The Holocaust

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The Holocaust
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Why Hitler Hated Jewish People

• They did not meet his race standards.
• Perfect Aryan Race was Blonde hair with Blue
  eyes.
• The Jews were the reason that World War I was
  lost.
• Hitler felt that the Jews impeded any advancement
  that he wanted for Germany.

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Final Solution

• Anyone Jewish, homosexual, gypsies, blacks, and
  Hispanics, needed to be cleansed out from
  society. Preferable for them to emigrate out of
  the region.
• 1935, the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws
  stripped Jews of their civil rights, political
  rights, and economic rights. By 1939, they were
  required to turn in any valuables that they
  possessed (jewelry, vehicles, etc.).

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• Surrender of possessions resulted in them being
  unable to emigrate. This is when the Ghettos
  emerged. Warsaw Ghetto most famous.
• The Ghettos were areas devout with hunger and
  disease. The German Armed Forces covered this up
  by saying the people were contained because of
  typhus.
• Ghettos were soon used as a transitional zone
  between society and the concentration camps.
• In Ghettos alone, documented death tolls are over
  80,000.

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The Experiments

• All experiments were conducted without any form
  of anesthesia.
• Bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration
  transplantation's from one person to another.
• Incisions on legs were filled with glass, wood
  chips, bacterial cultures, and metal shavings to
  resemble battle field wounds. One person with no
  treatment was compared with a person given
  sulfanilamide (antibiotic) to test effectiveness
  at various stages.

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• Air pressure experiments to see how much pressure
  a person could tolerate before death.
• Some camps poisoned the food with various poisons
  to determine rate of death versus prisoner
  reaction.
• Dr. Josef Mengele, head doctor at Auschwitz is
  most famous for his experiments on children.
• Took twins 2 years old, injected or used drops
  of various solutions in attempt to alter eye
  colors.

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• He killed all sets he experimented on by
  injecting chloroform into their hearts. Then, he
  would pathologically examine them in hopes of
  finding out how to increase the superior race.
• Sterilization experiments of men and women were
  conducted at various camps. Prisoners were given
  a drug called caladium seguinum. This would
  prevent procreation in the event they lived
  through the horrible experiences of concentration
  camps.

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U.Ss play in the Holocaust

• 1942, War Refugee Board was established after the
  State Department admitted knowledge of the
  genocide.
• The U.S. had an immigration policy the general
  public thought that was the answer.
• It was found out later that the state department
  declined visa applications to over 90 Jewish
  applications.

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• 930 Jewish refugees on board a luxury liner St..
  Louis were refused admittance to the United
  States. They were sent back to Europe.
• Bombing raids plastered many targets in close
  proximity to many camps, especially Auschwitz.
  U.S. said any diversion in the air power would
  detract from the war effort and prolong the war.
• In 1944, the Jewish authorities here in the
  United States publicly pleaded with the
  government to bomb the railways leading to
  Auschwitz.

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• Eventually in late 1944, the War Refugee Board,
  under President Roosevelt, set up war refugee
  camps in New York, Hungary, and North Africa. It
  is accredited with saving 200,000 lives.

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Other Ironic Facts

• Ford motor plant manufactured vehicles and sold
  them to the Nazi regime. There were also pictures
  of Ford with a photograph of Hitler in his
  office.
• Pharmaceutical companies in America sent drugs to
  the Nazis that were used in the experiments.
  These companies were McNeil Pharmaceuticals
  (maker of Tylenol) and Whitehall-Robbins
  Pharmaceuticals (maker of Motrin).

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