Holocaust

THE HOLOCAUST

The systematic removal of all "undesirables"

What did Hitler believe?

Hitler and many of the NAZIs believed that some races were better than others, and in order to make a perfect society, they needed to get rid of who they believed were the worst kinds of people

15,003,000

By genocide, the murder of hostages, reprisal raids, forced labor, "euthanasia," starvation, exposure, medical experiments, and terror bombing, and in the concentration and death camps, the Nazis murdered

NAZI Racial Theory

The Aryan Master Race conceived by Adolf Hitler and the other Nazis graded humans on a scale of pure Aryans to non-Aryans (who were viewed as subhumans). At the top of the scale of pure Aryans were Germans and other Germanic and Northern European peoples, including the Dutch, Scandinavians, and the English. Latins were held to be somewhat inferior, but were tolerated; and the French were thought to have a suitable admixture of Germanic blood. .

Aryan Germans were the purest humans in the eyes of many NAZIs

Concentration Camps 1939

What were they?

The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. The Storm Troopers (SA) and the police established concentration camps to handle the masses of people arrested as alleged political opponents of the regime.

In 1939

The only 7 prison camps, called "Concentration Camps" by the Germans.

• Dachau
• Sachsenhausen
• Buchenwald
• Neuengamme
• Flossenbürg
• Mauthausen
• Ravensbrück

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BY 1944

9 COUNTRIES

Prisoners

According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners registered in the concentration camps in January 1945.

1200 Camps

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