Flashcards: Nazi war crimes

Ostarbeiter (meaning "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II.

Einsatzgruppen (German for "task forces", "deployment groups"; singular Einsatzgruppe; official full name Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD) were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II.

The 4th Panzer Division (English: 4th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Wehrmacht, during World War II, established in 1938.

In World War II, Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps (Lagerbordell) to create an incentive for prisoners to collaborate, although these institutions were used mostly by Kapos, "prisoner functionaries" and the criminal element, because regular inmates, penniless and emaciated, were usually too debilitated and wary of exposure to Schutzstaffel (SS) schemes.

The Ardeatine massacre, or Fosse Ardeatine massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine) was a mass killing carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen.

The Ascq massacre is a massacre of 86 men on 1 April 1944 in Ascq, France, by the Waffen-SS during the Second World War.

The 17th Infantry Division was an infantry division of Nazi Germany, active before and during World War II.

German submarine U-852 was a Type IXD2 U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.

The 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf (Skull and Crossbones), also known during its existence as the 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf or the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, was one of 38 divisions of the Waffen-SS – the armed wing of the National Socialist German Workers' Party that served alongside the Wehrmacht army during World War II without being formally part of it.

The 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, also known as the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (1944), or simply the Dirlewanger Brigade, was a military unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar; Russian: Бабий Яр, Babiy Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union.

The Sajmište concentration camp (pronounced [sâjmiːʃtɛ]) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp during World War II.

The Commissar Order (German: Kommissarbefehl) was an order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa.

Robert-Espagne is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Action 14f13, also called "Sonderbehandlung ("special treatment") 14f13", was a campaign by Nazi Germany to murder Nazi concentration camp prisoners.

The Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (German: Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen or German: Zentrale Stelle or German: Z Commission) is Germany's main agency responsible for investigating war crimes during Nazi rule.

Maillé is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

The Nuremberg trials (German: die Nürnberger Prozesse) were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes.

MTB 345 was an experimental motor torpedo boat constructed in 1941, which saw limited service with the Royal Navy before being transferred to the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy on 16 March 1943.

War crimes of the Wehrmacht were those carried out by the German armed forces during World War II.

(This article is about the 1944 massacre. For the village and surrounding commune, see Oradour-sur-Glane (commune).) On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in the Nazi-occupied France was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company.

The Lidice massacre was a complete destruction of the village of Lidice, in what is now the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

The Dzyatlava massacres (Zhetel massacres in Yiddish, Diatłowo massacres, Dziatława massacres; or Zdzięcioł massacres in Polish) were two consecutive mass shooting actions committed three months apart during the Holocaust.

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre (German: NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar) was located at a psychiatric hospital in the German town of Hadamar near Limburg in Hesse from 1941 to 1945.