Transcript Herbert Langer to his sister Elly Weil , October 27, 1944

War and genocide
Week 15, February 3
Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 27, 1945
General
government
Soup kitchen in Lodz
Murder of the French colonial soldiers
Wehrmacht shooting captives in Serbia
Soviet POWs in the Hemer camp, 1945
Siege of Leningrad
December 12, 1941: “Jewish question: shoot like partisans”
Himmler’s agenda
Chronology Holocaust
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Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Forced emigration, 1933-1941 (1938)
November pogrom, November 9, 1938
Euthanasia: 1939—
Ghettoization, 1939-1942
Onset of deportations, October 1941Beginning of mass murder, brutalization of warfare: summerfall 1941
First gassings, Chełmno: December 1941
Aktion Reinhard
Operation Harvest Festival, November 1943
Deportations from Rhodes, Kos, and Hungary: spring and
summer 1944
Annihilation camps in the Lublin
district
Pale of Settlement
Weeping
woman during
deportations
from Salonica,
March 11, 1944
German Federal Archives
Herbert Langer to his sister Elly Weil , October 27, 1944
“Tomorrow I leave, separated from my other family.
After tomorrow, you shall probably never hear from me
again. I shall disappear in the infinity of all those who
paid for what they knew and found out, what the entire
world spent years observing with arms crossed. We are
at war, being enemies, we must be able to fall as
soldiers.”