Holocaust

Orchestrated by anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust saw the systematic murder of more than six million Jews. Today the Holocaust is commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. The Auschwitz concentration camp is the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world: around 1.1 million people were killed there – 1 million of them Jews

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"Weimar's citizens cheered on Hitler": why the home of German democracy was easy prey for the Nazis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4“You can’t kill and maim with impunity”: the powerful legacy of Nuremberg. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Did the Nazis get a fair trial?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2The Nazis’ crimes laid bare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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I went digging for buried Nazi gold – and this is what I discovered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did Hitler have sexual relations with Eva Braun? What my research reveals about the Führer's love life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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AI: good or bad for history? Our experts weigh in. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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I've just been inside a Nazi monster's mansion – and what I found there was deeply haunting. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did Hitler have a secret Jewish grandfather? Our DNA research has solved the mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Defendants at the Nuremberg Trials listen to proceedings in 1946. In the front row sit Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner; behind them are Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, and Fritz Sauckel. Together they represent the senior leadership of the Nazi regime held to account for its crimes.

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“I hope I would have defended the Nazis at Nuremberg”

Hermann Göring in his office at the Reichstag, where he served as a leading figure of the Nazi regime. As Hitler’s deputy and head of the Luftwaffe, Göring wielded immense power during the Third Reich, later facing prosecution for war crimes at Nuremberg.

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Who was Hermann Göring? The truth about Hitler’s drug-fuelled enforcer who met his downfall at Nuremberg

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The Holocaust | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why Schindler’s List remains relevant decades on

Adolf Hitler and his lover, Eva Braun, relaxing in Berchtesgaden in 1942. The Nazi leader’s private life was more ‘normal’ than some accounts have suggested (Photo by akg-images)

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“We need to understand the Nazis as human beings”: Richard J Evans on the motivations of Hitler’s followers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jonah Hauer-King as Lali Sokolov and Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman in The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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Are we right to fictionalise the Holocaust? It’s a question The Tattooist of Auschwitz should make us ask ourselves

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The real tattooists of Auschwitz: who were the men who turned people into numbers?

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The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The real history behind The Zone of Interest: Did Rudolf Höss really live next door to Auschwitz?

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Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

: SS soldiers with Jewish people before their execution at Babyn Yar. “Each of these murders took place face to face. It was an intimate and barbaric process,” writes James Bulgin. (Photo by YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES)

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How the holocaust began. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photo showing a group of friends having a picnic, including Josef Mengele (third from the right).

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Tracking down the Nazi 'Angel of Death': one man's hunt for Josef Mengele

Hitler and French Marshal Henri-Phillipe Petain

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Vichy France: your guide to the WW2 regime

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How forgers helped rescue Holocaust victims. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Surviving Hitler and Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Forgotten histories of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

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The Holocaust: a 21st-century view. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Architecture & hidden Jewish history in Eastern Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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