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Nazi assult
Adolf Hitler addressed the first session
of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his
appointment as chancellor. -
citizens of outcast
Many Germans continued to enter
the Jewish stores despite the
boycott, and it was called off after
24 hours. In the subsequent weeks
and months more discriminatory
measures against Jews followed
and remained in effect. -
search of refuge
Jews in Vienna wait in line at a
police station to obtain exit visas.
Following the incorporation of
Austria by Nazi Germany and the unleashing
of a wave of humiliation, terror,
and confiscation, many Austrian
Jews attempted to leave the
country. -
The night of broken glass
the Nazi regime unleashed
orchestrated anti-Jewish violence
across greater Germany. -
American response
the passenger ship St. Louis—seen here
before departing Hamburg—sailed from Germany to
Cuba carried 937 passengers, most of them Jews. -
a war begins
Sections of Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion
and conquest of Poland by the German military began that propelled Europe to World war 2
War 2 -
mobile killing squad
About a quarter of all Jews
who perished in the Holocaust
were shot by SS mobile killing
squads and police battalions
following the German invasion
of the Soviet Union -
depurations
trains carrying Jews
from German-controlled Europe rolled into one of
the six killing centers located along rail lines in
occupied Poland.