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Elgin High School LibGuides: Holocaust- Post World War 2

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The Nazis

The 7 Most Notorious Nazis Who Escaped to South America
History.com
Nazi Hunters
The Guardian (Opinion Piece)
Nazi Hunters
New York Times
Nuremberg Trials
History.com
Nuremberg Trials
Library of Congress
Nuremberg Trials
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Nuremberg Trials
Virtual tour of the courtroom for the Nuremberg Trials

The Persecuted

The (im)possibilities of escaping. Jewish emigration 1933 – 1942
Anne Frank House
America Denied Refugees After the End of World War II—Just As We Are Today
Time Magazine
Displaced Persons
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
How China saved more than 20,000 Jews during WW2
BBC
Jewish Diaspora
National Geographic
New Beginnings: Jewish Refugees After The Holocaust
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Postwar Refugee Crisis and the Establishment of the State of Israel
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Searching for Refuge after the Second World War
The New Yorker
The Secret History of America’s Only WWII Refugee Camp
The New York Times
Ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees, fleeing Nazi Germany, is turned away in Cuba
History.com

The Land

What Happened to Germany After the War?
BBC

Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-52
US Department of State Archive
The End of World War 2 and the Division of Europe
Center for European Studies
The Era of Partition
Britannica
Fear of Retribution in Post Germany
National World War 2 Museum
From loss to liberation: Germany’s evolving postwar attitude
AP News
Rebuilding the world after the second world war
The Guardian
The US had a plan to completely destroy Germany after World War II
Business Insider