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First Nazi Concentration Camps Appear
Used to hold people who opposed Hitler, and members of the opposing political parties. Later, people who were Gypsies, Jewish, mentally ill or disabled people, physically disabled and homosexuals were added to these camps. Started as labor camps. Almost resembled slavery. (https://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/10/10105.jpg) -
Laws Enacted Against Jewish People
In the year of 1933, Hitler created laws that revoked citizenship of the Jewish people. He made it more difficult for them to get jobs.At the time, Jewish people weren't able to join contracts. It even made it impossible for Jewish and Non-Jewish people to get married. (http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/W-Insight-1-HT-May12-op.jpg) -
Killing of Jews During the Holocaust
There were over 6 million Jews that were killed during the Holocaust. This included the young, the old, men, women, and children. (The link to the picture.... http://images.medicaldaily.com/sites/medicaldaily.com) -
What did they take from the people?
They took a lot from the Jews and other people in the camps. They took dolls, hair, shoes, brushes, happiness, family, and many other things. (http://cdn.topsecretwriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/buchenwald.jpg) -
Persecution of Jewish People Escalates
Hitler begins to change his goal, which was originally to have an ideal German Citizen. He starts to systemically execute Jewish people in his camps. (https://www.ushmm.org/m/img/N09425-700x468.jpg) -
Nazis Begin Transporting the Polish Jews
The Nazis started to take the Jews from Polish ghettos and transporting them to the camps that they had created. They focused mostly on Poland at this time, because they thought it would help them with the "Jewish Problem" (https://www.ushmm.org/m/img/N09425-700x468.jpg) -
Auschwitz Death Camps
These camps opened in 1942. The people in the other camps were sent there. They were divided into groups. The strongest one stayed to work and the weakest ones were sent to die. (https://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/90/90326.jpg) -
Survivors
Only about 20 thousand of the people in the camps survived. (The link to the picture...http://isurvived.org/Pictures_iSurvived-4/survivors2.GIF) -
The end of it all
The holocaust ended in 1945 when allied forces beat the Germans, which let the remaining Jews out of the camps. (https://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/70/70262.jpg) -
How did Hitler die?
Hitler and his wife committed suicide. Hitler made sure his wife committed first before he did. (The link for the picture...profile_images/1129432533/Hitler.jpg)
