Essay describing how many Jewish people in Germany did not initially believe reports of Jewish extermination due to Nazi control of the press.

Online museum encyclopedia introduction of the Holocaust. Includes photographs, references for further reading, and links to related materials.

An extensive timeline showing the events between 1933 and 1945 that occurred during the progression of the Jewish Holocaust. It begins with several paragraphs describing the nature of the Holocaust.

The Dirksen Congressional Center created a website focused on Everett Dirksen's travels for the House Committee on Appropriations in 1945. Details the extent of this trip with a list of places traveled, people he met with, and pictures....

An explanation of the term "antisemitism" and its particular reference to the Holocaust.

1938 has been deemed "The Fateful Year" because Jewish persecution escalated. Jewish passports were revoked, Kristallnacht occurred, and Jewish property was forcibly taken. Read a summary and view primary sources such as photos,...

This site is a chronology of the events between January 30, 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor and, and the year 1961 when Eichmann was on trial in Jerusalem. There are many useful links that connect you with pictures and photos.

At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read an in-depth article about the Holocaust.

Anti-Semitism has roots that are entrenched in Europe. However, not until Hitler was anti-Semitism an official policy of a state. Read a synopsis of anti-Semitism through time and view primary resources such as photos, video lectures,...

Article about the Dachau concentration camp which housed almost 200,000 prisoners, both political and ethnic, in the period between 1933, when the Nazis took power in Germany, and mid-1945 when the Allies liberated the camps.

As the Soviet army approached Germany, the Nazis began to liquidate the Jewish ghettos and camps. Read a summary of this process, along with viewing photos, artifacts, documents, and art from this time period.

The History Place looks at the rise of the German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Excellent site that provides links to sites that contain detailed information concerning the fall of France that May in 1940. Click on sites under The French Defeat of 1940 - Reassessments.