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5 days ago · The Wannsee Conference, held six months later, was attended by 15 Nazi senior bureaucrats led by Heydrich and including Adolf Eichmann, chief of Jewish affairs for the Reich Central Security Office. The conference marked a turning point in Nazi policy toward the Jews.
- Michael Berenbaum
3 days ago · From the beginning, Nazis paid particular attention to modern art. In 1930, when they gained a foothold in Thuringia’s state government, the party banned the works of the school’s leaders. Seven years later, the Nazis confiscated several hundred paintings and sculptures, some of which are now on display in one of the exhibition’s galleries.
4 days ago · 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). His worldview revolved around two concepts: territorial expansion and racial supremacy.
- Hitler was of great historical importance—a term that does not imply a positive judgment—because his actions changed the course of the world. He wa...
- Hitler’s rise to power traces to 1919, when he joined the German Workers’ Party that became the Nazi Party. With his oratorical skills and use of p...
- Hitler had an overriding ambition for territorial expansion, which was largely driven by his desire to reunify the German peoples and his pursuit o...
- A key figure of Hitler’s inner circle was Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda and a fervent follower whom Hitler selected to succeed him as cha...
- As Soviet troops entered the heart of Berlin, Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, in his underground bunker. Although there is some specula...
15 hours ago · Von Braun was briefly detained at the "Dustbin" interrogation center at Kransberg Castle, where the elite of Nazi Germany's economic, scientific and technological sectors were debriefed by U.S. and British intelligence officials.
4 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.
- Michael Berenbaum
1 day ago · The paper examines the visual and verbal representation of the Holocaust in Israeli schoolbooks. The relations between images and texts or captions are revealed through a multimodal discourse analysis. Most photographs were transposed to Israeli schoolbooks, unattributed and de-contextualized, from Nazi archives and amateur albums.
15 hours ago · The term "Final Solution" was a euphemism used by the Nazis to refer to their plan for the annihilation of the Jewish people. [4] Some historians argue that the usual tendency of the German leadership was to be extremely guarded when discussing the Final Solution.