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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
Following inconclusive elections, President Hindenburg invited Hitler to become chancellor of Germany. -
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
An early view of the Dachau concentration camp. Columns of prisoners are visible behind the barbed wire. -
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
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
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
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.