Monday, March 5

Holocaust - genocide, 6 million Jews killed (2/3 of total European Jew population)

Killed: Jews, Gypsies, Mentally Handicapped, Soviet Slaves, POW's, Troops, Poles, Homosexuals, Communist/Socialist groups, dark-skinned, mixed races, Jehovah's Witnesses

Aryan Race: "master race," Blonde; Blue Eye'd; tall; muscular

Nuremburg Laws: Jews had no citizenship, anyone with atleast one Jewish grandparent was at risk, Jews could only marry Jews, restricted sexual relations between non-Jewish and Jewish people

Boycotted Jewish businesses

Kristallnacht - "night of the broken glass" 101 synagogues destroyed, 7500 businesses destroyed, 26000 jews arrested and sent to camps, jews were attacked:91 killed

Jewish children expelled from schools, Nazis took over all Jewish businesses

Death camps start in 1940

Final Solution: Kill them all.

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