Just because it happened, doesn't mean it was inevitable

German citizens saluting Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 
11th Olympiad in Berlin (#14495)
Date: August 1936

Photo credit: National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives

Photographer: No photographer recorded


Photo description
German citizens saluting Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin.


Relationship to guideline

The Holocaust was not inevitable; it took place because individuals, groups, and nations made decisions to act or not to act.  By 1936, large groups of people publicly and enthusiastically supported the Nazi state.
 

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