Holocaust-
-the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during WWII.
-from 1-17 million people died
-about 6 million jews.
-over 2/3rds were killed.
-Gypsies about- 1.5 million no place to call home, displaced.
-mentally and physically handicapped- 250,000 people
-Soviet Slavs, POW's, and Troops- 16.5million people
-poles -2.5million dead
-Homosexuals-5-15 thousand
-Communists, socialists- not known
-dark skinned- forced sterilization.
-mixed race, either rape o the mother was a whore.
-Jehovahs witnesses-5,000 people
Ayans
-in Germany, Noway, Luxenborg,
Lensborn:
-went to create more blond hair blue eyed kids
-people that did this were not married, soldiers and mothers "got together"
-There were great benefits, health care, food, living spaces
-women weren't raped they agreed to it
Hitler's Jewish Question
Timeline:
-Nazis "temporarily" took away civil liberties of Jews in 1933- ever restored
- Dachau- first concentration camp was set up in 1933 but was not a "Death Camp"
-Couldn't wok for the government, not doctors, or teachers.
-took away educational opportunity.
Nuremburg Laws: 1935:
1. took away citizenship, therefore took away their rights
2. established membership in the Jewish race.anyone that had only one Jewish grandparent was considered Jewish
3. Jews could only marry Jews
4. No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936
-Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
1938
-Kristallnacht- "night of the broken glass"
- gangs of nazis broke windows of Jewish businesses and homes
-101 synagogues wee destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed
-Jews were physically attacked and beaten 91 died.
-All Jewish children are expelled fro school
-Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
1939
-Hitler odes the systematic muder of the physically and mentally handicapped people in Germany and Austria
-Jews were required to wear arm bands or yellow stars
1940
-Nazis begin deporting German 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, Geman units shoot 33,771 Ukranian Jews at Babbi-Yar
1942
-Nazi officials announce "final solution" to kill all European Jews
-Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibo, Treblinka, Belzc, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
-Ghettos of atern Europe are being emptied as thousands of jews are shipped o death camps
-The US GB and SR acknowledge that Germans are exterminating he Jews of Europe
1943
-Jews i the Warsaw ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising.
1944
-Hitler takes over Hunga nd begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered
1945
-WWII ends
-The holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied
- Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
1947
- The UN establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becomes ...
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