Theresienstadt Concentration facts
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The International Red Cross visited the Concentration Camp Theresienstadt during WWII and - in a complete failure to recognize that the Nazis faked everything - reported life there being nearly "normal". 33,000 people died in Theresienstadt.
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The Nazis produced a film inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp to falsely show the International Red Cross that the inmates were being treated humanely, the camp was 'beautified' and wholesome activities were staged. After filming, most of the actors where sent to Auschwitz and executed.
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After escaping prosecution during the war, Anton Burger, the German SS Commander of Theresienstadt concentration camp adopted the name of a Jewish prisoner he had personally killed in 1944 as an alias. He was never caught and lived the rest of his life in Germany.
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Alice Herz-Sommer was the oldest known Holocaust survivor. Her life was saved by playing piano in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. "As long as they wanted music, they couldn't put us in the gas chamber." She lived to be 110 years old in 2014. (Video in comments.)
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Czech Jews in the Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camp formed a jazz group called the 'Ghetto Swingers' who played over fifty cabaret shows in the camp. After the Red Cross visit of 1944, most of the players were sent to Auschwitz and killed.
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Theresienstadt Concentration Camp was used by Nazi Germany to fool the Red Cross into believing the Holocaust wasn't real
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Der Kaiser von Atlantis, an opera written in 1943-44 by Viktor Ullmann while he was interred at Theresienstadt concentration camp as a satire of Hitler. For composing the opera, Nazi officials sent him to Auschwitz where he was murdered. The lone manuscripts were survived by a fellow prisoner
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the Disney song "Someday My Prince Will Come" first became a jazz song at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during WWII due to the resident swing group The Ghetto Swingers performing a show. They couldn't mention Disney, so they made it "A Concert of Music by Frank Churchill"
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Theresienstadt concentration camp was originally fort turned turned prison. It's arguably most famous prisoner Gavrilo Princip a.k.a. guy who started WW1.
