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This event is known as the Machtergreifung (seizure of power). [7] In the following months, the Nazis used a process termed Gleichschaltung (roughly 'bringing into line') to consolidate power. [8] By June 1933, virtually the only organisations not under the control of the Nazi party were the army and the churches. [9]
Although Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison and the Nazi Party is briefly proscribed, Hitler gains public notice for the first time. [11] 18 July 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf. 24 October 1929 The Wall Street crash of 1929 occurs, beginning the Great Depression and allowing Hitler to gain support. [7] 1931
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
The Jewish population still remains below pre-Holocaust levels. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel, the world Jewish population reached 15.2 million by the end of 2020 – approximately 1.4 million less than on the eve of the Holocaust in 1939, when the number was 16.6 million. [478]
The whole topic of Holocaust survivors and Holocaust education has evolved over the years—from eyewitnesses who knew what really happened to memorials and museums to today, Holocaust education ...
The prevalence of antisemitism in German society was widely known by the 1930s, [12] but citizens of the United States were unaware that the Holocaust was taking place for the first year. [13] Several individuals attempted to contact the government of the United States and other governments to inform them of the Holocaust after it began in 1941.
A man lays a white rose at a memorial inaugurated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender victims of the Holocaust on Jan. 10, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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