Holocaust- genocide- the killing of one whole race. 6 million Jews . 11 to 17 million people.
Gypsies (500,000 to 1.5 million)
Mentally/ physically handicapped (75,000 tp 250,000)
Soviet Slavs/ POW's/ Troops- 16.5 million)
Poles- (2.5 million)
Homosexuals- 5 to 15 thousands
Communist/ socialist (many but not numbered confirmed
Dark skinned people( death and forced sterilized)
Mixed races- Hitler hated them
Jevovahs Witness (2,500- 5,000)
Aryan Race- misused by the nazis to mean a so called master race that originated around Germany.
Perfect Aryan was blonde hair, blue eyed, tall and muscular.
The original term refers to a people speaking a Indo- European dialect.
Lebensborn- fountains of life- blonde hair and blue eyed women were taken in and had relationas with men to make the perfect babies. the women volunteered
Hitler's Jewish Question
First camps- 1933 for communist
Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants doctors in the national health services, and teachers in public schools, Jewish students were banned from public high schools and colleges.
Nuremburg Laws 1935
-took away Germans citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
-three or four Jewish grandparents
-Jews could only marry Jews
- no sexual relations between non-jewish Germans and Jews
1936
-Nazis boycotted Jewish owned businesses
Kristallnacht- 1938 (night of the broken Glass)
this wasnt meant to kill the jews only 91 deaths
1938- all jewish kids were kicked out
-nazis took over their businesses
1939-
Hitler orders the systematic murder of mentally disabled t
Jews were required to wear yellow star bands
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