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On August 1, 1936, Hitler opened the 11th Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. [LCID: 21675]
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From a window in the Reich Chancellery, German president Paul von Hindenburg watches a Nazi torchlight parade in honor of Hitler's ... [LCID: 78583]
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1933: Key Dates
Headquarters of the Nazi Gestapo (secret state police) and of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). [LCID: 80082]
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1934: Key Dates
The last photo of the entire Kusserow family, persecuted for being Jehovah's Witnesses. Bad Lippspringe, Germany, ca. 1935.
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1935: Key Dates
On August 1, 1936, Hitler opened the 11th Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. [LCID: 21675]
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1936: Key Dates
Nazi district leader of Franconia Julius Streicher (right), propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (second from right), and other Nazi ... [LCID: 44149]
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1937: Key Dates
Shattered storefront of a Jewish-owned shop destroyed during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). [LCID: 86838]
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1938: Key Dates
Passengers aboard the "St. Louis." These refugees from Nazi Germany were forced to return to Europe after both Cuba and the US denied ... [LCID: 88245]
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1939: Key Dates
A German postcard showing the entrance to the Lodz ghetto. [LCID: 07065]
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1940: Key Dates
View of a barbed-wire fence separating part of the ghetto in Krakow from the rest of the city. [LCID: 73173]
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1941: Key Dates
View of the Wannsee villa. On January 20, 1942, the villa was the site of the Wannsee Conference, at which the decision to proceed with the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" was announced.
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1942: Key Dates
German soldiers lead Jews captured during the Warsaw ghetto uprising to the assembly point for deportation. [LCID: 5472a]
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1943: Key Dates
A transport of Jews from Hungary arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau. [LCID: 77354]
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1944: Key Dates
View of a section of the barbed-wire fence and barracks at Auschwitz at the time of the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 11058]
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1945: Key Dates
Funeral procession for victims of the Kielce pogrom. [LCID: 14387]
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1946–1948: Key Dates
Film evidence is shown during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. [LCID: 65271]
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Adolf Eichmann: Key Dates
Adolf Hitler arriving at the fourth Nazi Party Congress. [LCID: 09668]
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Adolf Hitler: Key Dates

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