2. The Nazi gained total power on Germany in 1933.
3. The beginning of World War II was when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939.
4. Polish people were also discriminated.
5. Western European Jews and Polish were deported to ghettos.
6. Ghettos was a place with overcrowded people, inadequate food, and was very unsanitary.
7. June 1941, German invaded SS and police units which served as massive killing places.
8. By Autumn, SS and police introduced mobile gas vans.
9. The gas vans killed those within with deadly carbon monoxide gas.
10. The Nazi killed approximately six million Jews!
11. The word "Holocaust" comes from the Greek meaning "sacrifice by fire".
12. The Nazi believed they were he superior race, an the Jews were a major threat.
13. Gypsies, disabled, Slavic, Russians, homosexuals, and many other races were also killed.
14. At the end of World War II, two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe was wiped out.
15. During World War II, ghettos were city districts.
16. Ghettos isolated Jews from non-Jews and forced Jews to live in miserable conditions.
17. Germans established the first ghetto in in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939.
18. The Germans actually destroyed the ghettos systemically.
19. Some ghettos lasted days,months, and rarely years.
20. There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos.
21. The largest ghetto was located in Poland and was called Warsaw ghetto.
22. About 400,000 Jew were crowded in Warsaw which was 1.3 square miles.
23. Germans ordered Jews to wear similar badges or armbands in order to identify them.
24. Germans did not hesitate to kill Jew policeman when they filed to carry out orders.
25. Ghetto resident often did illegal activities such as stealing food, medicine, and other stuff.
26. Germans forbade any type of schooling or constant schooling.
27. Germans considered any type of social gathering a "security threat".
28. Pogrom is a Russian word, it means "to demolish violently".
29. The Nazis experimented with poison gas in late 1939 with the killing of mental patients.
30. Nazis thought people with mental or physical disability were unworthy of life.
31. Germany took over Poland in Autumn 1939 ; forced Jew and Polish men to do unpaid labor.
32. The Nazis pursued this policy called,"annihilation through work".
33. Prisoners were literally worked to death.
34. They worked under awful conditions that would lead to illness, death, and injury!
35. More than one million of the victims were children.
36. Jewish and non-Jewish killed when they arrived in killing centers.
37. Children were killed right after they are born or in institutions.
38. Some children that lived in ghettos and camps survived because prisoners hid them.
39. The word ghetto comes from Venice meaning Jewish quarter.
40. Children, usually over 2, were used for medical experiments!
41. They were often killed on reprisal operations and so-called anti-partisan operations.
42. German authority considered most of the younger ghetto children as "useless eaters".
43. Romanis are also known as Gypsies
44. The Soviet Union were ordered to kidnap children that could be "Germanized"
45. Children with blue eyes, blond hair, or fair skin had the opportunity.
46. Female prisoners that had sexual relationships with a German were forced to abort.
47. They had to abort because they believed the child did not have enough German blood in it.
48. Children in youth movements later participated in underground resistance activities.
49. Jewish people were scared going back home because of hatred that existed after the war.
50. Genocide is a group of race that want to completely annihilated another group of race.
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