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  2. Political Intimidation in Kassel’s Opera Square: Only a Stubborn Mule Ends up in a Concentration Camp (1933)

  3. SPD Members Arrested and Sent to Concentration Camps (May 16, 1933)

  4. German Communist Party (KDP) Functionaries Wanted by the German Criminal Police (1933)

  5. The Gestapo and the Security Police Search the Berlin Headquarters of the German Communist Party (February 23, 1933)

  6. Anti-fascist KPD Election Campaign Flyer (1933)

  7. SA Members Arrest Communists in Berlin on the Day after the Reichstag Elections (March 6, 1933)

  8. Prisoners during Roll Call at the Oranienburg “Protective Custody Camp” Near Berlin (April 1, 1933)

  9. Employment of Prisoners at the Oranienburg “Protective Custody Camp” near Berlin (April 1, 1933)

  10. Prisoners Doing Leveling Work at the Dachau Concentration Camp (May 24, 1933)

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  12. Reflections on Daily Life in a Police State (1939)

  13. Advertisement by the Dehomag Company for Hollerith Punch Cards, which were used in the 1933 Census (June 1933)

  14. An SS Member Signs the Oath of Loyalty to Hitler at a Mass Rally on the People’s Day of Mourning (February 25, 1934)

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  36. Diary Entries on the Nazi Terror in France (1941)

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  38. Female SS Guards after their Arrest in Bergen-Belsen (April 15, 1945)