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In 1933 Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany. He wanted to wipe out the Jewish population and conquer the world. At this time there were about three million Jews living in Germany. The Nazi's believed that the Germans were superior. They mistakenly saw Jews as a specific race, therefore claiming them to be inferior and a prime target for killing. "Holocaust" is a word that means widespread destruction. Hitler's hatred for the Jews and his need for total power definitely created widespread destruction in Germany. The Holocaust first started out as the persecution of the Jews in Germany and other places ruled by Hitler in 1933. There were many laws and restrictions imposed by the Nazis that robbed the Jews of their rights and their possessions, leaving them with nothing. Jews could not own property or businesses. They could not attend public school or go to college. The Jewish people could not go to theaters, cinemas or vacation resorts. They could not even walk in some parts of Germany. To further rid Germany of this "inferior" race, the Nazi's subjected 350,000 people to a type of radiation that would prevent them from having children. Then, suddenly on the night of November 9th 19
When the Allied forces were closing in on Germany, SS troops decided to evacuate the concentration camps. They tried to cover up any evidence of there ever being a concentration camp in their area. They sent the prisoners on "Death Marches." Most of the prisoners didn't survive. The Holocaust was an Era of death and devastation. Adloff Hitler and his SS officers convinced the people of Germany to trust them. The SS were not only able to discriminate against the Jews and a few other groups of people, but they tortured and killed them in numbers that no one could imagine. It took years before the total devastation was understood. Prisoners at concentration camps were worked to death as slave laborers and were murdered in gas chambers. Other methods of killing the prisoners consisted of beatings, hangings, and using prisoners for medical experiments. Much of what went on in the concentration camps was kept secret to deceive the victims and to avoid resistance. The six main concentration camp sites were Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. During the years of 1933 and 1939 half of the Jewish population and two thirds of the Austrian Jews fled from the Nazis. They emigrated to the U.S., Latin America, China, and Palestine. The others that stayed in Germany and Austria were unwilling to uproot themselves from their homeland. There were many other kinds of people be
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