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3 days ago · Holocaust - Nazi Persecution, Genocide, Concentration Camps: After Kristallnacht in 1938 even more discrimination was directed at Jews, eventually leading to confinement in ghettos. People considered inferior by the Nazis, such as Jews, Roma, and homosexuals, were sent to concentration camps.
2 days ago · Nazi Germany, [h] officially known as the German Reich [i] and later the Greater German Reich, [j] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
5 days ago · Research and education are more important than ever to inform today’s society about the Holocaust, concentration camps, forced labor and the consequences of Nazi crimes. The Arolsen Archives are building up a comprehensive online archive so that people all over the world can access the documents and obtain information.
2 days ago · Adolf Hitler reviewing German troops in Poland, September 1939. Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria—died April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany) was the leader of the Nazi Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor ( Kanzler) and Führer of Germany (1933–45).
2 days ago · Scholarly research on the Holocaust, carried out in many disciplines but especially in the field of history, is dynamic and constantly progressing; several giant leaps in its expansion can be discerned, mainly since the end of the 1970s.
5 days ago · The Historiography of the Holocaust. In 1987 Michael Marrus completed The Holocaust in History. (1) A succinct, cogent, yet apparently comprehensive study, it appeared to cover the gamut of the subject, with state-of-the-art research and exposition of the critical disputes closely entwined.
5 days ago · Holocaust - Art, Memory, Trauma: All forms of art have been used to express the horror of the Holocaust. Viewed as a manifestation of absolute evil, the Holocaust is an essential topic of ethical discourse in multiple fields and is part of educational curricula. Many countries observe Holocaust remembrance days each year.
