Holocaust:
-6 million Jews killed
-Genocide: Race based and systmatic way of killing
-A program of systematic state sponsered extermination by Nazi Germny throughout Nazi occupied territory
-2/3 the population of 9 million Jews died
-Total number of Holocause victims would be between 11-17 million people
-targeted Jews, Blacks/Dark skinned people, Gypsies, mentally/physically handicap, soviet slavs/POW/Troops, Poles, Homosexuals,communists/socialist, Jehovah's Witnesses
-Hitler killed people b/c he feared mixed race
Aryan Race:
-blonde haired/blue eyed, tall and muscular
-misued by the nazis to mean a so called master race that originated around Germany
Lebensborn-Fount of Life:
-Program aimed to promote the growth of superior Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restricting access to those deemed fit
-Housed were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories
-Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape
Hitlers jewish Question:
-Nazis temporarily suspend civil liberties of all citizens in1933-Never restored
-The Nazis set up the first concentrationcamp at Dachau in 1933.The first inmates are 200 communists
-Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants,doctors in the National Health Service,and teachers in public high schools. All but few Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.
Nuremburg Laws:
-Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
-established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three or four Jewish grandparents. people with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race.
-Jews can only marry Jews
-No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936:
-Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
1938:
-Kristallnacht
-Nazis youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods braking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting
-Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
-all Jewish children are expelled form public schools in Germany and Austria
1939:
-Hitler orders systematic murder of the mentally and phusically disabled in Germany and Austria
-Jews are requared to wear armbands or yellow stars
1940:
-Nazis begin deporting Jews to Poland
-Jews are forced into ghettos
-Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland
1941:
-Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
-In two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar-the largest single massacre of the Holocause
-The death camp of Cheimno in Poland begins mudering Jews
1942:
-Nazis officials announce the Final Solution their plan to Kill all European Jews
-Five death camps begin operation inPoland: Majdanek, Sobibor,Treblinka,Belzec, and Auschwitz-Bikenau
-Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
-The United Staates, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union acknowledge and Germans are exterminating the JEws of Europe
1943:
-Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deoprtations. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising.
1944:
-Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deoprting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered.
1945:
-Hitler is defeated and WW2 ends in Europe
-The Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied.
-Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country wiling to accept them.
1947:
-The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948.
Nazi Scientist experment
-Nazi Science in the camps
-Mengele's children the twins of Auschwitz
-Josef Mnegels was the chief physician at Auschwitz
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