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Hitler's Rise to Power
The "Enabling Act" was passed offering Hitler, previously the chancellor, emergency powers to rule. -
Acts of Aggression Against the Jewish
The Nazis created posters and other forms of propaganda to boycott Jewish businesses across Germany. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws restricted the citizenship of Jewish people and prohibited marriage between Jews and non-Jews. A chart was used to distinguish Jewish people based on their heritage, i.e. grandparents. -
Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass")
A Jewish resident of Germany assassinated a German diplomat after the latter harassing the former's parents. As a result, the Nazi regime vandalized thousands of Jewish businesses and structures. Others were killed or sent to concentration camps. -
America's Response to Refugees
Passenger ship St. Louis sailed from Germany to the Americas carrying mostly Jewish passengers. Both the U.S. government and Cuba denied the people entry into the country, thus St. Louis returned to Europe. Some of the refugees were later killed in the Holocaust. -
Living in Ghettos
Ghettos were city districts meant to segregate and control the Jewish population from the non-Jewish. German authorities sealed the Warsaw ghetto, restricting the livelihood of more than 300,000 Jews in the district. -
Final Solution for the Jewish
Jews were crammed into deportation trains sent towards concentration camps. Many died during the journey and the survivors were sent to Nazi killing centers. The majority of Jews who entered the centers were murdered in gas chambers, their bodies cremated to hide evidence. -
Postwar Trials (The Last Chapter)
A trial was held for the German military officials and accessories to the mass genocide of Jewish people. All were acquitted of war crimes and various others by the International Military Tribunal.