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 The Final Solution was a program created by the Nazis, initiated by Adolf Hitler, to completely exterminate the entire Jewry race.  Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, had an entire plan to create a “purified and perfect race”. Hitler believed that Jews were an inferior race and must be eliminated.  Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis systematically made there through Europe killing over 6 million Jews and others in the process, and leaving a scar in our history.

Hitler’s Power _frame/36ba03wed59b2dab4  Hitler became ruler in  When Hitler started ruling Germany, a little over 500,000 Jews were under German control.  Hitler’s goal was to make one perfect race of Germans.  That meant getting rid of the Jews.

The Solutions  The first solution was to make 100’s of cities and towns ‘Jew- free’.  The second solution was to approve emigration by the Nazis.  The third solution was to expel all the Jews of Poland and make them live in restricted areas.  The fourth solution was to murder every Jew in the localities.  The final solution was to round-up all the rest of the Jews and deport them to the East.

 In 1933 the Nazi dominated Germany and used boycotts and violence to socially isolate Jews.  In 1939, after the invasion of Poland by the Nazi Party and the beginning of word war II, was when the mass murder of Jews and other “inferiors” began.  Nazis used enclosed areas called Ghettos to control the Jews in central and eastern Poland. They were overcrowded and unsanitary. And the food was insubstantial.  Jews then in 1941 would be deported to concentration camps where they murdered in mass amounts.

The First Concentration Camp  Dachau was the first concentration.  It was established in March 1933, which was two months after Hitler came to power.  The concentration camp was located about 10 miles outside of Munich. cle.php?ModuleId=

 The final solution was a horrible time for Germans and Jewish people.  Ghettoization- The movement of all Jewish people into walled in communities.  Death Camps-Centers established and designed specifically for mass murder.  Labor Camp- a prison camp where the prisoners were used for slave labor.  Crematorium- An oven where the bodies of newly murdered prisoners, and others were incinerated.  Babi Yar- An area in the Soviet Union where thousands of civilians, most of them Jewish, were murdered by the Nazis.

 Einsatzgruppen-”Special Action Squads” also known as S.S. officers.  Auschwitz- The most infamous and largest of the Nazi death camps. Auschwitz(top view)   December 11, 1941-The day Germany declared war against America.  May 7, 1945 – The day Germany formally surrendered.

Extermination  6 million Jews were exterminated during the whole Holocaust by Nazis and Germans.  The Holocaust took place between 1932 –  During the Holocaust there were a lot of events, decisions, motivations, and realities which permits almost a historical understanding.  To a large extent, it is in this easily understood for about half a century now.

 Death marches- Forced marches under brutal conditions required of all camps inmates by the Nazi’s to avoid liberation.  Extermination- Mass murder.  Gas chambers- Rooms constructed to be airtight so that poison gas introduced into the room would kill large numbers of people.  Gypsies- Dark-skinned, caucasian ethnic group with origins in India who had, in many cases in Europe, a migratory way of life.

 Tuberculosis-an infectious disease which can effect any organ, but particularly attacks the lungs.  Typhus-a disease transmitted by lice or fleas which was epidemic in concentration camps.  Zyklon B-a cyanide gas developed to kill Jews at Auschwitz in a manner which was more efficient than using carbon monoxide gas.  The Final Solution- It’s the term used by the Nazi’s to describe their program of mass murder of the Jewish people.

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