The Birth and Rise of National Socialism in Germany (1918-1938)

Revolutionary soldiers and Red Guards on the streets of Berlin in November 1918. Views of the streets of Berlin during the revolutionary events of November 1918. Karl Liebknecht, released from prison, speaks at a rally.

Panorama of one of the revolutionary rallies.

Liebknecht speaks at a rally.

Military patrols on the streets of Berlin.

A column of arrested workers on one of the streets (top).

The body of Karl Liebknecht in January 1919. A meeting of the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles in June 1919. Dismantling of one of Germany's military enterprises.

German soldiers and politicians leave the palace.

Soldiers of one of the volunteer corps on a city street in 1919. Photograph of the commander of the volunteer corps Franz von Epp.

Photograph of one of the authors of Lanz's racial theory.

Illustrations and diagrams of racial differences in Lanz's book.

A photograph of Hitler during the First World War with his comrades.

A photograph of a rally.

A photo portrait of Hitler from the early 1920s.

A caricature of Hitler.

A photograph of Hitler speaking at a rally.

Photographs of the SA storm troopers created in the early 1920s.

Photographs of the Munich Putsch organized by Hitler on November 8, 1923. Stormtroopers in the back of a truck are traveling to another rally along the streets of Berlin in 1927-1933. Cyclists ride next to the stormtroopers' trucks.

Stormtroopers in the back of a truck and participants in a Nazi rally standing on the sidewalk chant Nazi slogans.

A stormtrooper in uniform stands at the entrance to a store.

Stormtroopers stick anti-Semitic slogans on the signs of stores owned by Jews.

Stormtroopers with anti-Semitic banners block the entrance to a store and a pharmacy.

Goering's face G. Rosenberg A. speaking at a rally.

Streicher J. raising his hand in a Nazi salute during a speech at another rally.

Goebbels's face speaking at a rally.

Soldiers throw books into a fire.

Hitler's face speaking at a rally.

Goebbels shaking hands with rally participants.

Faces of applauding rally participants in 1934-1935. Rosenberg on the rally presidium.

Applauding rally participants.

Awarding of SS and Wehrmacht officers, rally participants applauding while sitting in the hall.

Applauding Goebbels.

Faces of awarded officers.

Applauding participants in Nazi events.

The face of a German paratrooper.

An SS officer speaking to soldiers.

Faces of SS soldiers and officers.

Burning of books at the stake.

Faces of participants in the night book burning, books being thrown into the fire.

Participants in the event perform the Nazi anthem.

Burning bonfires made of books.

The events of Kristallnacht in Germany on November 9-10, 1938. Stormtroopers ride along the streets of Berlin in the back of a truck, the truck is accompanied by cyclists.

Berliners filling the sidewalks, censorship being carried out to confiscate banned literature.

A six-pointed star being painted on the glass of a shop window.

Scores of foreign composers being confiscated from a music library, the covers of scores confiscated and slated for destruction.

A stormtrooper in uniform at the entrance to a butcher's shop.

The spines of books by authors banned in Nazi Germany on a shelf.

A view of one of the small towns in Germany.

A meeting of local SA leaders.

The chairman reads out a list of Jews and communists.

Names on the list.

Stormtroopers in the back of a truck ride along the streets of Berlin.

Covers of German books promoting racial theory and anti-Semitism, a mass in a Catholic church.

A pastor delivers a sermon.

A lesson on anti-Semitism in a junior class at a school.

A chalk inscription on a blackboard in German.

Children take textbooks out of their desks, open them, and caricatures of Jews in one of the textbooks.

Schoolchildren hang up anti-Semitic posters.

Caricatures and comics on posters.

A meeting of SA and NSDAP leaders in a German city.