Holocaust

By reneed.
  • An early concentration camp

    An early concentration camp

    Many of the early concentration camps were improvised. Here, roll call is held for political prisoners aboard a ship used as a floating concentration camp.
  • Hitler Appointed As Chancellor

    Hitler Appointed As Chancellor

    Following inconclusive elections, President Hindenburg invited Hitler to become chancellor of Germany.
  • Boycott of Jewish-owned businesses

    Boycott of Jewish-owned businesses

    Members of the Storm Troopers with boycott signs block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. One of the signs exhorts: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!" Berlin, Germany.
  • Early view of the Dachau concentration camp

    Early view of the Dachau concentration camp

    An early view of the Dachau concentration camp. Columns of prisoners are visible behind the barbed wire.
  • Mauthausen camp quarry

    Mauthausen camp quarry

    A view of the quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor.
  • Page from the Stroop Report

    Page from the Stroop Report

    A page from SS officer Juergen Stroop's report on the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He wrote: "This is what the former Jewish residential quarter looks like after its destruction."
  • Propaganda scene in the Theresienstadt ghetto

    Propaganda scene in the Theresienstadt ghetto

    A scene staged by the Nazis for the International Red Cross inspection of the Theresienstadt ghetto. The people are probably watching a soccer match.
  • Gas chamber at Majdanek

    Gas chamber at Majdanek

    The Nazis had no official policy or intention to exterminate the Jews; and that the poison gas chambers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center never existed.