Article about the Nazis' systematic use of propaganda as a way of controlling the ideas of the German people prior to, and throughout World War II. Propaganda was primarily created against Jews, Communists, and any groups which were not considered "ethnic German."
An overview of the various resistance and partisan groups who fought against or sabotaged the Nazis throughout Europe during World War II.
Article about the concentration camp at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Ohrdruf was the first camp to be liberated by the Allied forces, in April 1945.
An explanation of the term "pogrom" and examples of pogroms in both 19th and early 20th century Russia, and in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II.
Article about the Nazi movement to annihilate as much of the Polish population as possible during World War II. This article focuses particularly on the non-Jewish portion of the Polish populaton.
A chronology of the conspiracy theory deliberately created in a book, probably by Russian secret police in the late 19th century, and how that text has been used in the last 100+ years by various groups to justify antisemitic actions.
An explanation of the term "racism" and how it impacted the rise of Nazism and World War II.
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who worked to save Hungarian Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps late in World War II.
The story of how the plight of postwar Holocaust survivors brought about the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel.
An explanation of the plight of refugees, especially Jewish refugees trying to emigrate from Germany just prior to and during World War II.
Available in Spanish only: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Resistencia espiritual en los ghettos" or "Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
Article about the genocide of the Tutsi population in Rwanda and the prosecution of Jean-Paul Akayesu for genocide.
A description of the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor in Poland, and of the prisoner uprising there.
Available in Spanish only: from the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Historias personales" or "personal stories" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
An article about plight of people, especially Jewish people, who were displaced by World War II and had no homes to return to, and how the world-wide community did, and did not, aid them in the years immediately following the war.
Article about the first trial in the US zone in Germany for massed atrocities. In the Hadamar Trial, those responsible for the euthanization center at Hadamar were tried for the killing of foreign prisoners, because laws did not yet exist which would allow for trials for crimes against humanity.
An overview of the rise of the Third Reich in Germany prior to World War II.
Article about the coverage and response that news of the Holocaust received at various times throughout World War II.
A description of the Nazi development and use of the extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland during World War II.
A history of the German occupation of Vilna, and the Nazi extermination of the large Jewish population there.