Jewish Persecution Nazi persecution 1941-1945

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Jewish Persecution Nazi persecution

1941-1945

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The Holocaust the genocide of approximately six

million European Jews during World War II, a program of

systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany…

2/3 of entire European Jewish

population died

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The Nuremberg Lawsanti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany

introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an

official ideology incorporating scientific racism and anti-

Semitism. There was a rapid growth in German legislation

directed at Jews.

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Moved by the understanding that the purity of German blood is essential to the further existence of the German

people, and inspired by the uncompromising determination to

safeguard the future of the German nation, the Reichstag has unanimously resolved upon the following law, which

is promulgated herewith:

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Section 1 Marriages between Jews and citizens

of German or kindred blood are forbidden.

Marriages concluded in defiance of this law are void, even if, for the

purpose of evading this law, they were concluded abroad.

Proceedings for annulment may be initiated only by the Public Prosecutor.

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Section 2 Extramarital sexual intercourse

between Jews and subjects of the state of Germany or related blood

is forbidden.

Section 3 Jews will not be permitted to

employ female citizens under the age of 45, of German or kindred

blood, as domestic workers.

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Section 4 Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or

the national colors.On the other hand they are

permitted to display the Jewish colors. The exercise of this

right is protected by the State.

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Section 51.A person who acts contrary to the

prohibition of Section 1 will be punished with hard labor.

2.A person who acts contrary to the prohibition of Section 2 will be

punished with imprisonment or with hard labor.

3.A person who acts contrary to the provisions of Sections 3 or 4

will be punished with imprisonment up to a year and with a fine, or with one of these

penalties.

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People defined as Jews were barred from employment as

lawyers, doctors or journalists. Jews were prohibited from using state hospitals and could not be

educated by the state past the age of 14. Public parks, libraries and

beaches were closed to Jews. War memorials were to have Jewish

names expunged. Even the lottery could not award winnings to Jews.

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The Yellow Badgea cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer

garments in order to mark them as Jews in public. It is intended to be a badge of shame associated with

anti-Semitism.

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Extermination Camps The formal mass-killing method at an extermination camp was poison gas…

besides gas chambers, the camp guards continued killing prisoners via

mass shooting, starvation, torture, etc.

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Operationally, there were three types of death camps:

(1) Aktion Reinhardt extermination camps: Treblinka, Sobibór, Belzec, where prisoners were promptly killed upon arrival. Initially, the camps

used carbon monoxide gas chambers; at first, the corpses were buried, but then incinerated atop

pyres. Later, gas chambers and crematoria were built in Treblinka and Belzec; Zyklon-B was used

in Belzec.

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(2) Concentration–extermination camps where some prisoners were selected for slave labor, instead of immediate death; they were kept alive as camp inmates, available to work wherever the Nazis required. These camps — including

Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Jasenovac — later were retrofitted with Zyklon-B gas

chambers and crematoria (burning them alive), remaining operational until war's

end in 1945

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Minor extermination camps such as Sajmiste in Serbia, Maly Trostenets in the USSR, Janowska, in Poland, and

Gornija Rijeka, initially operated as prisons and transit camps, then as

extermination camps late in the war.

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The Final Solution (German: Die Endlösung) was Nazi Germany's plan

and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during

World War II

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Heinrich Luitpold HimmlerHimmler was the main architect of the Holocaust, using elements of mysticism and a fanatical belief in the racist Nazi ideology to justify the murder of millions of victims. He coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses

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Reinhardt Tristan Eugen HeydrichAlthough ultimate

responsibility for the Holocaust falls on Adolf

Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, Heydrich was

one of the main architects of the Holocaust during

the early years of the war; only answering to, and

taking orders from Hitler and Himmler in all matters

that pertained to the deportation,

imprisonment, and extermination of Jews.

"Under suitable direction, the Jews should be brought to the East in the course of the Final Solution, for use as labor. In large labor gangs, with the sexes separated, the Jews capable of work will be transported to those areas and set to road-building, in the course of which, without doubt, a large part of them ("ein großteil") will fall away through natural losses. The surviving remnant, surely those with the greatest powers of resistance, will be given special treatment, since, if freed, they would constitute the germinal cell for the re-creation of Jewry.“ – Heydrich

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Karl Adolf Eichmann 1. one of the major

organizers of the Holocaust

2. He carried out the plans set forth in the Wannsee Conference, which was were the Final Solution came about.

3. Responsible for the deportation of Jews to ghettos in Warsaw Poland.

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Josef Rudolf Mengele “Angel of Death”1. research on heredity, using inmates for human

experimentation. He was particularly interested in identical twins.

2. Mengele's experiments also included attempts to take one twin's eyeballs and attach them to the back of the other twin's head, changing eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, various amputations of limbs, and other surgeries

3. two Romani children were sewn together to create conjoined twins

4. Once, I witnessed a stomach operation — Mengele was removing pieces from the stomach, but without any anaesthetic. Another time, it was a heart that was removed, again without anesthesia (Children of Flames)

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Human Experiments 1. bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration, and bone transplantation

from one person to another without anesthetics 2. The Luftwaffe conducted experiments with the intent of discovering

means to prevent and treat hypothermia.3. investigate the most effective treatment of wounds caused by

mustard gas4. experiments to investigate the effectiveness of sulfonamide, a

synthetic antimicrobial agent5. Experiments with poison

6. test the effect of various pharmaceutical preparations on phosphorus burns. These burns were inflicted on prisoners using phosphorus

material extracted from incendiary bombs.7. High altitude experiments - low-pressure chamber containing these

prisoners was used to simulate conditions at altitudes of up to 20,000 m (66,000 ft