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Holocaust beginning
The Holocaust started January 30, 1933. Hitler became chancellor of Geramny. This led to 6,000,000 Jews being murdered before the war was over. Also caused 5,000 Jewish communities to be destroyed.But that was the beginning to the many things that happened. -
Concertration camps
The Nazi's tattooed numbers on the arms of prisoners abd dressed them in stripped uniforms with triangle insignias.There were no restraints on sadistic guards who killed and tortured prisoners without fear of reprisal. People died of stravation and disease everyday. Doctors performed experiments on the prisoners that either killed them or left them deformed. -
Millions are mrdered in Death Camps
These death camps were fully fuctioning death camps. The bodies of the victims were futher deserated. Human fat was turned into soap. The victims gold fillings, wedding rings, and other valuables were stripped off the victims. After they took what they wanted from them, they burned their bodies. -
The Nuremberge Laws
This was the formation of the measures taken towards the Jews. The law was to deny German citizenship to Jews and baned marriage of Jews and non Jews. The laws segregated Jews at very level of society. That wasn't enough for Hitler so he made a plan called "The Final Solution". -
Violence erputs on Kristallnacht
This was the most serious attack of all called The Night of The Broken Glass." Nazi officals ordered atacks on Jews in Germany, Austria and Sudetenland. Secret police and military units destroyed more than 1,500 synagogues and 7,500 jewish owned businesses. The also killed 200 Jews and injured 600 more. -
Millions are murdered in death camps
The death camps are were the prisoners were systematically exterminated. Reinhard Heydrich was the leader to put the plan in place to kill 11 million jews in Polish death camps. The largest death was Auschwitz in southern Poland. Prisoners were transported to these camps from various parts by train and murdered. They forced them into death camps. -
Nazi's Adopt Final Solution
Today we would call Hitler's "Final Solution" genocide. In 1933 Hitler opened his first concentration camp, where numbers of specially designated groups were confined. The camps were degined not to kill prisoners, but to make them useful members of the Third Reich. They also imprisoned anyone who spoke out against him. -
D-day
Allied troops landed along a 50 mile strech of heavily fortified French coastline. They went to fight the Nazi's on the beaches of Normandy, France. Esienhower called opperation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 9,000 Allied troops were killed but more than 10,000 marched across Europe to defeat Kitler. -
The Allies and The Holocaust
By 1942 the Allies realized and publicly acknowleged that Jews were being taken to Poland and killed there. By 1944 FDR established the War Refugee Board, which worked with The Red Cross to save thousands of Eastern European Jews. He especially in Romania and Hungaray. The Allies were focused on defeating Hitler and not saving Jews. They could have stopped them transporting the Jews but didn't want to divert air support for troops fighting. -
End of The Holcaust
The SS moved the camp inmates by train or forcing them to march in attampt to prevent Allied liberation. These walks were called death marches. These marched continued till May 7, 1945 the day German armed forces were forced to surrender to the Allies. On May 9, 1945 became known as Victory Day. By the end of this hundreds of Jewish communits were destroyed. The last death camp was closed in 1957.
