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The Holocaust
On April 7, 1933, shortly after Hitler took power in Germany, he 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 the systematic murder of 11 million people across Europ, more than half of whom were jews. -
Final Solution
The Nazi had concentrated on silencing their political opponents communists, socilaists, liberals , and anyone else who spoke out against the government. -
Jew Targerted
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. To make it easier for the Nazi to identify them, Jews had to wear bring yeloow Star of David attached to their clothes. Worse was yes to come. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. An American who witnessesed the violence to wrote, "Jewish shop windows by the hundreds were systematically and wantonly smashed.... The main streets of the city were a positive litter of shattered plate glass. Around 100 Jews were killed, and hundreds more were injured. Some 30,000 Jews were arrested and hundreds of synagogues were burned. Afterward, the Nazi blamed the Jews for the Destruction. -
St. Louis
This German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. Although 740 of the liner's 943 paasengers had U.S. immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. -
Final Stage
At a meeting held in Wannsee a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitlers top officals agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews.