1. THE HOLOCAUST
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2. THE PERSECUTION BEGINS
Jews were blamed for defeats in WWI, 1935 Nuremberg laws took away citizenship of Jews
1938 Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass” German storm troopers raided homes and businesses of Jews
Jews attempted to flee Germany, countries around Germany created refugee restrictions
U.S. only accepted 100,000 refugees

3. THE PERSECUTION BEGINS (CONT.)
934 passengers on a ship to St. Louis
740 of them Jews with immigration papers
Rejected by the U.S. and sent back to Europe, more than half of them killed later in the Holocaust

4. HITLER’S “FINAL SOLUTION”
Policy of genocide to rid Europe of Jews
Rested on belief that Aryans were seen as the superior race
Attacked other groups who were seen as “inferior”
Created Elite Nazi “security squadrons”
Forced Jews into miserable ghettoes to work for German industry
Concentration camps cramped thousands of Jews into tight spaces and most ended up dying

5. Built 6 death camps in Poland
THE FINAL STAGE
1942 meeting in Wannsee, decided to begin a new mass murder of Jews using poison gas
Built 6 death camps in Poland
Auschwitz was largest death camp with large gas chambers, could murder 12,000 a day
Tried to hide evidence by cremating bodies
Estimated 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust