The Holocaust
_- Nordic race thought to be superior beings
- Jews made out to be despicable beings deserving death
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour
- Hitler decided to begins the extermination of the Jewish race and makes it a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen, a special section of the S.S. for the mentally insane
- Shooting and burning them was not efficient enough so gas chambers were used instead
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust.
- Jews made out to be despicable beings deserving death
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour
- Hitler decided to begins the extermination of the Jewish race and makes it a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen, a special section of the S.S. for the mentally insane
- Shooting and burning them was not efficient enough so gas chambers were used instead
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust.
Summary
_Hitler instilled a huge amount of propaganda and laws that discriminated
Jews. He had them deported to camps; first working camps then death
camps. The main goal was to exterminate the entire race.