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Forced labor in Nazi Germany during World War II
Discussion of the Nazi use of forced labourers from occupied territories to supply...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The horror of Auschwitz: A journey through history
Overview of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, located in a part...
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How much did Germans know about the Holocaust?
Learn about reactions of residents of Weimar, Germany, upon being forced to tour...
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History and role of the SS in Nazi Germany
Learn about the role of the SS, headed by Heinrich Himmler, in Adolf Hitler's reign...
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Witness the horrors of the Holocaust committed in Nazi concentration camps as Allied forces liberate survivors
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A group of Hungarian Jews arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in German-occupied...
Yad Vashem Photo Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
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Camp for Japanese Americans set up by the government in California, 1942. In the...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USF34-T01-072546-D)
Japanese American internment camps
Map showing the extent of the exclusion zone and the locations of the internment...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Jewish children being deported to Chelmno
Jewish children being deported from the Łódź ghetto, Poland, to the Chelmno death...
© Jacob Igra—United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Auschwitz; concentration camp
Arbeit Macht Frei, acrylic and mixed media on paper by Alice Cahana. The...
© Alice Lok Cahana
Major concentration camps in Nazi Germany
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Auschwitz: prisoner barracks
Prisoner barracks at Auschwitz, near Oświęcim, Poland.
© Radoslaw Maciejewski/Shutterstock.com
starvation
An inmate of a concentration camp at Gusen, Austria, suffering from starvation (May...
T4c Sam Gilbert—Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer/U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (111-SC-264918)
Japanese American internment: children
Japanese American children being relocated to internment camps, 1942.
Russell Lee—FSA/OWI/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USF33-013288-M1)