June 12, 1943:
- June 11: "SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders stepped-up deportations of Jews from Polish ghettos to death camps.
- June 12: "The Jewish community at Berezhany, Ukraine, is murdered.
- "In the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, the chiefs of Jewish police are forced to witness Nazi executions of recaptured ghetto escapees: 23-year-old Hersch Fejgelis, 29-year-old Mordecai Standarowicz, and 31-year-old Abram Tandowski."
- Josef Mengele
"The notorious "Angel of Death," Josef Mengele determined the fate of thousands of Jews shipped to Auschwitz.
As chief doctor of the extermination camp, Mengele supervised the selections for the gas chambers and conducted horrific medical experiments.
"Mengele, who received his medical degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1938, joined the staff of the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Race Research, where he specialized in the study of twins and race science.
During the war years, Mengele joined the Waffen-SS and served as a medical officer in France and Russia.
He was appointed chief doctor of Auschwitz in May 1943.
"At Auschwitz, Mengele pursued his pseudoscientific research and personally selected victims from the steady stream of arrivals to the camp.
People with deformities were immediately killed and sent to Mengele's lab for study.
All twins became the subjects of his painful and grotesque experiments.
"After the war Mengele was mistakenly released by U.S. authorities and eventually made his way to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mengele was rumored to have drowned in 1978.
An international team of forensics pathologists performed an autopsy on an exhumed body in 1985 and concluded that there was a high probability that it was indeed Mengele's last remains."
"As Allied bombing continued to disable or destroy factories on German soil, German industrialists sought new locations where slave labor could keep production running.
Following the bombing of the Krupp fuse plant in Essen in March 1943, a new Krupp factory was built at Auschwitz.
These slave laborers do the dirty work."