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The Nazi's, led by Hitler, had the idea that the Aryans (German people) were the master race. People different from this so called "master race', like homosexuals, gypsies, disabled and especially the Jews, were considered inferior and had to be disposed of. The Germans blamed the Jews for the losing of World War 1 and for the economic struggle that followed it. So in 1935 laws, called the Nuremberg Laws, were put into place by the Nazi, to eliminate the Jewish participation in Germany. The Jews lost the ability to own private property, have jobs or even become a German citizen because of these laws. The turning point of the Jews became the Kristallnacht. The Kristallnacht " was when when the Nazi leaders attacked the Jewish communities killing 100 Jews, damaging homes, businesses, and synagogues because a man named Herschel Grynsz killed an employee of the German embassy to avenge his father's deportation from Germany to Poland. The amount of amount of broken glass from windows destroyed by Nazi officials gave the Event its name Kristallnacht or " Night of Broken Glass." the Krstallnacht was a realization towards the Jews that the hostility towards them has been getting worse, In order to avoid the Germans some of them left the country for safety. Hitler, agreeing with idea supported the idea of the Jews leaving the country but for him it wasn't fast enough. So he had forced Jews into emigrating even if they refused. This wasn't successful because most of the countries that the Jews were emigrating to eventually didn't allow them to come in. So, Hitler than constructed ghettos in Poland. The Jews were to move into the ghettos, where Hitler had planned to seal off and have the Jews to die. But since it took the Jews too long to die in the ghettos, Hitler created the "Final Solution":the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a massive genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazi. The Holocaust killed 6 million Jews.
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1. Introduction to the Holocaust . The Holocaust killed six million Jews but of the false though that they were inferior to the Germans, or Aryans."German SS and police units, supported by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others. Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities."
2. THE HOLOCAUST Hitler had tried different tactics in trying to eliminate the Jews, leading up to the Holocaust. For example, he placed Jews in Ghettos hoping that they would die. "Beginng in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the Ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps, starting wiht those people viewd as the least useful: the sick, old, weak and the very young.
3. From Persecution to Genocide by Professor David Cesarani The Germans were angered by the Jews because they blamed them for the bad economy after the world they they also blamed them for losing. They're consequence for the false accusation was to exclude them as much as possible. "In April 1933 he permitted an organised boycott of Jewish businesses and his government enacted a string of laws that gradually excluded the Jews from government employment and public life. Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 German Jews were reduced to subject status and lost the rights of citizens. Germany became, in effect, an apartheid state."
4.The Nazi Racial State By Professor Peter Longerich The Germans wanted to have have their superior race not to be tarnished by the inferior races, like the Jews. The racial homogeneity they desired could only be created negatively, through discrimination, exclusion and eradication - and ultimately by killing those who did not fit into their perfect 'Aryan' society.
5.The Holocaust The Ghettos The Jews were moved into ghettos made to help exterminate them because they are the inferior race. “The German authorities attained several goals by establishing the ghettos: they gathered large numbers of Jews together under conditions of severe congestion and close supervision, deprived them of their property, exploited their labor, isolated them from the rest of the world, made them vulnerable and unprepared at crucial moments, and incited the local population against the Jews, whom they resented anyway."
6. The Holocaust The Outbreak of World War II and Anti-Jewish Policy The Conquest of Poland and the Beginnings of Jewish Persecution In the ghettos the Jews were tormented by the Germans, on top of the many suffering the ghettos already had to offer them."As they marched into the towns of Poland, Germans preyed on the Jews they encountered, subjecting them to humiliation and beatings, shearing the beards of the Orthodox and organizing public hangings to terrorize the population. The perpetrators were members of special SS units who accompanied the regular military units. They torched synagogues and Jewish homes, and abducted Jews on the street for forced labor to repair the damage from the battles. After receiving enormous monetary fines for having “caused” the World War and its attendant devastation,"
7. The Holocaust The Implementation of the Final Solution The Death Camps Hitler's "Final Solution to eradicate the Jews was to kill them off. The concentration camps filled with gas chambers killed many Jews. Most of them were women, children, the elderly, and the sick. "The Nazis’ purpose in building these camps was to carry out the systematic murder of European Jewry as part of the Final Solution. Permanent gas chambers were constructed in these camps."
8. The Holocaust The Beginning of the Final Solution The Wannsee Conference was held at wannsee to determine a solutiton to the Jewish problem."The minutes of the Wannsee Conference record that: “Due to the war, the emigration plan has been replaced with deportation of the Jews to the east, in accordance with the Führer’s will.”As a result of the meeting a network of extermination camps was established in which millions of Jews were murdered in 1942-1943."
9. The Holocaust The World of the Camps Labor and Concentration Camps The Jews were tortured in the camps the people who weren't killed were worked and starved to death.Employing the Jews in forced labor did not signify a change in the overall plan of extermination. Economic needs and the prolonging of the war established the need to utilize the Jews as a labor force. However, this was only a temporary setback in the extermination process – extermination by means of merciless forced labor. ‘Extermination by labor’ – as this “compromise” was called between those who called for immediate extermination and those who sought to exploit Jewish labor until their very end.
10. The Holocaust The World of the Camps Daily Life in the Camps Life in the Death camp came with strict instructions and harsh conditions."The camp routine was composed of a long list of orders and instructions, usually given to all but sometimes aimed at individual prisoners, the majority of which were familiar yet some came unexpected. All of one’s strength had to be enlisted to overcome the daily routine: an early wake up, arranging the bed’s straw, the lineup, marching to labor, forced labor, the waiting period for the meager daily meal, usually consisting of a watery vegetable soup and half a piece of bread which was insufficient for people working at hard labor, the return to the camp, and another lineup, before retiring to the barracks."
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The young survivors of the Holocaust tell their story
This video takes about the details of the Holocaust and what the people went through.
The Auschwitz Album- Visual Evidence of the Process Leading to the Mass Murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau
This video , showing picture by picture the lives of Jews in the Concentration camps and the devastating tragedies.
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This document is a top secret letter that was sent concerning the x-rays and surgical sterilization of a Jew
. This document records the Revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Jews refused to be caputred a faught back against the Germans."Again and again, fighting units of 20 to 30 or more Jewish youths, 18 to 25 years old, accompanied by corresponding numbers of females, renewed the resistance. These fighting units were under orders to continue armed resistance to the end and, if necessary, to escape capture by suicide."
This document are the instrustions sent to the Germans on what they had orders to do on Kristallnacht "As soon as the course of events during the night permits the release of the officials required, as many Jews in all districts, especially the rich, as can be accommodated in existing prisons are to be arrested."
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The locations of the Concentration and Extermination camps
The deportation rotutes of the Jews from the ghettos to the death camps
The movement of the Jews from the ghetto to the death camps in Europe
The approximate number of Jews killed in each country
The Deportation of the Jews from Germany into camps and ghettos