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Photo of female SS guards after their arrest by British troops in Bergen-Belgen. Irma Grese is in the last row on the left.

Photo of Irma Grese, SS guard at the concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz and warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen.

To increase the birthrate, the Nazi regime ran a non-stop propaganda campaign that glorified starting a family and having children. One manifestation of the Nazi "cult of the mother" was the "Cross of Honor for the German Mother" (also known as the…

Photo of Gregor Strasser (1892 - 1934), Nazi Party activist

Photo of SA members burning the black-red-gold flag of the Weimar Republic in Berlin on January 30, 1933

Photo of Wewelsburg Castle, which was intended to be used as a central SS meeting and ideological site.

Photo of the SS "Totenkopfring"

Photo of Karl Maria Wiligut, Nazi occultist and SS member

Photo of Himmler looking at ancient Germanic rune markings at Palatinate quarry in 1935. The Nazi occultist Kurt Maria Wiligut (Weisthor) stands to the right, above Himmler.

Photo of Adolf Hitler