Holocaust:
- Genocide of approxamatly 6 million European Jews during WWII
- A program of systematic state-sponsored extermintation by nazi Germany throughout Nazi territory.
Inferior according to hitler
- Christians
- Blacks and dark skinned
- Jew especially (6 million)
- Gypsies
- mentally and physically handicapped
- Poles (2.5 million)
- homosexual (5-15 thousand dead)
- Mixed races
- twins
- Jehovahs Witnesses
Nuremburg Laws 1935
- Took away german citizenship from jews
- Made jews second class citizens by removing their civil rights
- Jew could only marry jews
- No sexual relations between non-jewish germans and jews
Kristallnacht "night of the broken glass"
1940's
- Nazis began deporting jews
- 1940: Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
- In 2 days German Units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar-Largest single massacre of the holocaust
- The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
- 1942: Nazi officials announce "Final Solution" their plan to kill all European Jews
- 5 death camps begin operation in Poland Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Ghettos of eastern europe are being emptied as thousands of jews are shipped to death camps
- The US, Great Britain, and Soviet Union acknowledged the Germans exterminating the Jews of Europe.
- 1943: Jews in the Qarsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deporations. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis Put down the Uprising.
- 1945: Hitler is Defeated and WWII ends in Europe
- Holocaust is over and Death camps are emptied
- Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country to accept them.
- 1947: The United Nations establishes a jewish homeland.
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