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Takeover of power
Adolf Hitler addresses the first session of the German parliament. -
Night of broken glass
Nazi regime unleashed orchestrated anti-Jewish violence across greater Germany. -
War begins
Sections of Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion
and conquest of Poland by the German military begun
in September 1939 that propelled Europe into World WWII -
American responses
In May 1939 the passenger ship St. Louis. Hamburg sailed from Germany to Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jews. 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. -
Courage to rescue
For several weeks in October 1943, Danish rescuers
ferried 7,220 Jews to safety across the narrow strait
to neutral Sweden. As a result of this national effort, more than 90 per-cent of the Jews in Denmark escaped deportation to Nazi concentration camps. as a group of rescuers code-named the “Helsingør Sewing Club.” -
Mobile killing squad
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 -
Postwar trails
postwar trials, in Nuremberg, Germany, before judges
representing the Allied powers. 22 major war criminals
were tried on charges of crimes against peace, war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit such crimes -
Germany serenaders
The war in Europe ended with the unconditional
surrender of Germany in May 1945.