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Aditional Victims of the Nazis
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Book burning
university students burn more than 25,000 "un-German" books at Berlin's Opera Square -
Röhm Affair
Hitler Tells the SS to kill the SA cheif of staff Ernsy Röhm and his top commanders. The SS also kills Hitlers predecessor as chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher -
Nuremberg Race Laws
Sign reads: (Juden sind hier unerwunscht) Jews are unwanted here. These laws institutionalized many of the racial theories underpinning Nazi ideology. And also provided the legal framework for the holocaust in Germany. It also stated that someone with three or four Jewish grandparents were considered Jewish even if they did not practice Judaism -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens
Many early inmates of this concentation camp were political prisoners. but in 1938 after 'the night of broken glass' German SS and police sent many Jews to this camp -
German Invasion of Poland
German invaded Poland along the border and made a quick advance to Warsaw. Refuges in poland both Jewish and Non-Jewish hoped that the Polish army would stop the German army. But the polish army was unable to hold their own and finally surendered before a month was over. -
Operation Barbarossa
The Einsatzgruppen (German mobile units of Security Police and SD officials) were tasked with identifying, concentrating and killing Jews, soviet officials and others who were a 'potientally hostile to German rule in th east. -
Soviet POW in minsk
The Soviet POW's recieved brutal treatment from the Germans. And were also killed on a massive scale. During WW2 millions of soviet army men became POW's to the Germans. The soviet POW's were the second largest group of victims to the Nazi racial policy. -
“Euthanasia” Killings Continue
Photo: A page of the Hadamar Institute's death register in which the causes of death were faked to conceal the euthanasia killings that took place there. Hitler orders coridnated killings. Germany health care professionals killed thousands of people. This included both adults AND children with both physical and mental disablilitys. -
Germans destroyed Lidice
Photo: Fifteen-year-old Maria Dolezalova is sworn in as a prosecution witness at the RuSHA Trial. German forces destroyed the Czech Village of Lidice. Hitler ordered the destruction of this village due to the assination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague -
Death penalty for aiding jews.
Photo: Handbill in German and Polish issued by the SS and Police leader in the Warsaw district announcing the death penalty for those who assist Jews who have left the ghetto without authorization.—US Holocaust Memorial Museum People hiding Jews or assisting Jews were threatened with death if caught assisting Jews.
