9. Systematic Killing of the Handicapped Five handicapped prisoners photographed at Buchenwald concentration camp for propaganda purposes. 1938 – 1940 Hartheim Castle was a euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection. Hartheim, Austria
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11. Evil Personified versus Righteous Among the Nations In 1968, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Yad Vashem) asked Corrie to plant a tree in the Garden of Righteousness, in honor of the many Jewish lives her family saved. Corrie’s tree stands there today along with a plaque in her memory. Hitler was responsible for the death of more than 5.9 million Jews (close to two thirds of Europe’s Jewish population).
12. Black Victims of the Holocaust The Nazis did not uphold the regulations imposed by the Geneva Convention in the treatment of black prisoners. Black prisoners of war faced illegal incarceration and mistreatment at the hands of the Nazis.
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23. “ No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century… “… but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.” - Benjamin Netanyahu