Before The Holocaust, Nazi Revolution In Germany

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This site has a time line of World War II from 1933 – 1945. The site has info titled: Before The Holocaust, Nazi Revolution in Germany, Beginning of the War, Toward the “final Solution”, Holocaust Death Camps, And the Aftermath & Lasting Impact of the Holocaust. The Very first official concentration camp open at Dachau Germany on March 1933, and many of the fir prisoners of the camp were Communists. On Fall of 1939, German Nazi officials selected about 70,000 Germans who had mental illness or disabilities to be gasses to death, which was called the “Euthanasia Program”. Hitler put an end to the Euthanasia Program on August 1941, however the killings of disabled people did continue in secrecy, and by 1945 some 275,000 deemed handicapped from

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