https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt Made with the best of intentions en-us 2018-03-24 00:55:43 UTC 2018-03-24 01:03:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 20madspi https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684106 The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews]]> 2018-03-24 00:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684106 20madspi https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684147 The two Nuremberg Laws were unanimously passed by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans, and forbade the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households.]]> 2018-03-24 00:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684147 20madspi https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684218 Nazis targeted Jews and forced them to live in concentration camps or execute them in the streets, just for the sole fact that they were Jewish and "undesirables".]]> 2018-03-24 00:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684218 20madspi https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684248 The origin of the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain. What is clear is that the genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. The "Final Solution" was implemented in stages.]]> 2018-03-24 00:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684248 20madspi https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684342 the American Jewish community responded with alarm to Wise’s news. American and British Jewish organizations pressured their governments to take action. As a result, Great Britain and the United States announced that they would hold an emergency conference in Bermuda to develop a plan to rescue the victims of Nazi atrocities.

]]> 2018-03-24 01:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684342 20madspi https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684387 This took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death.]]> 2018-03-24 01:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20madspi/1kqia1jsoibt/wish/245684387