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First concentration camp opened
SourceThe Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp for political prisoners established by Nazis. The camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned factory in the state of Bavaria. Dachau served as model for other Nazi concentration camps that followed. Its basic organization, camp was developed and applied to later camps. Camps had a separate secure camp near the command center, which consisted of living quarters, administration, and army camps. -
Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers
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In August of 1934, about 95 percent of registered voters in Germany voted and gave Hitler 38 million votes of approval, which was 90% of the vote. This meant that Adolf Hitler could claim he was Führer of the German nation by direct will of the people. Hitler then held absolute power in Germany, more than any previous traditional head of state. -
Nuremberg Laws
SourceAt a conference two measures were announced at the annual Party Rally in Nuremberg. The first law, The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, prohibited marriages and extramarital intercourse between “Jews ” and “Germans ” and also the employment of “German ” females under forty-five in Jewish households. The second law, The Reich Citizenship Law, stripped Jews of their German citizenship. -
Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech
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In a section of Hitler's January 30, 1939, Reichstag speech, Hitler spoke with unusual care. The destruction of the Jews appeared to be a subject important to him, and without a doubt ha had wanted his listeners in the Kroll Opera House to catch every word he said.He was very good at delivering his speeches and they caught his audience’s attention. This speech in particular caught the entire world’s attention. -
Pogroms
Pogroms Pogroms- 1939-1942
A pogrom is a violent mob attack on the members of a minority. In Nazi Germany, these pogroms were aimed at the Jews. The most infamous pogrom was the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938. The pogrom rendered 31 Jews dead. 30,000 Jews were arrested and deported to concentration or extermination camps. 1000 synagogues were burnt down and nearly 7000 Jewish businesses were destroyed. It was indeed a frightful experience. -
Germany Conquers Poland
German Invades Poland1.5 million German soldiers invaded Poland over a span of three weeks in 1939 by hostile force. Roughly 6 million Polish citizens died, about 21% of the population, between 1939 and 1945 as a result of the occupations. Although the Soviets were a part of the invasion, they were the ones to save many Polish citizens in the end. -
The opening of Auschwitz concentration camp
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In 1939 Hitler annexed the old Polish town of Oswiecim to his Third Reich as Auschwitz, and a year later the Nazis started the conversion of the town’s abandoned barracks into a concentration camp called Konzentrationslager Auschwitz in German. The first inmates were a group of Polish political prisoners and they arrived on June 14, 1940. -
Ghettos
Ghettos Life in Ghetto Ghettos- 1940-1945
The Jews and Romanians were confined in these ghettos. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto and had 380,000 people in it. The Lodz ghetto was second largest ghetto having 160,000 people in it. Many of diseases were spread here because of horrible working conditions in menial jobs. -
Mass-gassing
Mass Gassing Mass Gass Video
The mass-gassing that occurred first started in the concentration camp called Auschwitz. The Nazi Germans began massive killing of the Jewish people through gassing,People were killed by the thousands every day.They were forced into what they thought were showers and killed with poisonous gas.This was a main and most infamous ways in which Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust. -
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A total of 143,000-145,000 Jews are deported from the Lódz ghetto to Chelmno where they are killed.
[Source.](goo.gl/1oR2G)The Chelmno killings occurred during the “Final Solution”. For eleven days starting January 16, more than ten thousand Jews were deported from the Lodz ghetto to Chelmno, and gassed in the gas vans at the Palace. On February 22 1942 – September 12 1942, 60,669 Jews were deported to Chelmno and killed. On June 23 - July 14 1944, 7,196 more Jews were killed at Chelmno. Then on August 9-29 1944, an entire 65,000 - 67,000 Jews were killed during the “Final Solution”. -
Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek.
Majdanek
The Majdanek concentration camp in the Polish city of Lubin was used from October 1, 1941 to July 23, 1944 when it was liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union. Although the first prisoners at Majdanek were Russian Prisoners of War, who were transferred from a barbed wire enclosure at Chelm, the camp soon became a detention center for Jews. In July 1944 Majdanek was liquidated. -
The prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebel and blow up one crematorium.
Source.The Jews who were sent to work at the crematoriums at the camps would usually be given better food and shelter than the other Jews at the camp. However, they would also be killed because they eventually knew too much. Knowing this, they decided to rebel before they killed them. They got together, the Jews who knew the details and the people who made the explosives. Together, they blew up one of the four giant crematoriums at the camp. -
The Soviet army liberates Auschwitz
[Video](goo.gl/nC1Zp)Source.Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz and took more than 60,000 Jews with them. However, conditions were difficult and more than 15,000 died during the death marches. The Soviet soldiers were harsh and wanting to get out without any repercussions from the Germans, so they would kill anyone who fell behind. In Auschwitz, a minimum 1.3 million people were deported between 1940 and 1945, and of these, at least 1.1 million were murdered. The Soviet army did save many, though, and even went back to save -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker
After intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler and Braun committed suicide. Eva by biting into a cyanide capsule and Hitler by shooting himself. The lifeless bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were carried up the stairs and through the bunker's emergency exit to the bombed-out garden behind the Reich Chancellery. -
Germans Surender
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The surrender brought World War Two in Europe to an end. On May 6th General Alfred Jodl arrived at Eisenhower’s headquarters to sign the surrender document. Four versions of the document were required: English, French, Russian and German. Before Jodl signed the surrender document, transcripts had been sent for approval to London, Paris and Moscow. As Hitler was dead,Jodl, was assinged to represent him at the signing cermemony -
Death Marches
SourceThe Death Marches was a movement of Jewish prisoners. It took place in 1944. Because of the publicity that the event managed to get, the evidence of the fact that the Jews were tortured was destroyed. All the concentration and extermination camps were cleaned up and made to look like decent and self respecting establishments. They knew that the British and American authorities could harm them.
