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Enabling Act (23 March 1933)
Photo of the Enabling Act, passed 23 March 1933, which dispensed with parliamentary government and effectively gave Hitler dictatorial power.
Himmler Views Ancient Runes at Palatinate Quarry, 1935
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.
Karl Maria Wiligut (1866 - 1946)
Photo of Karl Maria Wiligut, Nazi occultist and SS member
SS Honor Ring (Totenkopfring)
Photo of the SS "Totenkopfring"
Nuremberg Laws (15 September 1935)
Title page of the German government gazette Reichsgesetzblatt issue proclaiming the Nuremberg laws, published on 16 September 1935 (RGB I No. 100)
Wewelsburg Castle
Photo of Wewelsburg Castle, which was intended to be used as a central SS meeting and ideological site.
Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's first chancellor (1949-1963), on the cover of Time Magazine in 1953.
SA troopers burning a Weimar flag
Photo of SA members burning the black-red-gold flag of the Weimar Republic in Berlin on January 30, 1933
Gregor Strasser (1892 - 1934)
Photo of Gregor Strasser (1892 - 1934), Nazi Party activist
"The Cross of Honor for the German Mother"
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…