HOLOCAUST Happen after WW1 when Adolf Hitler rose again to power in hatred for Jews and Hitler and blamed Jews for troubles to gain more power and created he's own police force SS built large outdoor prison camps to keep a large group of people in one place started to banned Jews form jobs and Jewish kids from schools .On November 9/1938 violence of attacks riots led by SS officers acting on specific orders. Many wore regular clothes to blend in with the crowd to destroy
Jewish-owned shops and burn synagogues, and murder 90 Jews Another 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps. that night was called Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. Many Jews had already left Germany. After Kristallnacht, more and more tried to escape They sought safety in other countries,
at embassies, and at the borders. Most were turned away. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded
Poland, that touching off World War II Within a year, most of Europe was under German control. This brought the fates of millions more
Jews into the hands of the Nazis. Including those who thought they had escaped, Jews were stripped of their property and forced into ghettos, walled-off sections of cities. Conditions were extremely crowded, with little food and almost no medicine. From there, they were shipped off to a vast networks of concentration camps. The Nazis now had hundreds of these
prisons across Europe. Prisoners spent their days doing hard
labor They died by the thousands from torture, disease, and starvation. Well, for the Nazis, none of this went far enough. So Hitler's administration devised a
final solution: Explanation: total extermination. Families were rounded up and shot by the thousands. And in late 1941, the Nazis began to build death camps with gas chambers. These were airtight rooms that were filled with deadly poisonous gas. Prisoners were told they were showers, but the showerheads poured gas, not water. By the end of the war, the Nazis had killed 6 million Jews, plus 5 million others. When the Allies won the war, the camps
were liberated. and piles of bodies shocked the world. People struggled to comprehend the
scale of the Nazis' crimes. Party leaders were prosecuted at a special court in the German city of Nuremberg. Accusing them of murder didn't seem big enough to fit their crimes. So they were charged with a new category of offense:" crimes against humanity." The newly-formed United Nations took steps to prevent another Holocaust. Its countries agreed to work together
to root out and punish genocide.
