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Crowd in front of the Palestine & Orient Lloyd travel office, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Jan. 1939.

By the turn of the century, many Americans viewed Germany as an aggressive and domineering presence. The situation was attributable…

Destroyed store windows of a Jewish-owned shoe store in Magdeburg on the day after Reichskristallnacht, November 9, 1938.

Destroyed store windows of Herrmanns & Froitzheim, a shop with Jewish owners, in Magdeburg on the day after Reichskristallnacht, November…

Drawing of German emigrants aboard the ship “Samuel Hop” bound for America, circa 1850

German Newspapers, 1922

Jewish emigrés aboard the Rhakotis, which took refugees from the St. Louis whom Britain agreed to allow to emigrate

A photograph by the German government news agency of a "Jewish family"'s possessions boxed up for shipping to the United…

SA members holding posters declaring the Nazi boycott of stores with Jewish owners, April 1, 1933.

An SA soldier in Berlin standing in front of a sign urging the general public not to shop at stores…

The Simon family fled Germany and were photographed in New York in November 1938 en route to San Francisco