäger
Jews are led to the site of their execution by Lithuanian militiamen
Lithuanian Jews and a German Wehrmacht soldier during the Holocaust in Lithuania. June 24, 1941
Mass murderer Karl Jäger
List of Jewish populations by country used at the Wannsee Conference showing Latvia with 3,500 left alive
Walter Stahlecker
Photo of the Riga Ghetto take from outside the ghetto's fence, 1941-1943
Rudolf Batz
Jewish women forced to strip naked prior to being shot in Latvia
Anti-Jewish measures ordered by the German naval commander in Libau, July 5, 1941 (click text to enlarge)
Jews forced to undress prior to shooting in Libau, Latvia
Jews detained in Liepaja, Latvia, before they were shot to death.
Jewish women being shot at the killing pits in Liepaja
A group of Jewish women and children waiting their turn to be shot at the dunes in Skede
Jewish children marched to the execution pits at Liepaja
The 21st Latvian Police Battalion assemble a group of Jewish women for execution on a beach near Liepaja.
Jewish women forced to pose for a photo prior to being shot at Liepaja
This image, taken in Liepaja, Latvia, in July 1941, shows native Latvians armed and guarding Jews prior to them being driven to the killing pits
Memorial at the mass graves in Bikernieki forest
The Kaiserwald camp where many of the surviving Latvian Jews were sent in 1943
Sicherheitspolizei
Sicherheitsdienst
German
Reichskommissariat Ostland
Einsatzgruppe A
Einsatzgruppen
death squads
the Holocaust
German-occupied
Eastern Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_used_to_illustrate_Stahlecker%27s_report_to_Heydrich_on_January_31,_1942.jpg
Sternenfels
Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund
Organisation Consul
Nazi Party
Württemberg
incorporation of Austria
Danube
Vienna
Standartenführer
Reinhard Heydrich
Auswärtiges Amt
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Brigadeführer
Karl Hermann Frank
Norway
Oberführer
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
Nazi Germany
security police
Army Group North
Baltic states
Russia
Leningrad
Jews
Gypsies
Communists
Berlin
Soviet partisans
Krasnogvardeysk, Russia
Swiss
SS
genocide
Schaffhausen
Switzerland
World War I
Iron Cross
Ludwigsburg
Ravensburg
Münster
invasion of the Netherlands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kiev_Jew_Killings_in_Ivangorod_(1942).jpg
Kaunas
Lithuania
mass murder
Jäger Report
Reichenberg
Sudetenland
Allies
Hohenasperg