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The Nazis falsely accused Jews of causing Germany’s social, economic, political, and cultural problems. In particular, they blamed them for Germany’s defeat in World War I. Some Germans were receptive to these Nazi claims. Anger over the loss of the war and the economic and political crises that followed contributed to increasing antisemitism in German society. -
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After the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933, the United States and other western democracies began to question the morality of supporting the Olympic Games hosted by the regime. For African Americans, this decision had an added dimension. They already faced racism at home and now they had to decide whether to represent the United States in Germany, a country dominated by a racist dictatorship. -
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany began World War II (1939–1945) by attacking Poland -
The holocaust ended in May 1945, when the Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as “the Shoah,” the Hebrew word for “catastrophe.”