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The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews and
others: the systematic extermination
of millions of European Jews, Slavs,
intellectuals, homosexual people, and
political dissidents by the Nazis and
their allies during World War II.

Adolph Hitler
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Among his goals was
the removal of the
“non- aryans ”
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in particular the Jews

The Holocaust is Nazi
Germany’s systematic murder of
European Jews

The numbers
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6 million Jews - 2/3 of the
European Jewish population had
been massacred.
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5-6 million others also died in
captivity

By the 1880’s
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Anti-semitism had come to mean hostility
towards Jews.
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When the Nazi party took over in 1933,
anti-semitism became the official policy of
the nation.

Nuremberg Laws
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1935
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Stripped Jews of citizenship.
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Forbid marriage between Jews and non-
Jews.

Nuremberg Laws
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Dismissed Jewish employees and managers
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Jews were marked with a red letter J
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All Jewish women were given the middle
name of Sarah, men were given the middle
name of Israel .

Concentration Camps
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Places where POW’s were confined, under
harsh conditions. They soon held many
other undesirable people, including the
homeless, homosexuals, Jehovah's
Witnesses, people with mental and physical
disabilities and gypsies.

Organized attacks on Jews begin
in early 1938 .

Where can they go?

Roosevelt calls for a conference
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He wants to discuss
the growing numbers
of Jews.