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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

In just a few years, the Nazis transformed much of German society to align with their theories about race and national unity. What did this mean for people who did not fit the Nazis’ vision of a “national community”? How did they react to their newfound “outsider” status? The sources in this section highlight the Nazis’ efforts to define membership in the “New Germany” and the responses of those excluded.

tolkachev auschwitz

Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Eldorado II

Everyday Encounters with Fascism
In this image, as part of a ritual of public humiliation, Jewish men and women were forced to scrub the streets to remove political slogans that were critical of Germany’s annexation of Austria.

Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Family Life

Family Life During the Holocaust
Policing

German Police and the Nazi Regime
Higher Education in Nazi Germany

Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Red Cross Nurses - Cover

Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
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Public Health under the Third Reich

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