Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe What events led to the Final Solution?

Relocation to the Ghettos After Kristallnacht, Jews in Germany realized the situation would only get worse if they stay 400K Jews had already immigrated to Palestine British stop immigration to Palestine, not sure what to do with Arabs Jews look elsewhere, ships carrying Jewish immigrants like St. Louis were not permitted into US & other countries When Nazis realized Jews couldn’t leave Germany, they began to deport Jews into segregated ghettos, mostly in Poland Jews would be identified and forced to wear the Star of David

The Final Solution When Jews weren’t dying fast enough in ghettos, Nazis developed a plan of genocide called “the Final Solution” Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals & Communists will be eliminated in the Holocaust SS killing squads shot people & bury the bodies in mass graves When killing squads aren’t eliminating “inferior” groups quick enough, Nazis again turn to poison gas 1942: People are shipped to concentration camps, mostly in Poland, “Death Camps” had huge gas chambers that could kill up to 6K a day Auschwitz was the largest and most notorious of the camps Events that led to the Holocaust: Mien Kampf - Propaganda - Nuremberg Laws – Kristallnacht – Deportation to Ghettos – Final Solution