Holocaust Research - What by Jenna Lowe

tylerBeginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettoes in Poland to the concentration camps, starting with those people viewed as the least useful: the sick, old and weak and the very young.

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Marshall

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The Jews were put in places called death camps

Josiah

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The murder of the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II took place in Germany and Germany-occupied territory.

Katie

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The use of camps equipped with gas chambers for the purpose of systematic mass extermination of peoples was a unique feature of the Holocaust and unprecedented in history. Never before had there existed places with the express purpose of killing people en masse.

Jonny

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The Night of Broken Glass included the pillaging and burning of synagogues, breaking the windows of Jewish-owned businesses, the looting of these stores,

Matthew

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It is estimated that the Nazis established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries.

Josiah

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Torture was common in concentration camps. Medical experiments were often performed on prisoners in concentration camps.

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The Holocaust is a history of enduring horror and sorrow.

sasha

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Around 375,000 individuals were sterilised against their will because of their disabilities.^[

Shelbi

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At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program.

Tyler

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The twin goals of racial purity and spatial expansion were the core of Hitler’s worldview,

sasha

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Around 375,000 individuals were sterilised against their will because of their disabilities.^[

Marshall

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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

Hitler wrote the memoir and propaganda tract “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), in which he predicted a general European war that would result in “the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany.

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Tyler

A network of about 42,500 facilities in Germany and German-occupied territories were used to concentrate, confine, and kill Jews and other victims

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rhett

Marshall

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In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners.

Marshall

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Holocaust was also known by Germans as the "Final Solution."

casey

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The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.

Autumn

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The events that took place started out as simple discrimination but evolved into full-blown systematic murder of millions of Jews and others who were deemed 'inferior'

breann

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To get them to cooperate, the Nazis told the Jews they were being transported to another place for labor.

Abby : led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews

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The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.

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Tyler

Autumn

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The Holocaust was one of the largest cases of genocide in modern history,