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May 1, 1039
the "science" of race
Members of the Hitler Youth receive instruction in
racial hygiene at a Hitler Youth training facility. The
Nazis divided the world’s population into superior and
inferior “races.” -
hitler taking power
In March 1933, Adolf Hitler addressed the first session
of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his
appointment as chancellor. -
the terror begins
Communists, Socialists, and other political opponents
of the Nazis were among the first to be rounded up and
imprisoned by the regime. -
citizens to outcasts
A woman reads a boycott sign
posted on the window of a
Jewish-owned department store.
The Nazis initiated a boycott of
Jewish shops and businesses on
April 1, 1933, across Germany. -
nazi "race" laws
The laws prohibited marriage and sexual
relation-ships between Jews and non-Jews. -
search for the refuge
Jews in Vienna wait in line at a
police station to obtain exit visas.
Following the incorporation of
Austria by Nazi Germany in
March 1938, and the unleashing
of a wave of humiliation, terror,
and confiscation, many Austrian
Jews attempted to leave the
country. -
"the night of the broken glass"
Residents of Rostock, Germany,
view a burning synagogue the
morning after Kristallnacht
(“Night of Broken Glass”).
the Nazi regime unleashed
orchestrated anti-Jewish violence
across greater Germany -
american responses
In May 1939 the passenger ship St. Louis—seen here
before departing Hamburg—sailed from Germany to
Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jews. -
hitler dead
Hitler later killed himself in his bunker by shooting himself in the head in 1945.
