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Youth
At a Hitler Youth training facility, members of the organization are instructed on racial hygiene. The world's population was split into superior and inferior "races" by the Nazis. -
Nazi Assault
Following his selection as chancellor, Adolf Hitler spoke at the opening of the German Parliament's (Reichstag) first session in March 1933. -
Camps
As can be seen in this picture of a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp, different prisoner categories within the concentration camp system were identified by colored, triangular badges. -
Citizens to Outcasts
A Jewish-owned department shop has a boycott sign put in its window, which a woman is reading.
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis declared a nationwide boycott of Jewish stores and establishments. -
Cards for Jews
The legislation passed in September 1935, among other things, limited future German citizenship to people with "German or kindred blood" and barred anyone who were thought to be "racially" Jewish or Roma (Gypsy). -
Police
Jews in Vienna line up to get exit permits at a police station.
Many Austrian Jews attempted to flee the country after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, ushering in a period of widespread humiliation, fear, and seizure. -
The Raid
A burning synagogue is seen by locals in Rostock, Germany, the morning after Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"). On the night of November 9–10, 1938, the Nazi government organized anti-Jewish violence that erupted throughout all of Germany. -
St. Louis
After the U.S. government denied permission for the
passengers to enter the United States, the St. Louis
returned to Europe. Some 250 of the refugees would
later be killed in the Holocaust.