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Sep 20, 2019 · After the war began, German foreign policy aimed to strengthen existing alliances, build new ones, and obtain the cooperation of its allies and of the nations it conquered not only in Germany’s war effort but also in its racial policies, especially the annihilation of the Jews.
The selected themes—from foreign policy to consumer culture to racial policy—provide access to a diversity of experiences and developments that are too often reduced to a singular focus on Hitler and his genocidal policies.
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May 2, 2024 · Six million Jews and millions of others, including Roma, Slavs, political dissenters, LGBTQ+ folx, POW’s, and people with mental or physical disabilities were murdered by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945.
Germany - Nazi, Holocaust, WW2: When Hitler finally became chancellor, on January 30, 1933, it was not on the crest of a wave of popular support but as the result of backroom political intrigue by Schleicher, Papen, and the president’s son, Oskar von Hindenburg.
These excerpts point to an important and understudied factor that informed Hitler’s and the Nazis’ worldview: Hitler frequently looked beyond Europe to inform his racial thinking, to understand the place of Germany in a longer history of the world, and to conceive of Germany’s future as a global power. Show all ⌵.
Although far from a comprehensive timeline of the Holocaust and all that happened, this list of key historical events helps show the progression of persecution to mass murder, relevant events of WWII, and the subsequent liberation of concentration camps.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed: non-aggression pact between Soviet Union and Germany. September 1. Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland. September 21. Heydrich issues directives to establish ghettos in German-occupied Poland. October 12. Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland. October 28
