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Adolf Hitler
Hitler was the man in charge and fully responsible for Jews that were killed in probably the most torturious and terrible ways known to man. Not only did he have the Nazi's and other German's to help, but he had the Hungarian Police, and even Jews! The ones that didn't mind going behind their families backs pretty much just so that their life would be saved. Hitler and his accomplices killed over 6 MILLION people. -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust had a huge impact on our perspective of WW2. Without knowledge of the Holocaust or without even the existence of the Holocaust, I’d imagine that there would be many more accounts of the war from the axis powers. -
first organized attacks on German opponents.
Several weeks after Hitler gained power, the first organized attacks on German opponents of the regime and on Jews broke out across Germany. -
the “Nuremberg Laws” were passed
This law stripped the Jews of their citizenship forbid intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews. Jews were banned from universities and achieving jobs that had the potential to make a lot of money or climb the social ladder. -
Jews Banned From Travelling
Jews contained in Germany by act making Jewish passports invalid for international travel. Considering Storm Troopers would storm houses in search Jews as well as Jews being unable to leave the country, it was like they were being trapped. -
"Euthanasia"
Around 200,000-350,000 disabled individuals were sterilized until 1939. Beginning in 1939, approximately 200,000 were murdered either by gassing, lethal injection or starvation. -
Beginning of Ghettos
The beginning of World War II, after the conquest of Poland, the Jews of Eastern Europe were concentrated in ghettos, meanwhile in Western Europe the Jews were registered and they lost their property. -
Jews were forced inside the area of the ghetto.
Polish Jews were surounded by walls that they built themselves. They were cut off from the outside world. there was a constant struggle for survival because of disease and starvation. -
The World's Reaction.
"US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill gave the Germans a public warning about the responsibility that would be laid at their feet for the murder of the Jews of Europe. However, the political concept that became dominant among the politicians and generals was that winning the war came first; this would, by proxy, also stop the murder of the European Jews." -
Smuggling and helping Jews Escape
Some rescuers helped Jews to leave especially dangerous areas in order to escape to a less dangerous location. They smuggled Jews out of ghettos and prisons and helped them cross borders into unoccupied countries or into areas where the persecution was less intense, such as neutral Switzerland." -
"Holocaust"
Greek words "holos" (whole) and "kaustos" (burned) The word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) -
Death Marches
The marches served 2 purposes:
1, to make sure no one would be left to testify to the mass murders (they didn't want the world to know about the Holocaust)
2, "to exploit the Jewish labor force until the last possible moment at the destination of the marches in German and Austrian camps. It was really an obstacle to their own escape from the Red Army making them even more eager to kill their prisoners and get away." -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during during the Holocaust of World War II.