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The Holocaust
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Holocaust

• Holocaust
• Derives from a Greek word that means a fire that
  burns something completely.
• Anti-Semitism
• Means the hatred of Jews
• Hitler wants to rid the world of all Jews
• He blames them for the defeat in WWI
• He blames them for the problems in Europe
• Also goes after Homosexuals, blacks and people of
  what he calls inferior races

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Nuremberg Laws of 1935

• Set of rules placed on all Jews in Germany
  controlled areas
• Ban Jews from public places
• They had to wear the Star of David on their
  cloths
• Forced many Jews out of their jobs

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Kristallnacht

• November 9, 1938 Night of Broken Glass
• Destroyed synagogues
• Destroyed Jewish businesses
• Arrested many Jews

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What was done

• Many Jews were deported
• Many Jews tried to get out
• 21,000 were deported to America
• This would happen at the beginning of the war
• Towards the end they came up with different ways
  of getting rid of them

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What was done

• Final solution
• Killing in death camps
• Auschwitz
• Dachau
• Jews were killed in many different ways
• Shot
• Poisoned
• Gassed in gas chamber
• Starved
• Burned in ovens
• 5,721,500 Jews were killed during WWII

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Dachau Concentration Camp
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Dachau Ovens
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Auschwitz Showers
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