“Every German athlete should voluntarily participate in strengthening the military might of the German people.” —Hans von Tschammer und Osten, Reich Sports Office Director, April 30, 1933 Hitler ...

The Nazis established many types of camps, including concentration camps, forced-labor camps, transit camps, and five killing centers, among others. By the end of the Holocaust and World War II, ...

This video explains what propaganda is and how Hitler and the Nazis used it to exclude Jews and other groups from German society. They relied on a variety of advertising techniques, like catchy ...

The Nazis and their allies set up ghettos to isolate and control millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Life in the ghettos was overcrowded and miserable, with limited access to food, clean water, ...

After World War II, several nations collaborated to hold the Nuremberg Trials, aiming to bring Nazi leaders to justice for war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.

Die vorliegenden Unterrichtsmaterialien erzählen die Lebensgeschichte von John Werner Friedmann anhand von Originalquellen. John Werner Friedmann war ein junger deutscher Jude, der als einziges ...

From February 6 to February 16, 1936, Germany hosted the Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Yielding to international Olympic leaders' insistence on "fair play," German ...

For two and a half years of her early childhood, Louise Lawrence-Israëls never once played outside or felt the grass under her feet. Louise was born into a ...

Explore the vast differences in how ordinary people displayed great courage or willful complicity in the face of devastating violence during the rise of ...

The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities. These tools provide a variety of ways to learn and teach about this important ...

As a token gesture to mollify the West, German authorities allowed the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany in Berlin. She had been studying at Mills College in California. No other ...