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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933. They believed that Germans were "racially superior." They claimed that Jews were "inferior" and a threat to the so-called German racial community.
Defeating evil requires more than just guns. It requires guts, intelligence and education. These people fought Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in a number of creative and powerful ways.
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was a Polish woman who singlehandedly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust. She was disturbed at what was happening around her in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1939 so she forged a pass into the ghetto everyday and convinced parents to let her smuggle their children out for a better chance at keeping them safe. She gave the children new names and places to stay like orphanages, churches and convents.
However, the Nazis discovered her operations and took her prisoner, breaking her feet and legs in an attempt to interrogate her and gain information on the whereabouts of the Jewish children she had smuggled. But she told them nothing and was sentenced to death. She was however, saved by the Polish underground. She passed away at the age of 98.
Adolfo Kaminsky
While just a teen during the second World War, Kaminsky saved thousands of lives from the Nazis by forging passports. In 1944, Kaminsky was 18 years old living in Paris. He was the lab director for a group of people making up a secret Jewish resistance cell. They fabricated passports for children and families who were about to go to concentration camps. To avoid any kind of suspicion, they told their neighbors they were painters so they wouldn't question the smell of the chemicals. By his 19th birthday, Kaminsky had saved thousands of lives by creating fake passports and helping people to get into hiding or help them cross the border. He went on to forge papers for people in practically every major conflict of the mid 20th century.
The Night Witches
The Night Witches were the daring female pilots who bombed Nazis by night. They flew under the cover of darkness in bare-bones plywood biplanes. They braved bullets and frostbite in the air, while battling skepticism and sexual harassment on the ground. They were feared and hated so much by the Nazis that any German airman who downed one was automatically awarded the prestigious Iron Cross medal.
The pioneering all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment dropped more than 23,000 tons of bombs on Nazi targets. And in doing so, they became a crucial Soviet asset in winning World War II.
The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or “night witches,” because the whooshing noise their wooden planes made resembled that of a sweeping broom.
The women faced skepticism from some of the male military personnel who believed they added no value to the combat effort. Their equipment wasn’t much better.
Despite being the most highly decorated unit in the Soviet Air Force during the war, the Night Witches regiment was disbanded six months after the end of World War II. And when it came to the big victory-day parade in Moscow, they weren’t included—because, it was decided, their planes were too slow.
Jasper Maskelyne
Known as the "War Illusionist" Maskelyne used illusions and magic to fool Nazis in the WWII.
Jasper Maskelyne was never thought to be much of a soldier. His prime occupation before the war had been carrying forward his family's legacy. They were all magicians. On the stage, their name commanded respect. But in uniform, no one really cared about him.
He spent most of his time entertaining the troops. But he wanted to make a difference. Jasper realised that his mastery of illusions can help with camouflage.
And thus, he became the War Magician. Soon he collected a group of like-minded people viz a carpenter, an electrician, an architect, a chemist, a stage-scenery maker, a painter and a picture restorer. They were tagged as the Magic Gang.
He used lights to blind the pilots. He came up with a device that would convert the lights into strobe lights. The impact was phenomenal. Using mirrors and lights along the Suez Canal, not only did he hide it from enemy eyes, he disoriented enemy pilots resulting in crashes.
Adolf Hitler's main man, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel AKA the Desert Fox, was conquering parts of Africa like nobody's business. The British were desperate for a win. Jasper and his men created, in his own words, - "dummy men, dummy steel helmets, dummy guns by the ten thousand, dummy tanks, dummy shell flashes by the million, dummy aircraft..." It was the perfect replica of a large regiment. Using sound effects and other illusions, Jasper and his men diverted a majority of the German to the south. Hitler's main man had been tricked by a master of illusions. Jasper did not fire a single bullet, but he did make Rommel disappear.
When Jasper performed for small audiences, they all applauded in awe. The sad part is that when he performed on the biggest stage of them all, the Great War, he was never appreciated. He was never formally recognised. The magician, just like his illusions, disappeared in the pages of history.
Juan Pujol Garcia
Juan Pujol Garcia: The WWII double agent who secretly controlled the war.
When World War II broke out, he was running a dumpy, one-star hotel in Madrid. He had been a mediocre soldier and had admitted he was ill-suited to warfare; so his motives for approaching the British to offer his services are unclear. The British seemed to think that a military deserter, ex-chicken farmer, and failed businessman would not be of much use in the war and turned him away. However, Garcia was determined to participate in the war, and he would repeat his request to the British on three separate instances, only to be refused each time.
However he later started working for both Britain and Germany as a spy. He had gained the trust of the Nazis and was in contact with them. But now he had to supply them with misinformation. By combining publicly available information from newsreels, magazines, and tourists guides, Garcia fabricated seemingly realistic reports of life in London and British activities, ostensibly fabricated by an entirely fictional spy network he had accumulated in London. Despite all of this, his mocked-up reports were widely believed.
Working with British intelligence, Garcia invented 27 fictional sub-agents from whom he attributed the various pieces of intel that he cobbled together into coded, handwritten reports he sent to the Germans and later over the radio.
By inventing a fake army and controlling the flow of information to the Nazis, Garcia ranks among one of the most influential figures of the war. His identity as a double agent was never revealed until decades after, which might explain why so little is heard of him. To be safe, he faked his death from malaria in 1949 and moved to Venezuela to run a bookshop.
William Stuart-Houston
William Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool in 1911, the son of Hitler’s older half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. In addition to being a liar, Alois was much like his father; a tyrannical man who beat his son. In 1929, Alois sent for William, and he met his uncle at a Nazi Party rally. However, the German dictator described him as "loathsome". He moves to the US and sent a letter to the president begging to join the military. They allowed William to serve. William wrote an article for Look magazine entitled “Why I Hate My Uncle,” which of course made him even more unpopular in Germany.
Later, he and his wife had four sons all of whom decided not to have children in order to end Hitler bloodline.
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