[Narration and archive]
Jewish people had lived in Europe for 2,000 years but had often been persecuted because they practised a religion and customs that were different form their neighbours. They were wrongly blamed for all manner of misfortunes, kicked out of their countries and sometimes murdered in mass killings we now call pogroms. This discrimination against Jewish people is known as antisemitism.
[Narration and archive]
Jewish people had lived in Europe for 2,000 years but had often been persecuted because they practised a religion and customs that were different form their neighbours. They were wrongly blamed for all manner of misfortunes, kicked out of their countries and sometimes murdered in mass killings we now call pogroms. This discrimination against Jewish people is known as antisemitism.
A succinct definition of the Holocaust.
The Nazis used the media to instigate a powerful propaganda campaign portraying Jewish people as less than human.
Nazi boys were recruited in the Hitler Youth. Nazi girls into the League of German Girls.
