-
Nazis silence their political opponents
Communists, socialists, liberals, and a lot of different kinds of people who spoke out against the government and shot them. -
Holocaust
Hitler took power in Germany and he ordered all "non Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. This eventually led to the Holocaust. -
Nuremberg Laws
Stripped Jews of their German citizenship abnd property. To make it easier for the Nazis to identify them, Jews had to wear a bright yellow star of David attached to their clothing. -
Period: to
Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass"
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. Around 100 Jews were killed and a lot injured. 30000 were arrested and hundreds of synagogues were burned. Then the Nazis blamed the Jews for everything. -
The Final Solution
Genocide- deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population -
The Plight of St. Louis
This German oceanliner passed Miami in 1939. Although 740 of the liner's 943 passengers had US immagration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. -
Death Camps
Each camp had gas chambers and as many as 12,000 people could be killed per day. They would separate the strong and the week. -
Methods of killing
Led into gas chambers and poisoned with cyanide gas that spewed from vents in the walls, played with cheerful music. Bodies were buried in huge pits, corpses would smell for miles.
