The Holocaust
It was teh genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II. Approximately two thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe died. Some maintain that the definition of thE holocaust should also include the Nazis genocide of millions of people in other groups from GErmany and other occupied territory. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.
He thought these people were inferior:
Jews
Gypsies
mentally/physically handicapped
Slavic
Poles
Homosexuals
communists/socialists
dark skinned people
mixed races
twins
Jehovah's Witnesses
anybody that fought back
The Aryan Race
BLonde hair, blue eyed. Tall and muscular.
Hitler's Jewish Question - 1933
Nazis temporarily supsend civil ilberties for all citizens in 1933 - Never restored
The Nazies set up the first conectration camp at Dachau in 1933. The first inmates are 200 communists. Jews are prhoibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in high schools. ALl but few Jeish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.
Nuremburg Laws - 1935
Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights. Established membership i nthe Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three or four Jewish grandparent. people with one or two jewish grandparents were considered mixed race. Eventually anone with at least one Jewish granndparent was at risk in Nazi Germany. Jews could only marry Jews. NO sexual relatiosn between non Jewish Germans and Jews
Night of the Broken Glass - 1938
On the nights of NOvember 9 and 10, 1938, gangs of Nazi youth raomed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting. IN all, 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. 26000 jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack.
All jewish children are new expelled from public schools in Germany and AUstria. Nazis take control of Jewish - owned businesses.
1939
Jews required to wear armbands or yellow stars
1940
Nazis begin deporting Jews to Poland. Jews are forced into Ghettos. Nazies begin the first mass murder of Jews in poland.
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