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Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe

Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe. What events led to the Final Solution?. Relocation to the Ghettos. Prior to WWII, many Jews had already immigrated to Palestine After Kristallnacht, many Jews in Germany realized the situation would only get worse if they stay

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Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe

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  1. Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe What events led to the Final Solution?

  2. Relocation to the Ghettos • Prior to WWII, many Jews had already immigrated to Palestine • After Kristallnacht, many Jews in Germany realized the situation would only get worse if they stay • Since the future of Palestine was undecided, many Jews looked elsewhere • However, many countries began closing their doors to immigrants • Ships like the St. Louis were ordered to return to Europe • When the Nazis realized they couldn’t send Jews to other countries, they began to deport Jews into segregated ghettos, mostly in Poland • Jews would be identified and forced to wear a star

  3. The Final Solution • Hitler became impatient as Jews weren’t dying in the ghettos • The Nazis developed a plan of genocide known as “the Final Solution” • Jews along with Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Communists, and the insane were targeted as “subhumans” • SS killing squads would round up people to kill and then bury the bodies in mass graves • However, the killing squads were not quick enough for the Nazis • The Nazis would try poison gas, which they had experimented with before • Poland would become the new killing ground • Ghettos would be emptied and people would be shipped to work camps • By 1942, the work camps would become death camps • Camps had huge gas chambers that could kill up to 6,000 people a day • Auschwitz was the largest and most notorious of the camps Events that led to the Holocaust: Mien Kampf - Propaganda Against Jews - Nuremberg Laws – Kristallnacht – Deportation to Ghettos – The Final Solution

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