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"The Beginning"
Hitler ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. -
"Nuremberg Laws"
These laws reprived Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property and required them to wear a bright, yellow "Star of David" -
Reichspogromnacht
Named "Reichskristallnacht" (Crystal night of the Empire) by the Nazis, 100 Jews were killed and 30,000 arrested during this night, when Nazi storm troopers attacked and destroyed Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. Afterwards, the Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction. -
The Plight of the St. Louis
A German ocean liner named "St. Louis" was forced by the Coast Guard to return to Europe although 740 of the liner's 943 passengers had U.S. immigration papers when it passed Miami. More than half of the passengers were later killed in the Holocaust. -
Hitler's "Final Solution"
After there was only one quarter of the Jewish population in Germany remaining by 1939, hitler made plans to kill the European Jews in the countries he would occupy as well. They were first required to live in seperated districts of a city, than they were little by little deported to concentration camp where they would work until they were executed, starved to death, or dead after an illness. -
"The Final Stage"
During the Wannsee Conference in 1942, the Nazis added a new method of murder to the usual kind of killing by slaughter and starvation. They build death camps like the death camp in Chelmno, which was the first one constructed in 1941, that included gas chambers where the prisoners who were unable to work anymore, were gased. In Auschwitz, the biggest one of the death camps, SS doctors examined arriving prisoners to divide them into a group of workers and another group that would be gased.
