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The Holocaust

By Craigishilarious

  • Nazi Takeover

    Nazi Takeover
    The Nazis eliminated communists, socialists, liberals because they opposed the Nazis. They also targeted Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Even some German people were found unfit including: homosexuals, the mentally deficient, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, and the incurably ill.

  • Persecution Begins

    Persecution Begins
    Hitler orderedd all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs.

  • Nuremburg Laws

    Nuremburg Laws
    These laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. Jews had to wear a bright yellow Star of David attached to their clothing.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Known as the "Night of Broken Glass." Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. Around 100 Jews were killed, and hundreds more were injured. Some 30,000 Jews were arrested and hundreds of synagogues were burned. The Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction.

  • St. Louis

    St. Louis
    This German ocean liner passed Miami. 740 of the liner's 943 passengers had U.S. immigration papers, but the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. The ship was forced to return to Europe. The New York Times wrote, "The cruise of the St. Louis cries to high heaven of man's inhumanity to man." More than half of the passengers were later killed in the Holocaust.

  • Hitler's "Final Solution"

    Hitler's "Final Solution"
    This "Final Solution" was a policy of genocide- the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. Hitler targeted Jews, communists, socialists, liberals, gypsies, freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the mentally deficient, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, and the incurably ill. Jews were shipped to concentration camps, or labor camps. Life in the camps was a cycle of hunger, humiliation, and work that almost always ended in death.

  • Death Camps

    Death Camps
    The Germans built six death camps in Poland. The first, Chelmno, began operating in 1941-before the meeting at Wannsee. Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12,000 people could be killed a day.

  • The Final Stage

    The Final Stage
    When prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, they were inspected to see if they were fit to work. If they weren't healthy, they were killed right away by being told to shower, but gassed instead. Prisoners were also shot, hanged, or injected with poison. Some were injected with deadly germs in order to study the effect of disease on different groups of people. Many more were used to test methods of sterilization. The bodies were buried in huge pits, burned in a crematorium, or burned in the pits.