holocaust continued
-jews (6 million)
-gypsies (1.5 million)
-mentally physically handicapped people (75-250 thousand)
-soviet slavs/POWs/Troops (16.5 million)
-poles (2.5 millioin)
-homosexuals (5-15 thousand)
-dark skinned- death and forced sterilization
-mixed races
Nuremburg Laws 1935
-took away german citizenship from jews making jews second class citizens removing their basic civil rights
-you were considered jewish if you considered yourself jewish or if you had 3 or 4 jewish grandparents, it then dropped to 1 jewish grandparent you were a threat.
-jews could only marry other jews so they didn't spread the race
-no sexual relations between non-jewish germans and other jews
-tried to boycot jewish business
-kristallnacht 1938 "night of the broken glass"
nov. 9&10
breaking and burning jewish neightborhoods
101 synagogues and 7500 businesses destroyed
26000 jews arrested and sent to concentration camps
jews were physically attacked and breaten- 91 killed
1938
all jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
nazis take control of jewish owned businesses
1939
hitler orders systematic murder of the mentally and physically disable in germany and austria
jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stara
1940
nazis begin deporting german jews to poland
jews forced into ghettos
nazis begin the first murder of jews in poland
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