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The Holocaust

  • Start of the Holocaust

    Start of the Holocaust
    The Nazi's and the German Government began to carry out a systematic persecution of Jew's in Europe.
  • Concentration camps

    Concentration camps
    The Nazi's started to make concentration camps, placing the "dangerous" people in them. Anyone that didn't fit into the the category of the superior race.
  • Hitler as Chancellor

    Hitler as Chancellor
    Hitler addresses his first session of German Parliament following his appointment as Chancellor
  • Invading Poland

    Invading Poland
    Germany invades Poland and confiscates Jewish property
  • Transporting the Jew's

    Transporting the Jew's
    Nazi Germans began carrying out mass murders of Jew's, and deporting them to ghettos or killing centers.
  • Betraying the Soviet Union

    Betraying the Soviet Union
    In 1941 Germany turned on its ally, the Soviet Union. They began to cause mass shootings
  • End to the war

    End to the war
    By this time the Germans had killed over six million Jews as part of a systematic genocide. When allied troops came in they found piles of corpses, bones, ashes, and survivors!
  • War criminals

    War criminals
    After the liberation of concentration camps trials began for convicted war criminals