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4 days ago · Hatred and discrimination against Jews, known as antisemitism, had long existed in Europe by the time the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933. For centuries, Jews faced persecution, expulsions, and violence based on religious, economic, and racial prejudices. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the pseudo-scientific ideas of Social ...
4 days ago · Under Himmler‘s leadership, the SS grew from a small bodyguard unit to a massive organization that controlled the concentration camps and carried out the "Final Solution" – the systematic murder of six million European Jews. By 1944, the SS had over 800,000 members and was one of the most feared and powerful institutions in the Third Reich.
2 days ago · The documentary features Hans’ son and Rudolf Höss’ grandson, Kai — a pastor at a church in Stuttgart that serves the U.S. military — as he pushes Hans to stare down his own father’s ...
6 days ago · The Holocaust. The Holocaust marked the culmination of centuries of anti-semitism, which resulted in the genocide of millions of Jewish people across Europe. Beginning with general resources & histories of anti-semitism, this section explores pivotal events within the Holocaust, such as the rise of Nazi Germany, the mass immigration and rescue ...
5 days ago · The exhibition "Flossenbürg Concentration Camp 1938-1945" documents and narrates the history of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and its subcamps. At the center are the people from all over Europe who were taken to the Flossenbürg camp complex. Numerous documents, objects, quotes and personal testimonies of the former inmates provide a ...
5 days ago · In 1990 Robert Gellately completed a major study which investigated the role of the secret police in Nazi Germany. His book, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945 (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 1995) demonstrated conclusively that the much feared and allegedly omnipresent Gestapo in fact relied on widespread public support to function effectively.
4 days ago · Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
