The Holocaust Is the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi system during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwit. EQ: (How does Hitler slowly removes freedom not only from the Jews but for himself)?

Jews lived in every country of Europe. 9 million jews lived in these countries that were being watched by the Germans during WW2. In 1933the largest Jewish population was in eastern Europe. Many lived in towns or villages called shtetls. They spoke their own language. Yaddish it was a mix between German and Hebrew. They read Yaddish books and attended Yaddish theater and movies. You could find jews in all Walks of life as farmers, tailors, seamstresses, factory hands, accountant, doctors, teachers, and small-business owners. Some families were poor while others were more wealthy.Lots of kids ended their career to work in craft and trade. Other took their education further to university levels. By the 1930's with the rise of Nazi power in Germany, they all became victims, and their lives were forever changed.

The Nazi used propaganda campaigns (the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc) to promote their fury hatred of Jews.The Nazi wanted to portray the Jews as sub-humans. (inferior beings interested primarily in their own communism). They built upon all the bad lies of the Jewish race. Antisemitism can be institutional, physical or verbal.

Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He started World War II and oversaw tyrant policies that resulted in millions of deaths. Born in Austria in 1889, Adolf Hitler rose to power in German politics as leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi Party. Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as dictator from 1934 to 1945. His policies precipitated World War II and the Holocaust.

During the early 1930s, at the time of the Nazi rise to power, Germany was experiencing great economic and social hardship. Their country had to pay pretty much everything they had. All their benefits had to go the Allies for losing WWI. They had to obey the Treaty of Versailles. Which means they had to give up land and could no longer have a large army. They had to experience harsh inflation, economic weakness, and great unemployment. This took effect after Hitler was in power. They introduced this as Anti- Jewish Decrees, which eliminated all Jewish rights.

Jews were recklessly tortured and humiliated. Many members of the Germany public were just bystanders. They were content with other Nazi police officers, which improved in the tragic financial and economic conditions in Germany. People were also afraid to speak put because they were scared of the brutality of the Nazi. All Jews and non-Aryans were banned from Germany society. They could no longer hold government jobs, own property or run their own businesses. Jews were prohibited to walk into many stores, restaurants. Jews had to be identified with a Star of David. (Danish Jews, however, did not have to wear the Star) and had to have a J on their passports. Jews had to give up jewelry, food, etc.Jews had reduced rations on their cards.

As medieval restrictions on Jewish residence spread across Italy and beyond to central and western Europe, the word "ghetto" followed,( referring to the section of the city where Jews were forced to live). The Nazis' use of the medieval concept of ghettos to isolate Jews during World War II. During World War II, the Nazis established more than 400 ghettos in order to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish population and from neighboring Jewish communities. Approximately 450,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles that was the Warsaw ghetto. the majority of the apartments in the Warsaw ghetto were unheated during winter, and the Nazis determined that the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto could survive on an official food allocation of 300 calories per day.

As medieval restrictions on Jewish residence spread across Italy and beyond to central and western Europe, the word "ghetto" followed,( referring to the section of the city where Jews were forced to live). The Nazis' use of the medieval concept of ghettos to isolate Jews during World War II. During World War II, the Nazis established more than 400 ghettos in order to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish population and from neighboring Jewish communities. Approximately 450,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles that was the Warsaw ghetto. the majority of the apartments in the Warsaw ghetto were unheated during winter, and the Nazis determined that the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto could survive on an official food allocation of 300 calories per day.

A camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as authority in January 1933 in the weeks after the Nazis came to power. German authorities established camps all over Germany on an provisional basis to handle the masses of people arrested as alleged subversives. The SS established larger camps in Oranienburg. Thousands of "security suspects" released from German prisons in the autumn of 1942 were sent to concentration camps and literally worked to death.

The doctors didn't make anything better.They conducted criminal medical experiments on prisoners and committed other acts that violated medical ethics. Here is an example of a bad doctor.

Carl Clauberg experimented with sterilization in the camp. Part of Block No. 10 in the Main Camp was put at his disposal. Several hundred Jewish women from various countries lived in two large rooms on the second floor of the building. Clauberg developed a method of non-surgical mass sterilization that consisted of introducing into the female reproductive organs a specially prepared chemical irritant that produced sever inflammation. Within several weeks, the fallopian tubes grew shut and were blocked. Clauberg's experiments killed some of his subjects, and others were put to death so that autopsies could be performed.
June 1943, he wrote to Himmler
"X-ray sterilization" equipment was set up for Schumann in one of the barracks at Birkenau. Every so often, several dozen Jewish men and women prisoners were brought in. The sterilization experiments consisted of exposing the women's ovaries and the men's testes to X-rays. Schumann applied various intensities at various intervals in his search for the optimal dose of radiation. The exposure to radiation produced severe burns on the belly, groin, and buttocks areas of the subjects, and festering sores that were resistant to healing. Many subjects died from complications. The results of the X-ray sterilization experiments were unsatisfactory.

Jews were forced in cattle-cars from anywhere to 2-7 days without food, water, etc. The train conditions are sub-human. They were corralled into dark and damp box cars like cattle. There was no washrooms, water or air. They looked outside through small holes in the siding of the train. They could smell the dead bodies getting burned. they could see all the smoke in the sky. They would get covered in ashes from the dead bodies. The latter packed with up to 150 deportees, although 50 was the number proposed by the SS regulations. A small barred window provided irregular ventilation, which oftentimes resulted in multiple deaths from either suffocation or the exposure to the elements.
For the Jews walking: On May 11, 1945, German civilians were forced to walk past the bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by German SS troops in a 300-mile march across Czechoslovakia. The most scandalous of the death marches took place in January 1945, when the Soviet army advanced on occupied Poland. Nine days before the Soviets arrived at the death camp at Auschwitz, the SS marched nearly 60,000 prisoners out of the camp toward Wodzislaw Slaski 35 miles away, where they were put on freight trains to other camps. Approximately 15,000 prisoners died on the way.

The Jews would walk and ride for days and weeks. With no food, water, breaks, sleep, or energy many Jews lost their lives walking and riding in the carts. They'd walk a 300-mile walk to get to concentration camps. The rides would last several days and they were cramped with body orders and people they didn't know. This is were most Jewish people gave up.

Eva Anna Paula Hitler was Hilters wife for less than 40 hours. She met Hitler when she was 17. She was working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer, and began seeing him often. She tried killing herself twice while they were together. In 1936 she became apart of his house hold and lived a sheltered lifestyle. As Red Army troops fought their way into the neighborhood on April 29, 1945, she married him when she was 33 and he was 56. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff.

Not only did Hitler remove freedom from the Jews but he also removed it from his wife and his self. Less than 40 hours later, they committed suicide together in a sitting room of the bunker, she by biting into a capsule of cyanide. The German public was unaware of Braun's relationship with Hitler until after their deaths. The both of them poisoned and shot their selves. (He killed his dog too) His body was later discovered and identified by the Soviets before being rushed back to Russia. He wanted to make sure the Soviets would not take him a live and show him caged as an evil monster! This occurred April 30, 1945. A German court finally officially declared Hitler dead, but not until 1956.