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The Condemned
After taking power, the Nazi's had concentrated on silencing their political opponnts-communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government. -
The Persecution Begins
Hitler ordered all "non-Aryan" to b removed from goverment jobs. -
Jews Targeted
The Nuremburg laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property, to make it easier for the Nazi’s to be identified. -
Kristallnacht
Became known as Kristallnacht, or “night of broken glass.” Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. -
St. Louis
St. Louis was a boat full of Jews who were coming to find refuge in the United States, we sent them back and more than half of them were later killed in the Holocaust. -
The Final Solution
Started with Hitler’s death squads, Hitler’s “security squadrons” rounded up Jews-men women, children, and babies-and shot them. Nazi’s surrounded the ghettos with barbed wire and stone walls. Bodies piled in the streets. Secret schools were set up to educate Jewish children, theater and music groups continued to operate. Jews not killed were shipped to concentration camps, or labor camps. Inmates crammed into wooden barracks, hordes of rats, and fleas, the hunger was unbearable. -
Death Camps
TheGermn built six death camps in Poland. Each had several huge gas chambers which 12,000 people could be killed a day. -
The Final Stage
Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews. As deadly as overwork, starvation, beatings, and bullets were, they did not kill fast enough to satisfy the Nazi’s. So the Nazi’s decided to build 6 death camps, and each camp included several gas chambers, killing as many as 12,00 people a day.
