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Silencing Political Opponents
The Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents- communists, socailists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government. Once the Nazis had eliminated enemies, they turned against other groups in Germany. In addition to Jews: gypsies, freemasons, and Jehovah's Witnesses. The Nazis also targeted other Germans whom they found unfit to be part of the "master race". Such victims included homosexuals, the mentally deficient, the mentally ill, etc. -
Aryans
shortly after Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from governemt jobs. this oreder was one of the first moves in a campaign for racial purity that eventually led to the Holocaust. -
Jews
the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. To make it easier for the Nazis to identify them, Jews had to wear a bright yellow star of David attatched to their clothing. -
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Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass. Nazi Storm Troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. Around 100 Jews were killed and 100s more were injured. some 30,000 jews were arrested and hundreds of synagogues were burned. Afterward, Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction. -
St. Louis
This German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. although 740 of the liner's 943 passengers had US immigration papers, the Coast gurad followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. The ship was forced to return to Europe. -
Concentration Camps
Jews in communities not reached by the killing squads were dragged from thie homes and herded on trains or trucks for shipment to concentration camps, or labor camps. Targets: communists, socialists, liberals, jews, gypsies, freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the mentall deficient, the mentally ill, the physically disbaled, and the incurably ill. -
Death Camps
The Germnas built six death camps in Poland. The first, Chelmno, began opperarting in 1941-before the meeting at Wannsee. Each camp had several huge in which as many as 12,000 people could be killed a day. -
the final stage
the final solution reached its final stage in early 1942. At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews. To mass slaughter and starvation they would add a third method of killing- murder by poison gas.
