Who was killed in the Holocaust?
-6 million Jews
-Gypesies- ethnic group who didnt have a country to call home(1.5million)
-Handicapped people(75,000)
-Soviet Slavs/POW's Troops(16.5million.)
-Poles(2.5million)
-Homosexuals(5-15 thousand)
-Communists/Socialists(unknown)
-Dark Skinned
-Jehovah's Witnesses- Relegious group, they beleive (2,500-5,000)
Aryan Race
-Misussed by Nazis to mean master race that was around Germany
-Blonde, blue eyed, tall, and muscular
-Refers to people speaking Indo-European dialect.
-Germnay, Norway, Speden, Belgin, Netherlands, Great Britian were coutries Hitler considered Aryan.
Hitler's Question
-What are we going to do with the Jews?
-First thing he did was take away their rights for a small amount of time
-First concentration camp was Dachau set up in 1933, first inmates were Communists
-Jews were banned from being doctors and teachers. Jews were taken out of high school or college.
Nuremburg Laws 1935
-Took away German citizinship
-Established memership inthe Jewish race
-People who had three of four Jewish grandparents were considered mixed race
-Eventually, anyone who had one Jewish grandparent were at risk of going into a camp
-Jews could only marry Jews
-No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936
-Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
Kristallnacht 1938
-Night of Broken Glass
-November 9 and 10, 1938
-101 synagogues were destroyed and 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed
-91 died in the attack
-Jewish childern were expelled from public schools
1939
-Hitler orders the murder of physically disables in Germnay and Austria
-Jews are required to werar arm bands or yellow stars
1940
-Natzis begin deporting German Jews to Poland
-Jews are forced to ghettos
-Natzis begin the first mass of murder
1941
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