Holocaust

  • Period: to

    1914-1918

    the continue struggled to recover from the death or injury of tens of millions
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    1933

    Germany Jew about 500,000 or less than 1% of the national population.iN 1933 over 9 million jews lived in Europe (1.7)
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    1939-1941

    Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 over the next year
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    1941

    In 1941, Germany turned on its ally, The Soviet Union Einsatzgruppen
  • 1942-1945

    The Holocaust took place during a period of intense fighting on both the eastern and western fronts of the war. Allied troops uncovered the full extent of crimes committed during the Holocaust
  • After

    When Allied troops entered the concentration camps, they discovered piles of corpses, bones, and humans ashes