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Rise of the Weimer’s Republic
As World War I ended, Germany was on brink of chaos. Their leader was forced to leave due to the threat of a Socialist Revolution. In 1919, German leaders drafted a Constitution in the city of Weimer. The Constitution set up a Parliamentary System, led by a Chancellor, or Prime Minister. -
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Adolf Hitler & The Rise Of The Nazis
In 1919, Adolf Hitler joined a small group of Right - Wing Extremists, and despised the Weimer Government. Within a year, he became a leader of the National Socialist German Workers, and he organized the Nazis to fight in the streets against their political enemies. Hitler believed that Germans were superior, and a “Master Race.” His greatest enemies were the Jews, because, of their different beliefs. He defined Jews as, “Anyone with one Jewish Grandparent.” -
Search For Refuge
After the Nazis spread to Austria, humiliation, terror, and, confiscation spread throught the whole country. -
Night Of Broken Glass
Residents of Rostock, Germany, watched their community burn the morning after Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass.”) On the night of November 9, and 10th, 1938, the Nazi Regime vandalized, and, burned Synagogues. 7,500 Jewish Businesses were damaged, or destroyed, 96 Jews were killed, and nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested, and sent to Concentration Camps. -
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. These units carried out the mass murder of Jews, Roma, and Communist government officials. This man was murdered in the presence of members of the German Army, the German Labor Service, and the Hitler Youth. -
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Deportations
Between 1942, and, 1944, trains carrying Jews from German-controlled Europe, rolled into one of the six killing centers located along rail lines in occupied Poland. -
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Preserved Documents
In 1942 - 1943, they buried documents in metal containers, such as milk cans, to preserve a record of Nazi Crimes for future generations. -
Postwar Trials
Leading Nazi Officers listen to proceedings at the International Military Tribunal, the best known of the Postwar Trials, in Nuremberg, Germany, before judges representing the Allied Powers. Beginning in October 1945, 22 major war Criminals were tried on charges of crimes against peace, was crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit such crimes.
