But if the Trial did not expose the special Nazi mania so deadly to Jews as well as to anyone upon whom it happened to light, neither did it warn very effectively against the ordinary anti-Semitism of which the Nazis made such effective use in Germany and wherever else they could find it.

-- Greece and West Germany have ratified an agreement under which Germany will pay $28,700,000 to Greek victims of Nazi persecution, it was announced today.

But by the 1940s, many of Boas ' anthropologist contemporaries were active in the allied war effort against the " Axis " ( Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan ).

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

* 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 ( the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) and Operation Marita ( the invasion of Greece ).

* 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

* 1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.

* 1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.

Auschwitz concentration camp ( ) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

The book and its sequel, The Road Back, were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany.

Assault guns were primarily used during World War II by the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

It became the single most-produced armored fighting vehicle of Nazi Germany throughout the war, and was employed in infantry support and offensive armored operations as well as in the defensive anti-tank role.

" The anthroposophical institutions in Germany were banned during Nazi rule and several anthroposophists sent to concentration camps.

* 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

* 1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

Berlin's previous history as united Germany's capital was strongly connected with Imperial Germany, and more ominously with Nazi Germany.

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

* Brazil in World War II ( 1942 – 1945 ): Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany in August 1942 and in 1944 sent 25, 334 soldiers to fight in Italy.

Curiously, however, some Bauhaus influences lived on in Nazi Germany.

In response to suspected biological warfare development in Nazi Germany, the U. S., U. K., and Canada initiated a biological warfare development program in 1941 that resulted in the weaponization of anthrax, brucellosis, and botulism toxin.

Perhaps under the guidance of this Nazi principle one could, as Eichmann declared, feel personally friendly toward the Jews and still be their murderer.

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

During the war, Trumbo received letters from individuals " denouncing Jews " and using Johnny to support their arguments for " an immediate negotiated peace " with Nazi Germany ; Trumbo reported these correspondents to the FBI.

The Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar as " a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest ' national opposition ' —- fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists and ' cultural Bolsheviks ', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Adolf Hitler and the victory of the ' national revolution ' of 1933.

As World War II unfolded, Nazi Germany deported and killed millions of Jews and many millions of others were likewise enslaved or murdered, including Ukrainians, Russians and other Slavs.

The " interventions " advocated and practiced by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and classification of individuals and their families, including the poor, mentally ill, blind, deaf, developmentally disabled, promiscuous women, homosexuals and entire racial groups — such as the Roma and Jews — as " degenerate " or " unfit "; the segregation or institutionalisation of such individuals and groups, their sterilization, euthanasia, and in the extreme case of Nazi Germany, their mass extermination.

The Final Solution () was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust.

The Nazis used the euphemism Endlösung der Judenfrage ( Final Solution of the Jewish Question ) to describe their systematic killing of Europe's Jews, which Nazi leaders likely decided during the first half of 1941.

During World War II, the Axis Powers in Europe, led by Nazi Germany participated in the extermination of millions of Jews and others in the genocide known as the Holocaust.

* 1942: Nazi Germany commences Final Solution an attempted genocide of the Jews.

Following the army into the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen rounded up and killed Jews and others deemed undesirable by the Nazi state.

By the end of the war, at least 5. 5 million Jews had been killed by the Nazi regime ; most estimates range closer to six million.

In notes to accompany his biographical novel A Man of Parts David Lodge describes how Wells came to regret his attitudes to the Jews as he became more aware of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

Nazi pogroms started out as locally-sanctioned anti-Jewish activity in the early years of Nazi occupations and eventually reaching its apex in the Final Solution for the Jews.

Most of North Africa came under Nazi control and many Jews were used as slaves.

The result of Goebbels ’ incitement was Kristallnacht, the " Night of Broken Glass ," during which the S. A. and Nazi Party went on a rampage of anti-Jewish violence and destruction, killing at least 90 and maybe as many as 200 people, destroying over a thousand synagogues and hundreds of Jewish businesses and homes, and dragging some 30, 000 Jews off to concentration camps, where at least another thousand died before the remainder were released after several months of brutal treatment.

Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol.

* 1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, ( Romania ), resulting in the murder of at least 13, 266 Jews.

* 1941 – A Nazi officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.

He refused even to consider the idea ( which some of the other Nazi leaders were open to, though only on pragmatic grounds as a way of encouraging Jewish emigration ) that German Jews be allowed to take their personal possessions with them when they left Germany.

Ribbentrop was found to have had culpability in the Holocaust on the grounds that he persuaded the leaders of satellite countries of the Third Reich to deport Jews to the Nazi extermination camps.

After Operation Margarethe's success, Ribbentrop instructed the new Reich Plenipotentiary for Hungary, Edmund Veesenmayer, to begin deporting Hungarian Jews to Nazi death camps.

For a legal backup, the German German Restitution Laws ( Bundesentschädigungsgesetz ) were passed in 1956, allowing individuals and other ethnic groups than Jews to lay claims for compensation from the German state, if they were victims of Nazi prosecution.