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![Beginning of the burning of the village of Um Zeifa in Darfur after the Janjaweed looted and attacked. [LCID: steidle8]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/e298e41c-9406-444d-a860-b43f1497199a.jpg.pagespeed.ce.oYL4dMCeFa.jpg)
![Illustration from an antisemitic children's primer. [LCID: 10640c]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4c6348d1-d3e6-4be3-aae5-b12761f4f20a.jpg.pagespeed.ce.ZYVA_641w6.jpg)
![Storefronts of Jewish-owned businesses damaged during the Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") pogrom. [LCID: 4315]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/ed400cf5-3397-4a1f-8cec-2ece2e7a90e7.jpg.pagespeed.ce.4bM_aPl6I0.jpg)
![German boys read an issue of Der Stuermer newspaper posted in a display box at the entrance to a Nazi party headquarters in the Dresden ... [LCID: 64415]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/dd1e64ca-01ff-4dcf-a42d-db5a75faf5ba.jpg.pagespeed.ce.Go2i65tJ_1.jpg)
![Onlookers in front of the Reichstag (German parliament) building after its virtual destruction by fire. [LCID: 75102]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/2672236d-c077-427f-bb9d-46c6b3e687b9.jpg.pagespeed.ce.PzjxySDq_m.jpg)
![A large crowd gathers in front of the Rathaus to hear the exhortations of Julius Streicher during the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's ... [LCID: 06830]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/c788d22c-9de1-4f91-8469-710a89185788.jpg.pagespeed.ce.xCDJItpCF9.jpg)
![Adolf Hitler stands with an SA unit during a Nazi parade in Weimar [LCID: 02286]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/1e5a14c5-9521-4637-845a-55f423097328.jpg.pagespeed.ce.nXwncuV_1R.jpg)
