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The Holocaust

By jannik98

  • The Condemned

    The Condemned
    After taking the power in 1933, the Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents-communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government.

  • The Persecution Begins

    The Persecution Begins
    Hitler ordered to remove all "non-Aryans" from governmetn jobs.
    This was one of the moves in a campaign for racial purity that eventually led to the Holocaust.

  • Jews targeted

    Jews targeted
    In 1935, the Nurmberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citiezienship, jobs, and property.Jews had to wear a bright yellow star of David attached to their clothing.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Became famous as the "Night of Broken Glass". Nazi Storm troopers attacked jewish, houses, business, and symagogues acrossGermany.

  • The Plight of ST. Louis

    The Plight of ST. Louis
    Official indifference to the plight of Germanys Jews was in evidence in the case of the ship ST. Louis. This German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. Altough 740 of the liners 943 passengers had U.S. immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from dissembarkingAmerica.

  • The Final Solution

    The Final Solution
    By 1939 only about a quarter million jews remaind in Germany. Obsessed with a desire to rid Europe of Jews, Hitler imposed what he called the"Final Solution". a policy of genocide, the deliberation and systematic killing of an entire population.
    Groups targeted were communists, liberals and many more. Many jews were put into concentration camps. They had to perform labor and live a miserable life.
    Concentration camps were used by the SS as warehouses of other undesirables.

  • Death camps

    Death camps
    Nazi Germany build 6 death camps in Poland. The first Chelmno, began operarting in 1941. It has several Gas chambers were up to 12000 people could eb killed each day.The largest Death Camp was Ausschwitz,

  • The Final Stage

    The Final Stage
    The Final Solution reached its final stage in early 1942. At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside subur near Berlin, Hitlers top officilas agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews.Mass slaughter and starvation would be added to the method of using poison gas.