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Celebration of Hitler's 44th birthday in Berlin, including flags flying and the SA planting a "Hitler Linden" tree. The narrator notes that nobody will go hungry on the Chancellor's birthday. A scene shows the collection of money for charity through sales of Edelweiss flowers. Close-up of hands holding "Hitler-Geburtstagspende." Shot of people using or exchanging the vouchers (for money?). Location ...

Human rights are not (if even considered) prominent within typical nationalist discourses. Nationalism has preoccupations with wars, empire, heroism, common struggles, or self-righteousness. The national past is typically praised within patriotic narratives because this illustrates the idealized characteristics of identity. For the worst twentieth century examples of nationalism (and related political ...

Leo Weinrieb (1917-2011) was born in what was then the Russian Empire, in present-day Poland (in a village between Sosnowiec and Katowice), in 1917. Following his birth, but before the formation of the Polish state in the wake of World War I, his parents decided it would be better to live in Germany, and immigrated there, where his father initially found work as a coal miner in western Germany. Later, ...

"During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called 'the arsenal of democracy.' Crucial in this effort were business leaders. Some of these captains of industry went to Washington ...

Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 28 pages. Author discusses origins in Greiz (Thuringia), escape in 1940 for Yugoslavia but ends up in Italy instead, until arrested, sent to Fossoli, and then Auschwitz.

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party functionaries, and intelligence agents who quietly navigated the transition to postwar life and successfully ...

Both before and during the war, Germany suffered from a critical manpower shortage. One way in which the Arbeitsverwaltung (the Employment Administration) attempted to solve this problem was the use of Jewish slave labor. Jews were employed mainly in public works, later in war industries, and were strictly segregated from Aryan workers. Many were housed in labor camps. At first, Jews working in war ...

Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is unttitled but depicts a view of the living room.