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The Holocaust was the systematic murder of around 12 million people by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933 and almost immediately began persecuting Jews and others they deemed inferior. In 1941, after invading Poland and the Soviet Union, Hitler decided on the "Final Solution" to murder all Jews. The Final Solution was carried out by the SS and SD security forces through concentration camps, where prisoners were worked to death or killed in gas chambers. Around 6 million Jewish people were murdered in Nazi extermination camps like Auschwitz, where over 1 million died in gas chambers alone.

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Overview of the Holocaust Events

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of around 12 million people by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933 and almost immediately began persecuting Jews and others they deemed inferior. In 1941, after invading Poland and the Soviet Union, Hitler decided on the "Final Solution" to murder all Jews. The Final Solution was carried out by the SS and SD security forces through concentration camps, where prisoners were worked to death or killed in gas chambers. Around 6 million Jewish people were murdered in Nazi extermination camps like Auschwitz, where over 1 million died in gas chambers alone.

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Trenton Bostick

August 30, 2015


Professor Wertz-Orbaugh

Holocaust
The Holocaust was the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany to exterminate the
Jews and other people that they considered to be inferior. Also about 12,000,000 people were
murdered because of being classified as Jews. Furthermore murders were done by every means
imaginable but most of the victims perished as a result of shooting, starvation, disease, and
poison gas. Others were tortured to death or died in horrible medical experiments.

Hitler took power in Germany in 1933 and almost immediately began the chain of events that led
to the Holocaust. This first phase was the persecution of Jews in Germany and the other countries
invaded by Hitler. It only lasted until 1941 but throughout this period, while Hitler built his
power, Jews were persecuted and brutalized but there was no organized effort to methodically
murder them.

In late 1939 Hitler invaded Poland, beginning the Second World War. In mid-1941 Hitler invaded
the Soviet Union. In return after invading those few countries Hitler also decided that there
should be a final solution to the Jewish question.

The final Solution was to murder the Jews and also was mainly carried out by a military group
known as the SS and a security service known as the SD. They arrested Jews and other victims,
and also they ran the concentration camps and organized the murder squads.

During the first part of extermination 1,500,000 Jews and other people were murdered by
military groups which rounded them up and shot them. Increasingly the importance changed to
focus camps, where the prisoners were worked to death as slave laborers, and extermination
camps, where they were murdered in the gas chambers. The most famous of these was
Auschwitz, which was both a labor camp and an extermination camp. About 1,300,000 people
perished at Auschwitz; approximately 1,000,000 of those died in the gas chambers.

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