Political Prisoners
A member of the German Communist Party describes her experience in a Nazi concentration camp for political prisoners.
![This 1934 propaganda poster in support of the National Welfare program reads: “National health, national community, child protection, protection of mothers, care for travelers, are the tasks of the NS-Welfare Service. Join now!”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1934_NaziNationalWelfareProgram_FH229450.jpg?h=ba625722&itok=aU-svife)
Holocaust and Human Behavior
Get a print or PDF version of our core resource on the Holocaust, which examines the challenging history of the Holocaust while prompting reflection on our world today.
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I Promised I Would Tell
Survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz bears witness to the Holocaust through poetry and testimony in this powerful memoir.
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Chart Illustrating Nuremberg Laws
This chart was designed to help Germans determine their racial status as outlined by the 1935 Nuremberg Laws.
![Chart with depictions of men and women detailing the 1935 Nuremberg laws.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Chart%20Illustrating%20Nuremberg%20Laws.jpg?h=1925ac1e&itok=_8xNuY_q)
Boy Scouts Founder
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, inspects scouts in Britain in 1915.
![Men in uniforms surround a line of young Boy Scouts](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Boy%20Scouts%20Founder.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=Vs9dyWGw)
Rejecting Nazism
Learn about the Edelweiss Pirates and the Swing Kids, two German youth groups that questioned Nazism.
![A 1938 photo of a group of Edelweiss Pirates, an unofficial youth groups that emerged in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1938_EdelweissPirates_%20FH229438.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=caMiT2YX)
Schooling for the National Community
Learn how the Nazis transformed German schools to advance their nationalist and racial ideologies.
![This propaganda poster from 1933 reads, “Hitler’s fight and Luther’s teaching are the best defense for the German people.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_NaziPropagandaDepictingMartinLuther_FH229430.jpg?h=8e8ffec8&itok=U_tsi-fT)
Speaking in Whispers
Learn about the role of cell and block wardens, Germans who collected information about their neighbors in Nazi German society.
![An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935. The headline above the case says, ""The Jews Are Our Misfortune.""](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_NaziPropagandaNewspaper_FH229452.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=WOgfci3M)
Speaking in Whispers (en español)
Learn about the role of cell and block wardens, Germans who collected information about their neighbors in Nazi German society. This resource is in Spanish.
![An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935. The headline above the case says, ""The Jews Are Our Misfortune.""](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_NaziPropagandaNewspaper_FH229452.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=WOgfci3M)
Spying on Family and Friends
Discover the effects of the “Malicious Attacks” law, which criminalized dissent to the Nazi party, had on one German family and on German society as a whole.
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