Holocaust story book by Brooke Donnelly https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2018-03-26 17:31:08 UTC 2023-04-22 09:23:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Even before Nazi's were in power many Germans had made known their Anti-Semitism, placing signs prohibiting Jews from entering certain businesses or areas. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246613641 2018-03-27 17:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246613641 As early as 1919 Hitler described the Jews as an evil race, struggling for world domination in his book "Mein Kampf". They categorized Jews as Untermenschen or "subhumans". brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246621392 2018-03-27 17:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246621392 On April 1, 1933 the first assault on Jews began with a boycott of Jewish businesses. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246625870 2018-03-27 17:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246625870 On January 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the head of coalition government. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246728630 2018-03-28 00:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246728630 Jews were then dismissed from the civil service, and restricted from attending German schools under a government imposed quota. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246729419 2018-03-28 00:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246729419 On May 10, 1933 thousands of Nazi students as well as teachers stormed university libraries and book stores in 30 cities throughout Germany in order to remove books written by non-Aryans along with those that opposed Nazi views. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246730494 2018-03-28 01:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246730494 By the late 1930's many Jews seeked refuge, those who could obtain visas traveled to the United States, while others looked towards neighboring Countries. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246735812 2018-03-28 01:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/246735812 At the annual Nazi Party in Nurnberg on September 15, 1935 the Nunberg laws were established. While they did not define a Jew or Aryan, they did divide them, as well as limit Jews. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247108521 2018-03-29 00:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247108521 Later in November the bureaucracy defined them into two basic categories. Jews are those who have at least three Jewish grandparents, and Mishlinge or "mixed breeds" that have one or two Jewish grandparents. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247112654 2018-03-29 00:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247112654 Persecution of Jews between 1933-1938 in Germany. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247117292 2018-03-29 01:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247117292 On May 20, 1933 the SS opened the Dachua concentration camp outside of Munich. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247119260 2018-03-29 01:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247119260 On November 9, 1938 and following the next 48 hours anti-Jew rioters burned and damaged more than 1,000 Jewish synagogues, and ransacked 7,500 Jewish businesses. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247239650 2018-03-29 13:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247239650 Police and Firemen stood by not to protect the synagogues, but to make sure the flames did not spread to the adjacent "Aryan" property. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247241725 2018-03-29 13:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247241725 Between 1933 and 1945 Nazi Germany opened some 40,000 incarceration cites, some used for force labor, and others for detention of enemies, or mass murder. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247628092 2018-03-31 21:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247628092 Around 30,000 Jewish men between the ages of 16 to 60 were arrested and brought to concentration camps, incarcerated for a brief period of time. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247628658 2018-03-31 21:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247628658 The first to be affected by these concentration camps were not Jewish. Political dissidents, trade unionists, and Social Democrats were among the first to be incarcerated in concentration camps. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247629326 2018-03-31 21:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247629326 In 1939 the Nazis initiated the T-4 program, staged as a "euthanasia" program for the physically disabled or mentally disturbed, which established the use of gas chambers and mass crematoria. Around 70,000 Germans deemed mentally ill had been gassed to death by the chambers, and with severe push from prominent religious leaders Hitler put an end to the program in 1941. The killings of the disabled continued in secrecy and by 1945 some 275,000 disabled from all over Europe had been killed. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247629644 2018-03-31 21:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247629644 In September of 1939 the Germany army invaded Poland, occupying the Western area by October. The German police forced tens of thousands of Polish Jews out of their homes and into ghettos, giving their confiscated properties to ethnic Germans, Germans from the Reich, or Polish gentiles. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247633293 2018-03-31 23:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247633293 The Jewish ghettos in Poland functioned like captive city-states. They were governed by Jewish councils and enclosed by high walls and barbed wire fences. With widespread unemployment, poverty, and hunger, the overpopulated ghettos became breeding ground for diseases. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247633606 2018-03-31 23:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247633606 In the Spring and Summer of 1940, Hitler's empire was expanded in Europe, conquering Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. By 1941 Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of Gypsies were transported to the Polish ghettos. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247634309 2018-04-01 00:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247634309 June 1941 marked a new level of brutality as Einsatzgruppen or mobile killing units would murder more than 500,000 Soviet Jews and others, over the course of Germany's involvement in World War II. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247634526 2018-04-01 00:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247634526 Beginning in September of 1941 every Jew in German territory was marked with a yellow star making them open targets. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247635032 2018-04-01 00:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247635032 At the same time experiments with mass killing had been ongoing at the camp of Auschwitz. That August, 500 officials gassed 500 Soviet POW's to death with the pesticide Zyklon-B. The SS soon placed a huge order for the gas with a German pest-control firm. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247635109 2018-04-01 00:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247635109 In late 1941 the Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps, starting with those viewed as least useful. The first mass gassing occurred on March 17, 1942 at the camp of Belzvec, near Lublin, and five more mass killing centers were built over camps in occupied Poland. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247635697 2018-04-01 00:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247635697 By the spring of 1945 Germany's Nazism was falling, as Goering and Himmler were both seeking to take power over Hitler. In Hitler's last political statement on April 29, he continued to blame the war on “International Jewry and its helpers” . The following day he committed suicide. Germany's formal surrender from war came nearly a week later on May 8, 1945. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247636826 2018-04-01 01:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247636826 As Soviet troops approach the Auschwitz camp, the SS units evacuated the camp by marching prisoners on foot toward the interior of the German Reich. Beginning in the fall of 1944 to January of 1945 the "death marches" resulted in the death of some 250,000 to 375,000 people. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247637108 2018-04-01 01:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247637108 The Holocaust was a systematic oppression of people. It killed up to 6 million Jews, around 7 million Soviet civilians, up to 250,000 people with disabilities, 196,000–220,000 Roma (Gypsies), around 1,900 Jehovah's Witnesses, and at least 70,000 repeat criminal offenders or asocials. brookedonnelly19 https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247637362 2018-04-01 01:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/brookedonnelly19/d9tlgx0hc67t/wish/247637362