holocaust

Nazi dictatorship

Outlawed other political parties and disbanded trade unions after 1933.

Gestapo

Established by Hermann Goering and given unlimited powers, functioning as the Nazi secret police.

Dachau

The first concentration camp set up for 'corrective treatment' of opponents of the Nazi regime.

Big Lie

Concept created by Joseph Goebbels to propagate false narratives about Jews.

Aryanization campaign

Initiated by Goebbels to remove Jews from the arts and control cultural output.

Isolation of Jews

Jews were forced to wear the Star of David and moved into ghettos.

Evian Conference

July 1938 conference where delegates from 32 countries refused to help Jewish refugees.

Kristallnacht

A violent anti-Jewish pogrom on November 9-10, 1938.

Final Solution

Nazi policy for the mass murder of Jews initiated when Jews weren't dying fast enough.

Auschwitz

One of the infamous death camps where Jews were systematically exterminated.

Dr. Josef Mengele

Known as 'The Angel of Death,' he conducted inhumane experiments on Jewish prisoners.

Nuremberg Trials

Post-WWII trials of Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity; some faced execution, others evaded justice.

physicians law

unethical medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on prisoners, violating human rights and leading to a reevaluation of medical ethics.

reich flag law

establish swastika as symbols

Law for the defense of Germany, blood and honor

banned marriage between Jews and non-Jewish Germans. It also criminalized sexual relations between them.