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THE TERROR BEGINS
- German Communist Party in a basement jail of the SA barracks in Berlin.
- Communists, Socialists, and other political opponents of the Nazis were among the first to be rounded up
- imprisoned by the regime.
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FROM CITIZENS TO OUTCASTS
The Nazis initiated a boycott of
Jewish shops and businesses. -
TAKEOVER OF POWER
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NAZI RACE LAWS
future German citizenship to those
of “German or kindred blood,” and excluded those
deemed to be “racially” Jewish or Roma (Gypsy). -
THE “SCIENCE” OF RACE
According to their ideology, the “Aryan race,” to which
the German people allegedly belonged, stood at the top
of this racial hierarchy. -
“NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”
the morning after Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”). On
the night of November 9–10, -
MOBILE KILLING SQUADS
About a quarter of all Jews
who perished in the Holocaust
were shot by SS mobile killing
squads and police battalions
following the German invasion
of the Soviet Union in June
1941. -
POSTWAR TRIALS
Beginning in October 1945, 22 major war criminals
were tried on charges of crimes against peace, war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to
commit such crimes.