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10 Mei 1933
Nazi student groups burned works by Jewish, socialist, liberal, and other writers in public ceremonies in Berlin and other cities. The spectacle linked cultural censorship to the regimeβs wider...
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9 November 1938
After a Nazi-organized pogrom began on the night of November 9β10, synagogues were burned, Jewish businesses and homes destroyed, and Jewish people assaulted and killed. Police and fire services...
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30 April 1945
Adolf Hitler died by suicide as the Red Army fought through Berlin. Nazi rule was collapsing, but killings, death marches, and camp evacuations continued in the warβs final days. The defeat of the...
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14 September 1930
The Nazis won about 18 percent of the vote and became the second-largest party in parliament. The result followed a campaign exploiting economic crisis and attacking democracy and Jews. It was a...