The Holocaust by Hannah Booms https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o en-us 2018-04-17 15:21:05 UTC 2018-04-23 15:25:33 UTC hello@padlet.com What is it? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627110 The Holocaust was a mass murder of some 6 million European Jews. Besides the Jewish population, some members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals were also sent to concentration camps, and were part of the mass murder.The first concentration camp opened in March of 1933, and the revolution ended in 1945.

]]> 2018-04-17 15:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627110 Who is Adolf Hitler? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627255 Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. During his reign as dictator, he managed to murder at  least 11 million people.]]> 2018-04-17 15:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627255 Concentration camps 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627529 Beginning in 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps, starting with those people viewed as the least useful: the sick, old, the weak and the very young. As they arrived at the camps, they were separated into 2 groups. The groups were those capable of working and those who weren't. Workers were eventually worked to their deaths, while non workers were sent directly to gas chambers.]]> 2018-04-17 15:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627529 Why Jewish people? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627953 Hitler believed Jewish people were weak to mankind. He had a 10 month jail sentence in which he wrote the book Mein Kampf, or My Struggle. In this book contained many anti-Jewish passages and theories about the superiority of the German race. Adolf also believed that the Jewish population was a cause in losing WWI. In his mind, Jews were and inferior race that was poisoning Germany and did not belong in the community.]]> 2018-04-17 15:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252627953 Death toll 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252628295 During the war, Adolf Hitler managed to mass murder 11 million people. 6 million of those killed were Jewish.]]> 2018-04-17 15:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252628295 What was Hitler's ultimate goal in WWII? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252629461 Hitler had two goals in World War II. One being German superiority, and the other being to deplete as much of the Jewish population as possible.]]> 2018-04-17 15:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252629461 What is the “Final Solution”? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252632581 The final solution is the Nazi policy of exterminating the Jewish population.  Mobile killing units called Einsatzgruppen would murder more than 500,000 Soviet Jews and others (by shooting) over the course of the German occupation. Since June 1941, experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz, near Krakow. After using gas in the war against the Soviet Union, Germany soon placed a big order with a German pest-control firm for more of it. This was an indicator of the up coming Holocaust.]]> 2018-04-17 15:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252632581 Who were the Nazis and Gestapo? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252632759 Nazis were people who believed in the superiority of Germans, and were racist against specific groups of people. The Gestapo were secret German police who believed in Nazism.]]> 2018-04-17 15:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/252632759 How did it end? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/253038838 World War 2 ended about a week after Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.]]> 2018-04-18 15:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/253038838 The role of Propaganda 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/253039417 Propaganda was very influential during WWII. Germany tried to sway people into thinking they were doing what was right.]]> 2018-04-18 15:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/253039417 How was literature changed? 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/253041514 People often wrote about the hardships of the war, and the difficulties they suffered. Many wrote about the Jews and the terrible conditions they had to survive in.]]> 2018-04-18 15:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/253041514 Sources 211015 https://padlet.com/211015/reri5eeugp1o/wish/253824975      "THE HOLOCAUST." History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2018, https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust. Accessed 19 Apr. 2018.

"Adolf Hitler Biography." Biography.com website, A&E Television Networks, 5 Aug. 2017, https://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144. Accessed 18 Apr. 2018.

"The Killing Machine." Holocaust, Projetaladin.org , 2009, www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/history-of-the-holocaust-shoah/the-killing-machine/concentration-camps.html. Accessed 19 Apr. 2018.

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