Today, we talked more about hitler's treatment of jews and stuff. yippee.
IV. Hitler's Treatment of the Jews
-Jews burned, gassed. 6 million killed; genocide. Holocaust. Sent to concentration and death camps. Jews, gypsies, handicapped people, slavic people, poles, homosexuals, communists, dark skinned people, mixed races, and Jehovah's Witnesses were all inferior according to Hitler. Aryan; master race, pure blood, blonde haired and blue eyed. Lebensborn-Fount of Life- houses set up throughout Germany; program to promote growth of Aryan populations. Temporarily suspended civil liberties from all German citizens in 1933(were never restored). First concentration camp at Dachau in 1933. First inmates were 200 communists. Jews prohibited from working as teachers, civil servants, and doctors. Nearly all Jewish students banned from public highschools and colleges. Nuremburg laws 1935- took away German citizenship from Jews, making them second class citizens.. As little as being 1/4 Jewish put you at risk.. Jews could only marry Jews.. no sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews. 1936; Nazis boycott Jewish businesses. 1938; Kristallnacht; "Night of the Broken Glass"; Nazi gangs of youth roamed through Jewish neighborhood and broke window of Jewish businesses and homes, burned synagogues and looting. Jews physically attacked and beaten. All Jewish children expelled. Nazis took over Jewish businesses. 1939; Hitler ordered murder or mentally and physically disabled. Jews required to wear armbands with Star of David. 1940; Jews deported to Poland. Jews forced into ghettos. Begin first mass murder of Jews in Poland. 1941; German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar-largest single massacre of the Holocaust. First death camp at Chelmno in Poland built to kill Jews. 1942; Nazi officials announce "Final Solution"; plan to kill all European Jews. Five death camps begin operating in Poland; Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ghettos emptied and Jews shipped to death camps. U.S. Great Britain and Soviet Union acknowledge tthat Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe. 1943; Warsaw ghetto full of Jews resisted Nazis, lost after a month. 1944; Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. 1945; Hitler defeated. Holocaust over and death camps emptied. Many survivors placed in displaced persons camps. 1947; Jewish homeland established, Israel. Mengele had fascination with twins. He and other doctrs performed terrible experiments on live Jews.
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