African-American athletes won 14 medals, nearly one-fourth of the 56 medals awarded the U.S. team in all events. American journalists established a scoring system that gave 10 points to the ...

Andrii Rukkas is an associate professor of history at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where he also received a PhD in history. His academic research focuses on the military history of ...

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Bella and Murray Ressler Digital Humanities Fellow, Ephraim Light will conduct research on German diaries from 1933 – 1938 to create a visual ...

Nadège Veldwachter is an associate professor of Francophone studies at Purdue University and a founding member of the Center for Genocide and Human Rights Research in Africa and the Diaspora at ...

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 ...

Search for “early warning signs fascism” in: All Collections Library Photo Archive Film Archive Name List Catalog ...

Emanuel-Marius Grec is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Heidelberg. Mr Grec holds two master’s degrees: one in Jewish studies from the Hochschule für Judische Studien in Heidelberg, and ...

Anca Filipovici is a researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She holds a PhD in history from Babeș-Bolyai University. Dr. Filipovici’s primary ...

“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 presence of the German military at the Winter Games dampened visitors' mood at the festival. Here, Hitler inspects troops in Garmisch during the Games. February 1936.

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, ...

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