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Nazis
The Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents-- communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the governmant. -
Non- Aryans
Hilter ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. this was one of the first moves in a campaign for racial purity that eventually led to the Holocaust. -
Nuremberg Law
The Nuremberg Law stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. jews had to wear a bright yellow Star of David attached to their clothing. -
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Kristallnacht
Known as Kristallnacht. Nazi storm troopers attacked jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. An American who witnessed the violence wrote, "Jewish shop windows by the hundreds were systematically and wantonly smashed... The main streets of the city were a positive litter of shattered plate glass." Around 100 Jews were killed, and hundreds more were injured. -
St. Louis
official difference to the plight of Germany's Jews was in evidence in the case of the ship St. Louis. This German ocean liner passed Miami. Although 740 of the liner's 943 passengers had US immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone fro, disembarking in America. -
The Final Solution
Jews in communities not reached by the killing squads were dragged from their homes and herded onto trains or trucks for shipment to concentration camps, or labor camps. -
Death Camps
The first death camp was Chelmno. Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12,000 people could be killed a day. -
The Final Stage
A meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hilter's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of mass murder of Jews. To mass slaughter and starvation they would add 3rd method of killing, murder ny poison gas.
