A Brief History of the Holocaust 1941 Germany attacks Soviet Union Jews throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos Death Squads are formed to kill Jews (shooting and hand grenades) throughout Eastern Europe. By December 1941, 300,000 people were killed by these squads alone.
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A Brief History of the Holocaust 1941 Germany attacks Soviet Union Jews throughout Western Europe are
forced into ghettos Death Squads are formed to kill Jews
(shooting and hand grenades) throughout Eastern Europe. By December 1941, 300,000 people were killed by these squads alone.
A Brief History of the Holocaust 1942 Nazis discuss the “Final Solution” –
their plan to exterminate all the Jews in Europe.
Jews are forbidden to subscribe to newspapers, keep pets, own bicycles, buy meat or eggs, use public transport, or attend school
Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps
A Brief History of the Holocaust 1943 By February, about 80%
of Jews who died in the Holocaust had been murdered. Mostly by gas chambers in Extermination Camps, otherwise by starvation or literally worked to death.
The Book Thief The Book Thief is set in Munich, which is in the
south of Germany. Near Munich is the Dachau Concentration Camp The first labour camp opened by the Nazis. The camp held over 200,000 prisoners. 25,613 people are believed to have died in
Dachau due to disease, malnutrition and suicide (+ another 10,000 in subcamps)
The prisoners were also used for medical experiments.
Dachau was liberated on 29 April, 1945 by the US Army, who also found piles of corpses.
“protection squad”, was a major Nazi organisation that was created as Hitler’s personal guard and then grew to carry out Hitler’s racist ideology. They were primarily responsible for ruling Germany by fear and the extermination of the Jews by capturing, enslaving and murdering them on mass.
Other Information Hitler Youth – a military youth organisation that recruited young
people to train them in Nazi ideals and military practices.
By 1940, it had 8,000,000 members By 1943, the Nazi Party were
recruiting the Hitler youth as manpower as they began to struggle
during the war. 12 year olds were being recruited by