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Beginning of the Holocaust
Hitler ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. This order was one of the first moves in a campaign for racial puity that eventuall led to the Holocaust. -
The Condemned
Nazi's take power and concentrate on silencing their political opponents. Opponents such as communists, socialist, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against them. After eliminating these enemies, Nazi's turned against Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, and Jehovah's Witnesses. -
Jews
Nuremberg Laws strip Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. To make them easier to identify, Nazi's had them wear a bright yellow Star of David attached to their clothing. -
Kristallnacht
Night Of Broken Glass. Nazi storm troopers attacked Jews homes, businesses, and synogogues across Germany. Around 100 Jews were killed, and hundreds more injured. Some 30,000 Jews were arrested, and hundreds of synogogues were burned. Nazi's blamed Jews for destruction. -
St. Loius
The German ocean liner, St. Loius, passed Miami in 1939. Although 740 of the 943 passengers had U.S. immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. The ship was then returned to Europe, not granting anyone who was seeking refuge freedom. -
The Final Solution
Started in Poland when Hitler's elite "security squadrons" rounded up Jews - Men, women, children, babies, and children - and shot them on the spot. Jews were ordered into dismal crowded ghettos in which bodies piled up, and where Jews were forced to work in factories. In labor camps, or concentration camps, in which most would be seperated from their families, and died. -
Death Camps
As deadly as overwork, starvation, beating, and bullets were, they did not kill fast enough for the Nazi's. Germans built 6 death camps in Poland. Chlemno, the first one to be built, begian operating in 1941. Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12000 people could be killed each day. In Auschwitz, the largest of the death camps, prisoners were split into two groups and then the group with the people were unfit to work, was led to gas chambers in which cyanide gas would kil -
The Final Stage
At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb neat Berlin, Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews. To mass slaughter and starvation they wuold add a third method of killing - murder by poison gas.
