The Holocaust
-6 million jews died
-2/3 of european jews died
-total holcaust victims between 11 & 17 million died
1. jews(6 million)
2.gypsies(500,000 to 1.5 million)
3.mentals(75,000-250,000)
4.soviet slavs..
5.poles(2.5 mill)
6.homosexuals(5-15 thousand)
7.communists/socialists
8.dark skinned people
9. mixed races
-Aryan Race..blonde, blue eyed, tall, muscular
-first concentration camp was Dachau in 1933...were mostly communist
-Nuremburg Laws..took away German citizenship and took away their civil rights, jews could only marry jews
-Kristallnacht "night of broken glass"
-1940: nazis forced jews to poland...forced to ghettos
-death camps started in 1940's
-"final solution"..kill all jews!
-death camps: auschwitz, belzec, treblinka
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