Holocaust

By Logan Robbins

  • The Condemned

    The Condemned
    After taking power in 1933, the Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponets-communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government.

  • The Persecution Begins

    The Persecution Begins
    On April 7, 1933, shortly after Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. This order was one of the first moves in a campain for racial purity that eventually led to the Holocaust-the systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews.

  • Jews Targeted

    Jews Targeted
    In 1935, 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 attached to their clothing. Worse was yet to come

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    November 9-10, 1938, became known as Kristallnacht, or "night of broken glass." Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.

  • St. Louis

    St. Louis
    Official indifference to the plight of Germanys Jews was in evidence in the case of the ship St. Loui. This German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. Although 740 of the liner's 943 passangers had U.S. immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to pervent anyone from disembarking in America.

  • The Final Solution

    The Final Solution
    Once the Nazis had eliminated these enemies, they turned against other groups in Germany. In addition to Jews, these groups included the following: Gypsies, Freemasons,
    jehovah's Witnesses, jews. Nazis also concentrated on silencing their political opponents- communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government. Concentration camps were labor camps for the jews.

  • Death camps

    Death camps
    The first, Chemlo, began operating in 1941-before the meeting at Wannsee. Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12,000 people could killed a day. When prisoners arravied at Auschwitz, the largest of the death camps, they had parade by several SS doctors.

  • The Final Stage

    The Final Stage
    As deadly as overwork, starvation, beatings, and bullets were, they did not kill fast enough to satisfy the Nazis. The Germans built six death camps in Poland.