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Holocaust
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Holocaust Intro
"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, were an alien threat to the German racial community. During the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority", Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
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The concentration camps
Concentration CampsThe first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas. It was annexed by Nazi Germany was the largest of the German concentration camps. The concentration camps also became sites for the mass murder of small targeted groups deemed dangerous for political or racial reason -
The Nazis decree a boycott
Boycott
A week after Hitler became dictator of Germany, he ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices, and department stores. But the boycott was mostly ignored by German shoppers and was called off after three days. However, the unsuccessful boycott was followed quickly by a series of laws which robbed the Jews of many of their rights. -
Beginning of the Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
Hitler was appointed in January (1933), and in May the Nazi troops entered Austria, which had a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. On the March 23 1933 the Reichstag gave Hitler the power to rule by decree. April 1 1933 marked the beginning of discriminatory legislation against the Jews in Germany. For example, most of them were banned from employment in the public sector. Further anti-Jewish decrees and legislation followed. -
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Operation BarbarossaUnder the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War II. Two years earlier, the Nazis and Soviets had signed a treaty but both sides knew it was just a temporary postponement of hostilities. For the Soviets, it gave them time to build up their defences and for Hitler the treaty gave him time to focus on the West before turning his attention eastwards. -
First test use of Zyklon-B gas
Zyklon-B
The disguised showerheads gassed the prisoners to death using Zyklon-B pellets. Zyklon B, a poisonous gas made from hydrogen cyanide crystals, was originally manufactured as a strong disinfectant and for pest control. The SS used Zyklon B for mass extermination in the gas chambers in an effort to satisfy Hitler's demand to annihilate all European Jews. -
Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
News ArticleThe German government declared war against that of the United States, as a start to the enslavement of the western hemisphere, part of their plan for taking over the entire world. The Congress came to the decision to dedicate all of the nation’s resources to the war against Germany in order to win. That included the nation’s military and naval forces to deploy and fight. -
Deportation of Ghettos
Warsaw GhettoGerman authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps. The Germans and their auxiliaries murdered more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the deportation operations. The German authorities granted only 35,000 Jews permission to remain in the ghetto, while more than 20,000 Jews remained in the ghetto in hiding. -
Danish Jews
RescueThe rescue of the Danish Jews occurred during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark during World War II. On October 1st 1943 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered Danish Jews to be arrested and deported. Despite great personal risk, the Danish resistance movement with the assistance of many ordinary Danish citizens took part in a collective effort to evacuate about 8,000 Jews of Denmark by sea to nearby Sweden, which was neutral -
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Rescue & Liberation
VideoLiberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied. Only after the liberation of these camps was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world. The small percentage of inmates who survived resembled skeletons because of the demands of forced labor and the lack of food, compounded by months and years of maltreatment. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
VideoAs the Battle of Berlin raged above him, realizing that all was lost and not wishing to suffer Mussolini's fate, German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Führerbunker along with Eva Braun, his long-term mistress whom he had married less than 40 hours before their joint suicide.
