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1 April 1933. Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses begins. 7 April 1933. The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, banning most Jews and Communists from government employment, is passed. Shortly after, a similar law affects lawyers, doctors, tax consultants, musicians, and notaries. 22 April 1933.
Jews are deported from Würzburg, 25 April 1942. Deportation occurred in public, and was witnessed by many Germans. [1] The question of how much Germans (and other Europeans) knew about the Holocaust whilst it was being executed is a matter of debate by historians. [2][3][4] In Nazi Germany, it was an open secret among the population by 1943 ...
The Paper Clips Project, by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee town of Whitwell, created a monument for the Holocaust victims of Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as a simple 8th-grade project to study other cultures, and then evolved into one gaining worldwide attention. At last count, over 30 million paper clips had ...
The Holocaust in Germany. Jews are deported from Würzburg to the Lublin District, General Governorate, 25 April 1942. The Holocaust in Germany was the systematic persecution, deportation, imprisonment, and murder of Jews in Germany as part of the Europe-wide Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The term typically refers only to the areas ...
The story was of how Towers' infantry division came upon a Nazi 'death train' full of 2,500 Holocaust victims stranded near the German city of Magdeburg on April 13, 1945, and liberated them ...
Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust. The Holocaust —the murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945—is the most-documented genocide in history. Although there is no single document which lists the names of all Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, there is conclusive evidence that about six million Jews were ...
The Holocaust in Austria was the systematic persecution, plunder and extermination of Jews by German and Austrian Nazis from 1938 to 1945. [1] Part of the wider- Holocaust, pervasive persecution of Jews was immediate after the German annexation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. An estimated 70,000 Jews (nearly 40%) were murdered and 125,000 ...
The Posen speeches were two speeches made by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS of Nazi Germany, on 4 and 6 October 1943 in the town hall of Posen (Poznań), in German-occupied Poland. The recordings are the first known documents in which a member of the Hitler Cabinet spoke of the ongoing extermination of the Jews in extermination camps.