Nazi Party: Media
political party, Germany
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Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the anti-Semitism they fomented in pre-WWII Germany
In 1933 Adolf Hitler's National Socialists were voted into power, and the campaign...
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The role of propaganda in Hitler's rise to power
Learn how the Nazi Party used a canny mix of propaganda and terror to ascend to power...
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What led to the fall of Germany's Weimar Republic?
Overview of the Weimar Republic's demise.
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Auschwitz trials in West Germany explained
Overview of the Auschwitz trials of 1963–65 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany.
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Rise of Hitler and Nazi terror tactics
Learn how Adolf Hitler secured dictatorial power in Germany.
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Youth in Hitler's Reich: The abuse of a generation
Overview of the Hitler Youth.
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Night of Broken Glass: Nazi persecution of Jews
Learn about Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), November 9–10, 1938.
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Examining the Nürnberg trials for Nazi war criminals
Learn about the Nürnberg (Nuremberg) trials, held by the International Military Tribunal...
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How did Hitler seize power in Germany?
Overview of Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
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Witness the horrors of the Holocaust committed in Nazi concentration camps as Allied forces liberate survivors
U.S. soldiers, having defeated the German military, come face-to-face with the horrors...
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History and role of the SS in Nazi Germany
Learn about the role of the SS, headed by Heinrich Himmler, in Adolf Hitler's reign...
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Forced labor in Nazi Germany during World War II
Discussion of the Nazi use of forced labourers from occupied territories to supply...
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Images
Third Reich
Adolf Hitler addressing a rally in Germany, c. 1933.
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Beer Hall Putsch
Nazi paramilitary troops participating in the Beer Hall Putsch, November 9, 1923.
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0003 / CC-BY-SA
German troops
A Nazi Party rally at Nürnberg, Germany, in 1933.
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Reichstag fire
The Reichstag burning in Berlin on February 27, 1933.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
newspaper coverage of the Night of the Long Knives
Article about the Night of the Long Knives on the front page of the Pennsylvanian...
Timothy Hughes Rare and Early Newspapers
Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler (left) and Adolf Hitler reviewing an assembly of Hitler's personal...
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Nazism
View of the opening ceremonies at the Deutsche Kampfspiele (“German Combat Games”)...
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Kristallnacht
Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht,...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
Buchenwald concentration camp roll call
Prisoners arrested during Kristallnacht assembled for a roll call at Buchenwald concentration...
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Joseph Goebbels addressing a Nazi rally
Joseph Goebbels addressing a Nazi rally in Reichenberg, Sudetenland (now Liberec,...
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German invasion of Poland in World War II
German soldiers breaking down a barricade at the Polish border at the outbreak of...
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German-American Bund; Nazi Party
A rally by the German-American Bund held in Madison Square Garden, New York City,...
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German-American Bund; Nazi Party
Members of the German-American Bund and Italian American fascists giving the Nazi...
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German-American Bund
German-American Bund parade in New York City, October 30, 1939.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-117148)
Nazi Party
Danish “Free Corps” volunteers arriving in Germany before their departure for the...
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Einsatzgruppen
A member of the Einsatzgruppen, the Nazis' special mobile killing units, preparing...
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Belzec death camp execution victim
A woman about to be executed at the Belzec death camp in German-occupied Poland.
© Leopold Page Photographic Collection/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Nazi Party; neofascism
Members of the American Nazi Party marching outside Greater Mount Hope Baptist Church...
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Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels (on the dais) addressing a crowd in Berlin, February 1, 1935.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (third from right) participating in a Nazi parade in Munich, c. 1930s.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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