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HOLOCAUST

Holocaust
• The Holocaust was the
mass murder of
minorities considered
“inferior” by Nazi
Germans during World
War II. Among the
victims were mainly
Jews, but other groups
were also targeted,
such as homosexuals,
Roma and the mentally
handicapped.
Holocaust

• The Holocaust began in


Germany after Adolf
Hitler was appointed
chancellor in January
1933. Almost
immediately, the German
Nazi regime excluded
Jews from German
economic, political,
social and cultural
life.
Holocaust

• Of the nine million


Jews residing in
Europe before the
Holocaust, about six
million were killed;
more than one million
Jewish children, two
million women and
three million Jewish
men died during the
period.
Concentration Camps

• Nazi concentration camps were


constructions developed
during Nazi Germany that were
extremely well-known for
imprisoning and promoting the
extermination of Jews. In
camps designed for the
execution of Jews, Jews were
executed in gas chambers.
Gas Chamber

A gas chamber is a device for


killing humans or other animals
with gas that consists of a
closed chamber in which a
poison or asphyxiating gas is
allowed. During the Holocaust,
large-scale gas chambers were
designed for mass murder
committed during Nazi Germany.
• Auschwitz-Oświcęim.
Period of operation:
April 1940 to January
1945. About 1,000,000
to 1,500,000 died in
this camp.
• Treblinka. Period of
operation: July 1942
to November 1943.
Dead: about 800,000.
• "Warsaw, capital of
Main concentration Poland. Period of
operation: 1942 to
camps 1944. Killed: about
200,000;"
Countries invaded by
Germany

Belgium, Netherlands,
Poland-Gdańsk
Luxembourg and France 

Apr. 1940 Apr. 1941

Sep. 1939 May 1940

Greece  and
Denmark and Norway  Yugoslavia(Slovenia,
Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia,
Montenegro and
Macedonia).
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XNrkCC7pw
End Holocaust

• The Holocaust ended with


the defeat of Nazi
Germany in World War II.
Thus, as the Nazis lost
territory, the
concentration camps were
liberated by the Allied
forces and their
prisoners released.

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