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In this lesson, you learn about the Weimar Republic’s fragile democracy between 1918-1933 and examine historical events that allowed for the complete breakdown of democracy in the Third Reich between 1933 and 1939. You also investigate primary source materials to better understand how legislation, terror, and propaganda isolated Jews from German society.

For more information about Nazi Germany during the 1930s, click here.

In this lesson, you meet Frank Shurman, formerly (Schuermann). Learn about the fate of Frank's uncle, aunt, and cousins during the Holocaust.

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In this lesson, you also meet Esther Clifford. Learn about the fate of some members of Esther's family during the Holocaust by clicking on the pages of testimony identified with .

Esther CliffordFamily tree

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Anschluss Jehovah's Witnesses
Anti-Jewish Legislation Mein Kampf
Films, Nazi Antisemitic Nazi Party
Four-Year Plan Olympic Games of 1936
Germany Propaganda, Nazi
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Goering, Hermann Shanghai
Gypsies Spain
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Hitlerjugend United States of America
Homosexuality in the Third Reich Yishuv
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Germany, A Nazi Propaganda Poster
A Closing Rally in Vienna Before the Referendum on the Annexation of Austria to the Reich
“All of Germany is Listening to the Fuehrer”, a Prewar Nazi Poster Encouraging the Populace to Listen to Propaganda Broadcasts''
Berlin, Germany, 1935, Military Units on Parade in a Square, on the Day of the Declaration of Rearmament
Berlin,Germany, A Postcard of the Brandenburg Bridge from the Beginning of the Nazi Regime
Germany - A Ceremony for the Annual Nazi Party Rally, 1935
Mein Kampf
Joseph Goebbels
Germany, 1938, Heinrich Himmler with Benito Mussolini
A Racial Chart Taken from a Nazi Propaganda Booklet: What Kind of Marriage is Restricted by the Law? What Kind of Marriage is Allowed?
A Racial Chart Taken from a Nazi Propaganda Booklet: "Who Has German Blood? Who Belongs to the Jewish Race? Who is of Mixed Race?" 
A Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet Titled: "The Feuhrer Makes History"
Berlin, Germany, February 27,1933, The Reichstag in Flames
Germany - A Nazi Poster for the Elections
Vienna, Austria, Hitler's Victorious Entrance in 1938
Munich, Bavaria, Germany, 1938, Ohel Ya'akov Synagogue, after a Pogrom
Photographs of Measuring the Nose and Eyes for Racial Purposes
A Synagogue On Fire, Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938, Siegen, Germany

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"Transformations in Our Struggle": Article by Reinhard Heydrich in Das Schwarze Korps
Report by Adolf Eichmann on His Activity in Vienna
Regulation for the Elimination of the Jews From the Economic Life of Germany, November 12, 1938
 

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