The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“Anschluss” refers to Hitler’s March 1938 annexation of his native Austria and its incorporation into the Third Reich.

Antisemitism, or hatred of Jewish people, constituted a core belief of National Socialism, the ideology of Hitler’s Nazi Party.

The most notorious of the Nazi death camps in Poland, Auschwitz has become synonymous with the Holocaust. The camp opened on June 14, 1940, and operated for the remainder of World War II. More than one million Jews were murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.