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Section 3 ................................................................ 2
The Holocaust.....................................................................................................................................2
The Persecution Begins ................................................................................................................................2
Jews Targeted....................................................................................................................................................2
Kristallnacht ......................................................................................................................................................2
A Flood of Jewish Refugees .........................................................................................................................2
Hitlers Final Solution ....................................................................................................................................2
Concentration Camps.....................................................................................................................................2

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Section 3

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Promoting and
Demoting Headings

The Holocaust
The Persecution Begins
On April 7, 1933, shortly after Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all non-
Aryans to be removed from government jobs.
Jews Targeted
Although Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust, they were the center of
the Nazi targets.

Kristallnacht
November 9-10, 1938, became known as Kristallnacht1.

A Flood of Jewish Refugees
Kristallnacht (See Kristallnacht) marked a step-up in the Nazi policy of Jewish
persecution.

Hitlers Final Solution
By 1939 only about a quarter million Jews remained in Germany. Obsessed with a
desire to rid Europe of its Jews, Hitler imposed what he called the Final Solution- a
policy of genocide2.

Concentration Camps
Finally, Jews in communities not reached by the killing squads were dragged from
their homes and herded onto trains or trucks for shipment to concentration camps,
or labor camps.

1 Know as Night of Broken Glass
2 The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population.

Footnotes

Index
Index

Germany..........................................................2
Hitler............................................................1, 2
Holocaust ...................................................1, 2

Jews.............................................................. 1, 2
Kristallnacht............................................. 1, 2
Persecution............................................... 1, 2