On this day in 1936, Nazi Germany's Reichstag (one-party parliament) passed a law giving the Gestapo absolute authority to ...

Primarily aimed at Jews naturalized since 1918 from the formerly Eastern German territories. The "Night of the Long Knives" occurs as Hitler, Hermann Göring, and Heinrich Himmler conduct a purge ...

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention.

In 1933, the Dachau camp was commissioned by Heinrich Himmler as the first concentration camp in Germany. In the beginning, mainly political prisoners were imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp.

The Gestapo was the Nazis’ secret police force. In 1934, Himmler replaced Hermann Göring as its leader. Its job was to monitor the German population for signs of opposition or resistance to ...