Memorial plaque outside Victor Klemperer’s former apartment building in Berlin. The text below his name reads: “In his ...

And in January 1933, in exchange for a political favor, Alfred Hugenberg provided the electoral capital that made possible Adolf Hitler’s appointment as chancellor. Before Hugenberg sealed his pact ...

The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed. The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely ...

Last week was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 when the true horror of the Nazi crimes against the Jewish people was exposed as the Soviet Red army swept ...

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

Frances Perkins’s agenda for the Labor Department put her at odds with the country’s tradition of restrictive immigration ...

Other prominent Jewish scientists felt compelled to join ... Einstein joined the faculty after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933, while Oppenheimer became the institute’s director in 1947.

Jews have been studying at Oxford for less than a fifth of the University’s history, yet Oxford became a haven for Jewish academics between 1933 and 1945. Once Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, he ...

It wasn’t a choice we took lightly. The Jüdische Allgemeine is the only Jewish weekly newspaper in Germany, and we strive to represent the entire Jewish community as well as its broad spectrum ...

With the appointment of Hitler the Jewish population of Germany are faced with their worst fears that now the Nazis will put into effect the threats they have been levelling ever since their ...