Early Days Of A Monster

Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler review SS troops during Reich Party Day ceremonies.




German men and youth pose beneath an anti-Jewish banner that reads, "Help liberate Germany from Jewish capital. Don't buy at Jewish stores."
Photo credit: Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives



One way the Nazis cleansed the country of "un-German" thoughts was through censorship. A "brown shirt" (member of the SA) throws some more fuel--"un-German" books-- into a roaring fire on the Opernplatz in Berlin. May 10, 1933.
Photo credit: USHMM Photo Archives

Ghetto walls
Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydów Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 75.
Deportation in Warsaw
Photo credit: Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.