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.

Gleichschaltung ), meaning " coordination ", " making the same ", " bringing into line ", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society.

Between 14 November 1945 and 3 October 1946, the Allies established an International Military Tribunal ( IMT ) to try 22 of 24 major Nazi war criminals and six groups for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

The Soldau concentration camp was established in Winter 1939, here 13, 000 people have been murdered by the Nazi German state during the war.

In 1942, Stalin established the penal battalions composed of gulag inmates, Soviet PoWs, disgraced soldiers, and deserters, for hazardous front-line duty as tramplers clearing Nazi minefields, et cetera.

To maintain the political power and security of the Nazi party ( and later the nation ), the SS established and ran the SD ( Security service ) and took over the administration of Gestapo ( Secret state police ), Kripo ( criminal investigative police ), and the Orpo ( regular uniformed police ).

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

The Independent State of Croatia was established as a Nazi satellite state, ruled by the fascist militia known as the Ustaše that came into existence in 1929, but was relatively limited in its activities until 1941.

The facility that later became Oak Ridge National Laboratory was established as part of the Clinton Engineer Works for the Manhattan Project in 1943 during World War II, when American scientists feared that Nazi Germany was rapidly developing an atomic bomb.

It is, however, what Michel-Rolph Trouillot terms “ an age when collective apologies are becoming increasingly common ” as well as a time when the established Holocaust discourse has settled and legitimized claims of the Jewish, Roma and mentally ill victims of Nazi persecution so it would seem an appropriate time to at least bring attention to the debate of the Gay Holocaust, even if the issue is not to be settled.

The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a " sister organization " with the Gestapo, which the SS had infiltrated heavily after 1934.

Buchenwald concentration camp ( German: Konzentrationslager ( KZ ) Buchenwald, ( eng: Beechwood forest )) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg ( Etter Mountain ) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.

Goda wrote that Raeder by his own testimony disproved his own claims to have been an apolitical professional who was against the Nazi regime, and instead established that he was an anti-Semite who willingly served the Nazi regime because of his hatred for Jews.

" Critical Reconstruction " policies sought to disassociate the city's identity from its Nazi and socialist legacy, though some remnants were preserved, with walkways and bicycle paths established along the border strip to preserve the memory of the Wall.

On December 15, 1939, the new Bank Emisyjny was established by the General Government, itself set up by Nazi Germany.

In early November 1943, Nazi German forces took over the town and established their rule until May 1945, when the town was finally liberated by the Yugoslav People's Army.

It is the overall term for the enforcement bodies established by the Nazi occupiers to manage Jewish communities in German-occupied areas, although the Nazis established the name Ältestenrat in the ghettos of Łódź and Theresienstadt and even in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era.

It was a collaborationist government established by Nazi Germany ( see Reichskommissariat Ostland ).

In their analysis, it differed from the rest of the Eastern Bloc because it was established by the partisans of World War II who had fought against Nazi occupation, as opposed to by Stalin's invading armies.

However, Blessed Pope John Paul II, when deciding to canonize him, overruled the commission he had established ( which agreed with the earlier assessment of heroic charity ), wishing to make the point that the systematic hatred of ( whole categories of ) humanity propagated by the Nazi regime was in itself inherently an act of hatred of religious ( Christian ) faith, meaning Father Kolbe's death equated to martyrdom.