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Nuremburg Race Laws
Nuremburg Race Laws
Laws are set against the German Jews stating they were excluded from Reich citizenship and prohibited from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." -
Kristallnacht
the Night of Broken Glass
Kristallnacht is reffered to as "the Night of Broken Glass". Kristallnacht was the night of destruction to Jewish Synagogues and other community property by rampaging Nazi mobs.
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"Final Goal"
Germany conquers Poland and the German S.S. immediately begins action against Polish Jews. The Nazi Reichskommisar for Jewish affairs, Reinhard Heydrich, orders that Polish Jews be gathered into ghettos near railways for their "final goal" -
Nazi Propaganda
Der Stürmer
In the Nazi racist newspaper, Der Sturmer, predicts: ". . . . the time is near when a machine will go into motion which is going to prepare a grave for the world's criminal — Judah — from which there will be no resurrection." -
Zyklon-B Gas
Zyklon-B Gas
On September 3, 1941 the first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.an Kyklon-B was originally designed to be used as a disinfectant and an insecticide, the Nazis discovered through experimentation however that the gas could be used to kill humans. -
Words spill
The World Finds outdetailed information that the Nazis are planning the extermination of Europe's Jews is leaked to the World Jewish Organization by a German business man. This is forwarded to the British and American governments. By a statement of the British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, to the House of Commons the British and Americna governments make this public in general terms and warn that these crimes will be punished. -
Beginning of the End.
AuschwitzRussian troops overrun Auschwitz. An estimated 2 milllion people (including 1.5 millliion Jews) have been murdered in the complex of camps around Auschwitz alone. Till the end of the war agianst Germany, other concentration camps are liberated in the East and in the West. Film is taken of the survivors at the time of liberation, of dead and dying that have not been disposed of, and of the horrible conditions in the camps. -
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Holocaust Memorial Museum
Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others (targeted groups like the Gypsies and homosexuals, as well as individual resiters and other victims of the Nazis) were victims of the Holocaust, the planned and organized implementation of mass murder arising out of Nazi racial and political theories. In total, the deaths arising from Nazi actions leading to war amounted to perhaps 45-50 million victims.
