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Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany
The Socialists and Communist passed the “Enabling Act” giving Hitler the power to rule by emergency decree -
Jews Race Laws
The Nuremberg Laws restricted future German citizenship to those of “German or kindred blood” and excluded those deemed to be “racially” Jewish or Roma (Gypsy) and the law prohibited marriage and sexual relation-ships between Jews and non-Jews -
Search for refuge
Hitler would send many Jews to concentration camps and would kill them. So man Jews in Vienna would go to the police station to obtain exit visas to avoid going to the concentration camps, and the incorporation of Austria by Nazi Germany unleashing of a wave of humiliation, terror, and confiscation, cause many Austrian Jews attempted to leave the country -
Night of Broken Glass
On Nov. 7, 1938, a young Jew shot and wounded a German Diplomat for mistreating his parents and Hitler started the Night of Broken Glass as a retaliation to the incident. The morning after the Night of Broken Glass, residents of Rostock, Germany view a burning synagogue. -
The Night of Broken Glass
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Night of Broken Glass
The Nazi regime arrange anti-Jewish violence across Germany and within 48 hours, the synagogues was vandalized and burned, 7,500 Jewish businesses was destroyed or damaged, 96 Jews were killed, and nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps -
The War Begin
Sections of Warsaw was in ruins following the invasion
and conquest of Poland by the German military and propelled Europe in WW2, and for most of the next two years German forces occupied or controlled much of continental Europe -
Resistance
A Jewish activists in Warsaw, around the historian Emanuel Ringelblum, established a secret archive to document Jewish life and death in the ghetto and the extreme conditions of German occupation. -
Mobile Killing Squads
About a quarter of all Jews who perished in the Holocaust were shot by SS mobile killing squads and police battalions following the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the units carried out the mass murder of Jews, Roma, and Communist government officials were of the German Army, the German Labor Service, and the Hitler Youth -
The War Begin
By the end of 1942, the Allies were on the offensive and ultimately drove back the German force -
Deportations Trains
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Concentration Camps Universe
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Resistance
The Jewish buried these documents in metal containers, such as this milk can, to preserve a record of Nazi crimes for future generations -
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Deportations
The trains carried Jews from German-controlled Europe and rolled into one of the six killing centers located along rail lines in occupied Poland. And commonly between 80 and 100 people were crammed into railcars of this type, while the Deportation trains usually carried 1,000 to 2,000 people, many died during the extreme conditions of the journey, while most survivors were murdered upon arrival at the killing centers -
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Concentration camp universe
Jews from Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia are taken off the trains and assembled at the largest of the killing centers, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the other overwhelming majority of Jews who entered the Nazi killing centers were murdered in gas chambers and usually within hours of arrival their bodies were cremated -
Resistance
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The courage to rescue
For several weeks, Danish rescuers ferried 7,220 Jews to safety across the narrow strait to neutral Sweden, and as a result of this national effort, more than 90 per-cent of the Jews in Denmark escaped deportation to Nazi concentration camps -
Death Marches
The prisoners being marched from one concentration camp to another, and in response to the deteriorating
military situation in late 1944, German authorities ordered the
evacuation of concentration camp prisoners away from advancing
Allied troops to the interior of Germany -
Death Marches
The marches evacuated by train, ship, or on foot, and prisoners suffered from malnutrition, exhaustion, harsh weather, and mistreatment, SS guards followed strict orders to shoot prisoners who could no longer walk or travel -
Concentration camp universe
The German authorities confiscated all the personal belongings of the Jews, including their clothing, and collected them for use or sale, and Soviet troops discovered tens of thousands of shoes when they liberated the Majdanek concentration camp -
The War Begin
The war in Europe ended with a unconditional surrender of Germany -
Postwar trials
Leaders of Nazi officials listen to proceedings at the
International Military Tribunal, and was best known as postwar trials, in Nuremberg, Germany, before judges representing the Allied powers -
Postwar trails
22 major war criminals were tried on charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to
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Liberation
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other high-ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners killed by German camp authorities during the evacuation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and he visited the camp to witness the evidence of atrocities, and publicly expressed his shock and revulsion, and he urged others to see the camps firsthand and released “the stories of Nazi brutality” to be forgotten or dismissed as merely “propaganda"
