Kristallnacht: Single Concentration Camps

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Hitler was a German man who eventually started ruling over Germany. He started a revolution that eventually failed. When he started to rule, he changed rules “almost overnight.” He no longer gave people the right to freedom of speech and freedom of press. At his constitution camps, two people out of 70 were killed every day.
Hitler came to rule in 1933. He slowly made this way up to each rank. First, he started going around and talking to low ranks, and eventually kept talking to higher and higher ranks until he got to be the president. Once he got to be the president, he changed so many things. For one, he started killing thousands of people. He wouldn't let anyone have an opinion on him. If they had a bad opinion on him, he would kill them.
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It was located in Dachau, Germany. Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies were taken to these camps and eventually killed. On November 9, 1935, the Nazi’s went around vandalizing Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues. This night became known as Kristallnacht- the night of broken glass. Some terrorists are just like Hitler. That is why we are taking extra precautions so something like this never happens again. Some fun facts about Hitler are that he never visited a single concentration camp. He had only seen them when they were being built. The jews were just thrown in there. Hitler’s father changed his last name in 1877. His real name was Adolf Schicklgruber and his dad changed it to Hitler. Hitler was also a vegetarian. He was against animal testing too. Once, he put a person in jail for animal testing. Hitler's favorite actor, Dutch Johannes Heesters, died in 2011.
Hitler made many more concentration camps after he got more and more jews. Some of the names of these camps are Belzec, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, and many more. Hitler's biggest concentration camp was Auschwitz-Birkenau. There were labor camps and gas chambers at this

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