The Holocaust
- genocide- killing people because of their race/religion/country
- 6 million European Jews during WW2
- 2out of every 3 out of 9 million Jews were killed
Races killed
- Jews- 6 million
- Gypsies- 500,000 to 1.5 million
- handicapped-75,000 to 250,000
- Soviets-16.5 million
- Poland- 2.5 million
- homosexuals-15,000
- communists
- dark skinned
- mixed race
- Jehovah's Witnesses-2,500 to 6,000
Aryan Race
- blonde hair, blue eyed,
- tall & muscular
- speak Indo-European
Lebensborn
- meaning- fount of life
- was to create the Aryan race- you were taken good care of
- women most the time volunteered
- houses were set up in Germany and in many occupied countries
Hitler's Jewish Restraints
- took away their rights(temporary)
- 1st concentration camp set up in 1933- 1st inmates were 200 Communists
- Jews lost their jobs and kids were banned from school
Nuremburg Laws 1935
- took away Jews citizenship rights
- if you had any Jewish relatives you were a Jew
- Jews could only marry Jews
- no sexual relations with non-Jewish Germans and Jews
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- can't buy from Jewish stores
Kristallnacht-1938
- "Night of the Broken Glass"
- November 9th & 10th Nazis broke Jewish businesses windows
- 101 synagogues destroyed
- 7,500 businesses destroyed
- 26,000 Jews arrested
- 91 Jews were killed
1938
- Jewish kids were kicked out of school
- Nazis took control of Jewish businesses
1939
- handicapped were murdered
- all Jews were required to wear a yellow star or armbands
1940
- deport Jews to Poland
- Jews were forced to ghettos
- first mass murder began
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