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1933
After the Nazi's took power, they took out any opponents: Socialists, communists, liberals, or anyone else who spoke against the government. They focused on other groups: Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses. Anyone who is inferior to the Aryan Race. They also targeted homosexuals, mentally deficient, disabled, and the incurably ill. -
April 7th, 1933
After Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered that all of people that are not Aryans to be removed from any government jobs.This order was one of the first moves his campaign for purity that will lead into the Holocaust. -
1935
Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. This made it easier for the Nazi's to identify the Jews because Jews were wearing the bright yellow Star of David attached to their clothing. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi storm troopers attached Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and Austria. An American who witnessed the violence 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." -
St. Louis
" Official indifference to the plight of Germany's Jews was in evidence in the case of the ship St. Louis. This ocean liner passed Miami in 1939." Even though 740 of 943 Passengers had U.S. Immigration paper. The Coast Guard prevented anyone from arriving to America. The Ship was forced to return to Europe. Later, more than half of the passengers were murdered in the Holocaust -
Final Solution
in 1939, when Hitler had more power and destroyed his opponents. He wanted to purify this "Aryan Race" and "Rid the world of Jews." But Jews were not the only target Hitler wanted to get rid of entirely. He targeted Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Homosexuals, Mentally deficient, Mentally Ill, Physically disable, and incurably ill. He rounded them up and send them to concentration camps. Some of the infamous were: Ebensee, Belzec, and Auchwitz -
Death Camps
The camp Auschwitz started operating in 1941- before the meeting at Wannsee. Each camp has several huge gas chambers where as many as 12,000 people could be killed a day. When people arrived at Auschwitz, they had to parade by multiple schutzstaffel doctors. The doctor separated the strong ones to become workers. They were told to leave their belongings behind. Those destined to die led into the room outside the gas chanber and were told to lose their clothes. They later were poisoned with gas. -
The Final Stage
At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin. Hitler's official of the top class agreed to begin this new phase mass murder and slaughter of Jews. Mass slaughtering and starvation will be their third method of killing. Murder by poison gas. This resulted in 6 million of the Jews murdered. Some did however escaped. Many had helped from ordinary people who were appalled by the Nazis' treatment of Jews. Some of the Jews even survived the horrors of the concentration camps.
