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The Holocaust began in Germany after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in January
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Members of the Storm Troopers with boycott signs, stand in front of the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. One of the signs exhorts: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!" Berlin, Germany
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German Jews lost their citizenship according to the definitions posed in these new regulations. Only "full" Germans were entitled to the full protection of the law. This chart was used to aid Germans in understanding the laws. and this was part of the plan to cerate the master race by setting rules for the Jews by only allowing they to have kids with permission and they could only marry Jews.
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Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and this starts world war 2
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Nazi leaders decided to implement the mass murder of Europe’s Jews, The final solution was a plan to kill over 11 million made by the Germans to help create the master race
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In late 1941, the Nazi regime began building specially designed, stationary killing centers in German-occupied Poland. There were six major camps and they were Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
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Germans murdered ghetto residents en masse and dissolved ghetto administrative structures. They called this process “liquidation.”
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The Holocaust ended in May 1945 when the major Allied Powers (Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union) defeated Nazi Germany in World War II.
As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives, they overran concentration camps. There they liberated the surviving prisoners, many of whom were Jews.