The Holocaust in Germany

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

former far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945

town in Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse, Germany

Nazi Germany's programme of euthanasia which claimed 275,000–300,000 victims

thumb|upright=1.1| for the Feder family in Kolín, Czech Republic thumb|upright=1.1| installation in Amsterdam Beethovenstraat 55 on 3 October 2018 A '''''' (; plural ; in English "stumbling block") is a concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. The project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, forced euthanasia, eu

campaign to burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria

The ' often abbreviated as SiPo', is a German term meaning "security police". In the Nazi era, it referred to the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the combined forces of the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police; Kripo) between 1936 and 1939. As a formal agency, the SiPo was incorporated into the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in 1939, but the term continued to be used informally until the end of World War II in Europe.

ocean liner

thumb|"Herzmansky is purely Aryan again!" – The Herzmansky department store in Vienna was confiscated in March 1938 after the [[Anschluss, which also took place that month.]] Aryanization () was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It entailed the transfer of Jewish property into "Aryan" or non-Jewish hands.

history of Jews in Germany

Eugenic concept for the murder of humans declared "unworthy"

1945 Scandinavian rescue operation of concentration camp inmates from Germany

1943 street protest in Nazi Germany

the Nazis' attempted boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in 1933

punitive flight tax imposed on Jews by Hitler's Nazi government

expulsion of up to 17,000 Jewish Poles from Nazi Germany in October 1938

collective guilt attributed to Germany

Nazi-era law which excluded Jews and anti-Nazis from Germany's civil service

Nazi genocide of Jews

Nazi genocide of Jews

public square in Saarbrücken, Germany

former department store in Berlin, Germany

group of Jews in Nazi Germany

public statement issued by Jehovah's Witnesses, written by Joseph F. Rutherford, released on 25 June 1933 due to persecution in Nazi Germany; asserted the Witnesses’ political neutrality and the right to publicly preach

'''''' (, 'Factory Action') is the term for the last major roundup of Jews for deportation from Berlin, which began on 27 February 1943, and ended about a week later. Most of the remaining Jews were working at Berlin plants or for the Jewish welfare organization. The term Fabrikaktion was coined by survivors after World War II; the Gestapo had designated the plan Große Fabrik-Aktion (Large Factory Action). While the plan was not restricted to Berlin, it later became most notable for catalyzing the Rosenstrasse protest, the only mass public demonstration of German citizens which contested the N