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The Holocaust

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    Nazification of Germany

    Hitler began acquiring more land, and was turning Germany into a police state. https://youtu.be/zRprGgtyWRc

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    The Nuremberg Laws took all civil rights from Jewish people and separated them from German citizens legally, socially, and politically. They were considered a separate race which was considered by ancestry.

  • WWII Begins

    WWII Begins
    Hitler invade Poland, which officially started WWII.

  • The Ghettos

    The Ghettos
    Jews 10 years old or more had to wear the Star of David to mark themselves as Jewish. This made it easier to to identify them when the Nazis began sending them to Ghettos, small towns filled with Jews. They were filthy & overcrowded. They had terrible sanitation and disease was rampant. https://youtu.be/wuC_DOU8ULE

  • Gassing Vans

    Gassing Vans
    These were vans that were used to asphyxiate Jews with carbon monoxide. They were used until they could complete the first death camp, which was called Chelmno.

  • Death Camps

    Death Camps
    Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jewish population (Jewish genocide) went into full swing. Several camps, including Auschwitz began operating as death camps. Jewish people were killed when they arrived.
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    Resistance

    Some Jewish and and Partisan groups resisted the Nazis. Some Jewish were able to escape, some falsified documents, and of course there were Germans who broke the law and helped them. This was extremely dangerous to all parties involved. Helping Jewish people resulted in immediate death. Despite the dangers, there were underground movements that existed to help the Jewish people. https://youtu.be/S712y5jHNTY?list=PL1122J9njEn-hxaQQ5CRkNcb66rB5NeKf

  • Revolts

    Revolts
    In the spring and summer of 1943 prisoners started to attempt revolts in the Ghettos and Camps. Few survived escape and those remaining in the dwellings were killed.
    https://youtu.be/1sS_tf8ySps

  • WWII Ends-Rescue & Liberation Begins

    WWII Ends-Rescue & Liberation Begins
    The Allied forces begin entering the territories that were occupied by the Nazis. They are horrified by what they find in the concentration camps.