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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April-May 1943), SS and SD officers force a group of Jews to leave their shelter. Second from the right, pointing a submachine gun at a Jewish boy holding his hands above his head, is SS-Rotenfuerer Josef...
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Construction of the Ark
A 1493 illustration from the Nuremberg chronicles showing the construction of Noah's Ark.
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Celtic Burial Mound Reconstruction, Hallstatt
A reconstruction of a Celtic burial mound from the Hallstatt culture of Austria and central Europe in the 1st millennium BCE. (German National Museum, Nuremberg)
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Hitler Youth Postcard
A 1936 German postcard showing the coat of arms and castle of Nuremberg and a member of the Hitler Youth, a Nazi youth organization founded in 1922.
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Diet of Augsburg
Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (1530), engraving in a bible from Nuremberg, 1736.
Protestant Museum of Upper Austria, Rutzenmoos.
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Rudolf Hess in Prison
A 1945 photograph of Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), once deputy leader of the German Nazi Party, in his prison cell during the Nuremberg Trials. (U.S. Army Signal Corps - Library of Congress)
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Anaximenes of Miletus
Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493 CE).
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Corpse of Joachim von Ribbentrop
The corpse of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) who was found guitly of war crimes and hanged 16 October 1946 after the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46).
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Zeno I and Anastasius I
Emperors Zeno I and Anastasius I, folio 141 recto of the Nuremberg Chronicle (c. 1493).
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Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives (aka Blood Purge or Röhm-Putsch) of 30 June 1934 was a purge of the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary group which continued through 1 and 2 July. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), wary of the growing power of the...
