The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• By Kelly Eden

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Adolf Hitler

• He started the concentration camps.
• He did not like Jewish, gypsies, or other types
  of people because of
  
• Religion
• Looks
• The people were forced to work and some were
  killed by
  
• Giving them diseases and trying to cure them
• Sent to death camps because they were to weak or
  to old

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Auschwitz

• Nazi Death Camp
• First camp built
• held 10,000 prisoners
• Located in Poland
• The second site was only 4.3 miles away
• Known as Auschwitz II

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Groups of People in the Concentration Camps

• Jews
• Poles
• Serbs
• Soviet military P.O.W.
• Disabled
• Homosexuals
• Excommunicated

• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Slavs
• Russians
• Communists
• Catholics
• Protestants
• Mentally Retarded

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Imprisoned, but Why?

• These people were sent there because they were
  not liked.
  
• It was during the time of war, and wanted to get
  rid of people.
  
• People are selected on a criteria
• For Hitler
• Religion
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Political status
• Sexuality
• Disabilities

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What occurred at these camps?

• Forced to work
• Put into gas chambers
• Had diseases put in them then tested the cures
  on them too.
  
• Worked Day Night
• Worked them to death
• Sent to death camps when weak or to old
• Children did not survive through the war.