Hitler's goal to create “A Master Race” The Holocaust Hitler's goal to create “A Master Race” Brianna Sanchez

Genocide: The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire Genocide: The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. People considered unfit for “the master race” included; Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, persons with cognitive or physical disabilities, those that were incurably ill or had hereditary diseases. In the beginning (1933) these people, within the boarders of Germany, were at risk for being rounded up and shot by SS squadrons or send to one of the newly opened concentration camps.

Forced in to the Ghettos The Germans segregated themselves from the Jews by moving them to Ghettos. The people in the Ghettos were forced to work in factories that the Germans built near by. German Killing Squads visited often to murder anyone they wanted. In 1940 as more than 700,000 Jews were sealed inside these camps and left to die.

Concentration Camps These Nazi camps were originally set up for political opponents and protesters. The SS later expanded the camps as a place to hold other “undesirables.” Life in the camps was a cycle of hunger, humiliation and work that almost always ended in dealth. They worked from dawn to dusk, seven days a week. Those too weak to work were killed.

Map of Concentration Camp Locations

The Final Stage: Mass Extermination The Germans built six death camps in Poland. Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12,000 people could be killed a day. During 1941-1942 the Germans deported Jews, from ghettos and concentration camps from all over Europe, to these Death Camps. It is estimated that over 5,962,129 Jewish lives were taken. More than 11 Million people slain total.