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Picturing the Century for Kids on Nazi History
In 1933 Adolf Hitler became head of Germany and led the Nazi party which claimed Aryan supremacy. Nazi laws eroded freedoms and targeted Jews and disabled people, with the Holocaust resulting in millions of deaths. The image shows a starving camp inmate after liberation by American troops, from the National Archives exhibit series.
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