The Holocaust: Difference between revisions

{{Quote|The Holocaust is very much alive. The wounds are still there. The scars are still there. The influence is still there.|Avner Shalev}}After all the concentration camps were liberated by the Americans, British/Canadians, and the Soviets; most of highest members of the Nazi party and the SS were standing on trial in the Nuremberg trials. Many that were involved in the Holocaust were sentenced to death for [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]], only a few were sentenced to prison, for example [[Karl Dönitz]], [[Albert Speer]] and [[Rudolf Hess]]. Other Nazis that were involved in the genocide, such as [[Hermann Göring]] and [[Heinrich Himmler]], committed suicide before they even got to trial; others were captured and put into Soviet labor camps or were executed, some were executed in the concentration camps after the liberation. Some Nazis were able to evade capture entirely, including [[Adolf Eichmann]], [[Josef Mengele]], [[Martin Bormann]], and [[Heinrich Müller]]. Eichmann would be captured in South America by the Israeli Mossad decades later, while Mengele managed to stay in hiding and died in Brazil in 1979 without ever facing justice. Bormann would die shortly after the war ended but his remains would go unidentified for three decades. Müller vanished completely and was never seen alive again; his ultimate fate remains unknown to this day.