The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy

The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy

An online exhibition from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge—how to seek justice for an almost unimaginable scale of criminal behavior. The International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg, Germany, attempted to broach this immense challenge on a legal basis

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Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms

Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of pogroms against Germany’s Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has produced an online exhibition featuring eye witness accounts, documents & images.

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Interview with Ian Kershaw @ HistoryNet

Interview with Ian Kershaw @ HistoryNet:

A short interview, by Gene Santoro for HistoryNet.com, with the eminent Professor Sir Ian Kershaw. Debunks some of the common myths surrounding Hitler & The Third Reich.


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Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg: short biography

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Online biography produced by the German Resistance Memorial Center. Also available are a vast selection of biographies of other members of the 'German resistance'. The physical museum and exhibition space in Berlin is a fantastic place to study and learn about this topic, although when I last visited, two-three years ago, much of the displays were in solely in German. Very much worth a visit, and the site of Stauffenberg's planning of the coup and execution by firing squad.

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Richard J. Evans: Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?

Richard J. Evans: Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?

Was it because Hitler was losing the war? Was it to put an end to the mass murder of the Jews. Or was it to save Germany's honour? Whatever his motives for killing Hitler, Stauffenberg was no role model for future generations, says British historian Richard Evans, in an article published in Sign & Sight online. The article was originally published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 January 2009.

Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.

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