The Holocaust

A short timeline...

• January 30th, 1933- Hitler comes to power and becomes the Chancellor with the Enabling Act of 1933. This allowed him complete and total control
• September 15th, 1935- Nuremburg Laws passed. These laws severely limited Jewish civil rights and business abilities
• September 1st, 1939- Germany invades Poland, starting World War II. 
• 1940- Nazis begin constructing ghettos for the Jews of Poland. Jews were forcibly removed from their homes and put in these ghettos
• June 1941- Germany invades Russia
• "Final Solution" begins with the Einsatzgruppen, four mobile commando teams that operated in Russia, eastern Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. They lined up Jews and shot them, estimating around 1.3 million killed by 1942
• January 20th, 1942- Wannsee Conference begins the full-scale extermination of Jews
• Spring of 1942- 6 killing-camps had been established in Polan
• July 1944- Maidanek camp liberated by Russians
• April 1945- Dachau liberated by American
  
  Anti-Semitism- This is the believe that all Jewish peoples are inferior and are not as worthy to live in our world as are other peoples
  Concentration camp- Camps set up for the imprisonment and mistreatment of enemies of the Nazis, mainly Jews
  Deportation- Jews were forcibly removed from their homes and towns to be moved into ghettos and concentration camps
  Genocide- the systematic killing of an entire race
  Ghetto- Places many Jews were forced to live in before concentration camps. Extremely cramped conditions, and food was usually scarce
  Holocaust- Period between 1933-1945 when Nazis systematically killed 6 million Jews because they felt they were inferior
  Kristallnacht- "Night of broken glass." On November 9,10, 1938 Nazis inspired attacks nation-wide against Jews. Jewish stores and homes were looted and burned. 91 Jews were killed
  
  A number of commandments were broken by Nazis in the Holocaust. 
• Do not make any idols before me; During the time of the Holocaust, Hitler became something of a demi-god to the Nazi people. He was practically worshipped by the Nazis and Nazi collaborators and it can clearly be seen that his morals were placed above that of our own God.
• Do not murder; this commandment is clearly broken. Over 12 million people died as a result of German aggression, around 6 million Jewish. So many lives wasted over a pointless ideal
• Do not steal; not only did Nazis steal the lives of millions of people, they stole possessions as well. After Jews had been deported from their areas, Nazis would come in and clean up any remaining possessions they had for themselves.