The Holocaust
The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during WWII.
Approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust.
People that were killed
-Jews (6 million)
-Gypsies (500,000) to 1.5 million)
-Mentally/Physically handicapped people (75,000 to 250,000)
-Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops-(7.4 million included in the Holocaust)
-Polish people (2.5 million dead)
-Homosexuals (5-15 thousand)
-Communists/Socialists (many but number not confirmed)
-Dark skined people (death and forced to sterilization)
-Mixed races
-Jehovah's Witnesses (2,500-5,000)
-Free Masons (80,000-200,000)
Aryan Race- The original term regers to people speaking a Indo-European dialect; it's not just Germans
Lebensborn- Fount of Life
The program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to womrn and by restricting access to those deemed "fit"
Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territiores.
It was thought that maybe the women were raped but they were not.
Hitler's Jewish Question
Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens
The Nazis set up the first concentration cap at Dachau in 1933. the first inmates were 200 communists.
Jews were prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools. All but few Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.
Nuremburg Laws
Took away German citizenship rights from Jews.
If you had a three grandparents that were Jewish then you were considered to be Jewish as well.
-Eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent
Jews could only marry Jews.
No sexual relations between non- Jewish Germans
Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
Kristallnacht- Night of the Broken Glass. This was the night that the Nazis went breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting.
91 were killed and many were arrested and put in to concentration camps
All jewish children were expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria.
Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses.
1939- Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled. Jews were required to wear armband of yellow star or the Star of David.
1940- Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland to seperate the Germans and the Jews.
Jews were 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, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar- The 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.
Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Treblinka, Belzec, Auschwitz, Majdanek.
The US, Great Britian, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe.
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