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Browse a compilation of clips from film presented as evidence during the Nuremberg trial.
The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, w...
The “Great Depression” is the term used for a severe economic recession which began in the United States in 1929. By 1933, nearly 15 million Americans were unemployed.
Approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe in 1933, the year Hitler came to power. This number represented 1.7% of Europe's total population and more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population. By 1945, most European Jews—2 out of every 3—...
Cover and pages from a mimeographed program booklet distributed at the International Mili...
Although Jews were the main target of Nazi hatred, they were not the only group persecuted. Ot...
The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The Holoca...
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi r...
In January 1945, the Third Reich stood on the verge of military defeat. As Allied forces appro...
With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced...
In designing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the late architect James Ingo Freed,...
In July 1938, delegates from 32 countries met in Evian, France for a conference on the refugee crisis. The delegates expressed sympathy for the Jews who were seeking to flee Nazi persecution. Most countries, however, refused to admit more refugees.
On December 7, 1941, Japan launched an attack on the American navel base at Pearl Harbor. The following day, the United States declared war on Japan, entering into World War II. World War II in the Pacific ended when Japan surrendered on Sep...
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