EFFEKTENKAMMER: room inside the camps where clothes, personal belongings, items of value, etc., taken away from deportees on their arrival were stored.

EINSATZGRUPPEN: intervention groups. Small mobile Wehrmacht units in charge of executing the Nazis’ “enemies”, primarily Jews and Communists, in the territories they conquered during the 1941 invasion of the USSR.

EMIGRANT: Nazi category of classification in the camps: “stateless person”.

ERZATZ: industrially manufactured substitute product, often of poor quality (examples: synthetic textiles, artificial rubber, margarine, etc.).

EUTHANASIA: From October 1939 to August 1941 the Third Reich carried out a programme of systematically murder of mentally handicapped people (T 4). Monsignor Von Galen, the bishop of Munster, denounced the policy from his pulpit.
This word refers to the Third Reich’s programme of systematically murdering the mentally handicapped (T 4). From his pulpit, Monsignor Von Galen, the Bishop of Munster, spoke out against the programme, which was in effect from October 1939 to August 1941.

EXTERMINATION CAMPS: The Nazis created these camps to kill deportees. Most of the victims were Jewish because the extermination camps were set up in the framework of the “final solution”, in other words the systematic extermination of the Jews, most of whom were killed as soon as they arrived. Treblinka, Sobibor and Chelmno were extermination centres that depended on Auschwitz-Birkenau. There were two camps at Auschwitz: an extermination camp and a concentration camp.

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