In anticipation of both the Winter Olympics and the Summer Games, Hitler directed that signs stating "Jews not wanted" and similar slogans should be removed from primary traffic arteries. In some ...

As a token gesture to mollify the West, German authorities allowed the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany in Berlin. She had been studying at Mills College in California. No other ...

Soon after Hitler took power, the Nazis began to exclude Jews from German sport and recreational facilities. Barred from German sports clubs, Jewish athletes flocked to separate Jewish associations, ...

Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee, fought to send a U.S. team to the 1936 Olympics, claiming: "The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians." He wrote ...

The Nazi rise to power brought an end to the Weimar Republic, a parliamentary democracy established in Germany after World War I.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis imprisoned and murdered Jews and other groups at thousands of camps throughout Europe. The ...

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture The persecution and murder of “enemies of the state” was an open secret during the Holocaust, but the Nazis ...

Just 80 years ago, Soviet troops approached Auschwitz. Nazi authorities had sent prisoners on death marches before they could be liberated from the camp and killing center complex, leaving mostly the ...

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Beginning in the early 1930s, through the end of the war in 1945, Nazis in Germany started indoctrinating millions of children with Nazi ideas through groups like the Hitler Youth. The Hitler Youth ...