The Holocaust is thought to have begun on January 30, 1933 when Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor and set in motion the Nazi genocide against the Jews. The Nazi movement trafficked in hatred and anti-Semitism. Hitler blamed the Jews for all the issues that came to Germany, from communism to inflation and for the defeat of Germany in World War 1. At first, Hitler’s focus was economic. He asked Germans to boycott Jewish owned businesses and he also barred Jews from jobs in civil service. In 1935 he passed the Nuremberg Laws. These Laws denied German citizenship to Jews, banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and segregated Jews at every level of society. This was not enough for Hitler who promised for the future what he called
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During the liquidation of the ghettos, houses and synagogues were burnt down. Some Jews took what they had left of gold and silver and put it in bread to digest it. They did not want the Nazis to take what was theirs so they decided it would be better to swallow it before it got to the Germans hands. German soldiers treated it like a field day. Men with beards were lined up and forced to shave their beards off in front of everyone. Women would get their skirts ripped off and abused right in front of every person walking by. Soldiers would enter buildings and drag Jews out by their hairs. They would shoot at the ceilings, closets, beds, drawers, and floors to make sure that anyone hiding would be dead. Any person caught hiding was shot on the spot along with anyone who went against the soldiers orders. Some children would be shot in front of their parents as well as wives in front of their husbands. Those who were not killed during the liquidation would watch the ghetto burn as well as the Jews whose clothes were on fire. They would then be sent off to an extermination …show more content…
German physicians conducted experiments on oxygen deprivation, effects of altitude and hypothermia. They also tested immunization compounds for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases such as malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. The infamous Physician Josef Mengele in Auschwitz conducted experiments on Gypsies to determine how different races reacted to various diseases. At Sachsenhausen, prisoners were exposed to phosgene and mustard gas to find a possible antidote while others were used to test out new sulfa drugs. Living inmates bodies were mutilated without anesthesia. Thousands of prisoners died in excruciating pain, including over 5,000 mentally and physically disabled
During the liquidation of the ghettos, houses and synagogues were burnt down. Some Jews took what they had left of gold and silver and put it in bread to digest it. They did not want the Nazis to take what was theirs so they decided it would be better to swallow it before it got to the Germans hands. German soldiers treated it like a field day. Men with beards were lined up and forced to shave their beards off in front of everyone. Women would get their skirts ripped off and abused right in front of every person walking by. Soldiers would enter buildings and drag Jews out by their hairs. They would shoot at the ceilings, closets, beds, drawers, and floors to make sure that anyone hiding would be dead. Any person caught hiding was shot on the spot along with anyone who went against the soldiers orders. Some children would be shot in front of their parents as well as wives in front of their husbands. Those who were not killed during the liquidation would watch the ghetto burn as well as the Jews whose clothes were on fire. They would then be sent off to an extermination …show more content…
German physicians conducted experiments on oxygen deprivation, effects of altitude and hypothermia. They also tested immunization compounds for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases such as malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. The infamous Physician Josef Mengele in Auschwitz conducted experiments on Gypsies to determine how different races reacted to various diseases. At Sachsenhausen, prisoners were exposed to phosgene and mustard gas to find a possible antidote while others were used to test out new sulfa drugs. Living inmates bodies were mutilated without anesthesia. Thousands of prisoners died in excruciating pain, including over 5,000 mentally and physically disabled