During the Holocaust and World War II, fear and intimidation were common experiences that shaped people’s reactions to events in different ways. The Nazi Party weaponized fear and intimidation as tools to exploit people's insecurities and rationalize war, persecution, and genocide.
fear & intimidation
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the Holocaust"Can America Afford to Condemn Hitler for His Racial Policies?"
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleCopy of a Form Promising to Renounce Jehovah's Witnesses
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleDeath Certificate for Fritz Dressel
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDeposition of Pesakh Burshteyn
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Abraham Frieder
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Aharon Pick
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Soviet POWs in German Captivity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleDrawings by Alexei Mikhailovich Pankin
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Austrian Police during the German Annexation of Austria
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleFilm of Germans Burning Books
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Jewish Boycott in Austria
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleFilm of Nazi Memorials in Munich
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Police Responding to Demonstrations in Berlin
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Propaganda and the American Public
Americans and the HolocaustGerman Leaflet Alleging Allied Atrocities
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the HolocaustGerman Leaflet: "Jewry and Penal Punishment"
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Exclusion of Jews in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleLetter by Josef Broniatowski