Holocaust Notes

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Holocaust Notes

• Objective Describe the Holocaust.

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The Holocaust

• The Allied liberation of Europe revealed the
  horrors of the Holocaust- Nazi Germanys system
  of slaughter of European Jews.
• Germanys conquest of Europe put millions of
  additional Jews under its control.

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German soldiers rounded Jews up sent them to
concentration camps, or were killed.
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The Final Solution

• Some used as slave labor and in some cases as
  human experimentation
• Germans practiced genocide- the deliberate
  annihilation of an entire people- against the
  Jews.
• Called it the final solution of the Jewish
  question

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• Nazis took advantage of a long history of
  anti-Semitism that went back to Middle Ages.
• Nazi propaganda stirred up this feeling

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Concentration camps were also used against
Gypsies, Poles, mentally disabled people, and
religious and political prisoners.
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By its end six million people were killed by the
Holocaust