In this clip, Bertram Schaffner recounts a visit to Berlin in 1936 in which he attempts to approach another man in the park and learns about the danger such a meeting in public poses under Nazi rule.
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In this lecture, Professor Peter Hayes details how and why the Nazi regime managed to kill an unprecedented number of people with ferocious speed, yet without applying significant quantities of German personnel or resources.
Selma Engel describes how the insurrection at Sobibor was timed to coincide with the vacation of Gustav Franz Wagner, an infamously sadistic Nazi commander at the camp who reportedly had a strong intuition about inmate collusion.
Ernest Uiberall remembers hearing about the burning of the German parliament (Reichstag) building on February 27 1933. Uiberall also reflects on how the Austrian newspapers reported on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.
Jewish Holocaust Survivor
Interview language: Portuguese
In 1944, Augusta Glaz was interrogated for 5 days by the Gestapo in Brussels, Belgium, where she was brutally treated. She was then taken to the Mechelen Concentration Camp, also known as Malines, where she was placed in an underground bunker built especially for female political prisoners. There, she remained for 30 days.
Herbert Friedman discusses his mother’s decision to take in three Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany. Friedman attributes his family’s decision because of their faith and his mother’s prominent role within their synagogue New Haven, Connecticut.
Albrecht Becker recounts the atmosphere for gays in Nazi Germany while Röhm was still in charge of the SA and how the relative freedom he enjoyed during that time changed dramatically after Röhm's assassination in June 1934.
Rose Toren’s father told her to leave the family to go hide with a friend from school in Nazi occupied Poland. Rose recalls the night she fled to her friend’s house and evaded beatings by the Gestapo.
Fred remembers a conversation he had with a German soldier about the Nazi military ideology, in addition to the ideology about the German "reich." The Nazis intended to create this "reich" using any method because they believed they were the "supermen."
David Bayer remembers when Nazi Germany invaded his home country, Poland on September 1, 1939. David and his family hid in the woods during the invasion and returned to town a few days later to find German soldiers in their home.