1931-1945

By Demetrius Key

  • Star-Spangled Banner

    Star-Spangled Banner
    The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
    Hattie Wyatt caraway was the first woman elected to the U.S. senate

  • Nazi

    Nazi
    Franklin D. was election to be a new democratic governor of New York.
    On July 1932, the Nazi Party became the largest political party in the Reichstag with 230 representatives

  • Weimar Republic

    Weimar Republic
    In the final years of the Weimar Republic (1930 to 1933), the government ruled by emergency decree because it could not attain a parliamentary majority.

  • ANTISEMITIC GRAFFITI IN DANZIG

    ANTISEMITIC GRAFFITI IN DANZIG
    Antisemitic graffiti on Jewish-owned businesses on a Danzig street in 1935. The local Nazi Party had dominated the Danzig Senate since 1933

  • ODESSA

    ODESSA
    A Black Sea port in the southwestern Ukraine, Odessa had a population of nearly 600,000 in 1939. Roughly 180,000 were Jews, about 30 percent of the total. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis allies, including Romania, invaded the Soviet Union. In August 1941, Romanian troops set siege to Odessa

  • THERESIENSTADT

    THERESIENSTADT
    The SS and police began deporting Czech Jews from Theresienstadt on January 9, 1942.
    Over the next ten months, 32 transports carried 42,005 people, most of them Protectorate Jews, from Theresienstadt to locations in the east

  • HARVEST FESTIVAL

    HARVEST FESTIVAL
    Erntefest" was the code name for the German action which aimed to murder all remaining Jews in the Lublin District of the General Government.

  • HERZOGENBUSCH SUBCAMPS

    HERZOGENBUSCH SUBCAMPS
    Millions of people suffered and died in camps, ghettos, and other sites during the Holocaust. The Nazis and their allies oversaw more than 44,000 camps, ghettos, and other sites of detention, persecution, forced labor, and murder.