Holocaust

By madisoneisemann

  • The Condemned

    The Condemned
    The Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents and anyone else who spoke out against the government. Once the Nazis eliminated these enemies, they turned against other groups in Germany.

  • The Persecution Begins

    The Persecution Begins
    Hitler ordered all “non- Aryans” to be removed from government jobs. This order was one of the first moves in a campaign for racial purity that eventually led to the Holocaust.

  • Jews Targeted

    Jews Targeted
    Germans blamed Jews for the cause of their failures. Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship, jobs, and property. Jews had to wear a bright Star of David attached to their clothes to be easier to identify.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    “Night of Broken Glass.” Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish home, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. Around 100 Jews were killed, hundreds more were injured. Some 30,000 Jews were arrested and hundreds of synagogues were burned. Afterwards, Nazi blamed Jews for destruction.

  • The Plight of the St. Louis

    The Plight of the St. Louis
    This German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. Although 740 of the liner’s 943 passengers had U.S. immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. The ship was forced to turn return back to Europe.

  • The Final Solution

    The Final Solution
    Targeted groups were Jews, Freemasons, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other Germans whom they found unfit to be a part of the “master race”. Victims included homosexuals, mentally deficit/ ill, physically disabled, and incurably ill. Jews were ordered into overcrowded ghettos that Nazis sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls. Concentration camps, also known as work camps, were where Jews in communities who were not reached by the killing squads were dragged to.

  • Death Camps

    Death Camps
    Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12,000 people could be killed a day. When prisoners arrived, if they were strong enough to work, they would die that day. Prisoners had to leave their belongings behind. Those who were destined to die that die were told to go into the gas chamber and undress for a “shower”. They were even given pieces of soap.

  • The Final Stage

    The Final Stage
    At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitler’s top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews. To mass slaughter and starvation, they would add a third order of killing - murder by poison gas.