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Hindenburg acquiesced and he formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's new chancellor -
The Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of german citizenship, only allowed them to marry other Jews, had to wear symbols, and couldn't publish books or become high-ranking officials. -
Jews wait in line for visas at the police station. following Austria got absorbed by nazi Germany and unleashed a wave of humiliation, terror, and confiscation, many Austrian Jews attempted to leave the country. -
the Nazi-led mobs attacked Jewish communities all over Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. -
the passenger ship St. Louis sailed from Germany to Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jews. the Cuban government revoked their landing certificates. after the U.S. government denied them St. Louis went back to Europe. some 250 of the refuges would later be killed in the Holocaust. -
the Allies were on the offensive and ultimately drove back the German forces -
Trains carrying Jews from german-controlled Europe rolled into one of the six killing centers located along rail lines in occupied Poland. commonly between 80 and 100 people were crammed into railcars of this type. -
this photo shows prisoners being marched from one concentration camp to another . in response to the deteriorating military situation. German authorities ordered the evacuation of the concentration camp.