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John Demjanjuk Trial Begins in Munich, Germany - 30 November, 2009
Demjanjuk hearing his death sentence on April 25, 1988 in Jerusalem, Israel. John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolayovych Demyanyuk, 1920, Ukraine) is a retired auto worker and former United States citizen, who gained notoriety after being accused of war c...
Nuremberg Trials Begin - 20 November, 1946.
Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring (at the left edge on the first row of benches), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler's death. The Nur...
Armenian Genocide: The Hamidian Massacres of 1894–1896
Contemporary political cartoon portraying Hamid as a butcher of the Armenians The Hamidian massacres, also referred to as the Armenian Massacres of 1894–1896, refers to the massacring of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, with estimates of the dead r...
Kristallnacht - November 9-10, 1938
Kristallnacht, example of physical damage Kristallnacht was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938. In German, Kristallnacht means crystal night or the night of broken glass, alluding to the enormous number of shop...
"Euthanasia" Program Begins in Nazi Germany - October 1939
Nazi euthanasia propaganda poster reads: "60,000 Reichsmarks is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the People's community during his lifetime. Comrade, that is your money too. Read 'New People', the monthly magazine of the Burea...
What is the Armenian Holocaust.
Armenian civilians are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Turkish soldiers. Kharpert, Armenia, Ottoman Empire in April 1915. Published by the American red cross.The Armenian Holocaust, also known as the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Ma...

