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In March 1933, Adolf Hitler addressed the first session
of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his
appointment as chancellor. -
Communists, Socialists, and other political opponents
of the Nazis were among the first to be rounded up and
imprisoned by the regime. went from 1933 to 1939 -
Sections of Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion
and conquest of Poland by the German military begun
in September 1939 that propelled Europe into World
War II. -
CONCENTRATION CAMP UNIVERSE
Jews from Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia
(present-day Ukraine) are taken off the trains and
assembled at the largest of the killing centers,
Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
For several weeks in October 1943, Danish rescuers
ferried 7,220 Jews to safety across the narrow strait
to neutral Sweden. -
DEATH MARCHES
This photo taken from the
window of a private home shows
prisoners being marched from one
concentration camp to another. In
response to the deteri-orating
military situation in late 1944,
German authorities ordered the
evacuation of concentration camp
prisoners away from advancing
Allied troops to the interior of
Germany. -
POSTWAR TRIALS
Leading Nazi officials listen to proceedings at the
International Military Tribunal, the best known of the
postwar trials, in Nuremberg, Germany, before judges
representing the Allied powers. -
GENOCIDE DID NOT END WITH THE HOLOCAUST
Refugees from the 2003–2005 genocide in Darfur,
Sudan, above, struggle to survive after being
displaced from their villages.
