The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• 1933-1945

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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of
GermanyJanuary 30, 1933
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Germany1933

• The Nazis bring Totalitarian control
• German Parliament
• legalizes Hitlers control of government
• Nazis boycott Jewish
• shops businesses

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Nazi Persecutions Intensify

• 1933 brings mass book burnings all over germany
• Jewish authors are among the targets of
  censureship and book
  
• burnings
• Jews are excluded from the arts

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Jews are targeted for more persecution

• 1934
• Jews are banned from German Labor Unions
• Jews are not allowed National Health Insurance
• Hitler is given the title of Fuhrer

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1935

• Jews are banned from the military
• Women are given forced abortions
• Nuremberg Race Laws are passed

Joseph Goebbles at book burning rally
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1937

• Jews are banned from the German professions
• Jews are denied tax deductions by the German
  government
  
• Jewish stereotyping begins with the Eternal Jew
  Exhibition

Eternal Jew Exhibition
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1938

• Jewish schoolchildren are forbidden to attend
  school with non-Jewish children
  
• Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass against
  Jews occurs
  
• Hermann Goring takes charge of solving the
  Jewish Question

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1940

• Auschwitz is the first of new death camps
• Polish Ghettos sealed with thousands of Jews
  inside
  

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Death Camps

• In 1941 Jews were forced to wear Yellow stars
• Mass Killings using Zylon B gas begin at Auschwitz

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1942-45

• Statistics
• 9,508,340 Jews lived in Europe before World War
  II
  
• 5, 962, 129 were killed in German Concentration
  camps or were worked to death on civil projects
  
• 3, 546, 211 survived until the allies liberated
  them from the camps

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Sources

• Library of Congress (AAM Collection)http//www.lo
  c.gov
  
• United States Holocaust Museumhttp//www.ushmm.or
  g
  
• Univ. of South Florida Holocaust
  Pagehttp//fcit.cocdu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/
  Website.htm