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Jews in The Holocaust
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This map shows the distribution of Jews in Europe in 1933. The total Jewish population of Europe at the time was about 9.5 million. This number represented more than 60% of the world's Jewish population. Jews represented 4% of Germany’s population before WWII USHMM: HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=358 (Dec, 07 2010) http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=358
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Burning synagogue of Siegen during Kristallnacht of the 9 th November, 1938 The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Online Database. http://www.cympm.com/kristallnacht.html (Dec 07 2010) http://www.cympm.com/kristallnacht.html
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Jews arrested during Kristallnacht line up for roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp. November 1938. Lorenz C. Schmuhl Papers, USHMM Archives. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kristallnacht/img6pic.htm (Dec 07 2010)http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kristallnacht/img6pic.htm
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Jewish emigration from Nazi-Germany prior to WWII The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Online Database. http://www.cympm.com/emigration.html (Dec 07 2010) http://www.cympm.com/emigration.html
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Social Darwinism
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Nazi propaganda photo depicts friendship between an "Aryan" and a black woman. The caption states: "The result! A loss of racial pride." USHMM. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10005479&MediaId=637 (Dec 07,2010)
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Eugenics
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A Nazi chart incorporating Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity, part of efforts to show how "racially mixed" parents produced "inferior" offspring. Pittsburg Post- Courtesy of USHMM, http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A21035 (Dec,07 2010)http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A21035
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Legislation based on Eugenics As a part of the Nuremberg Race Laws Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (September 15, 1935) The Reich Citizenship Law (October 20, 1935)
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A German farmer has his nose measured to check his Aryan “credentials” USHMM: The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, 1933-1939 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007057 (Dec 07,2010) http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007057
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Concentration Camps In Europe Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, 1939-1945. This map shows all extermination camps (or death camps), most major concentration camps, labor camps, prison camps, ghettos, major deportation routes and major massacre sites. Self-made by User:Dna-Dennis, using information from USHMM & Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WW2-Holocaust-Europe.png (Dec 07 2010)User:Dna-DennisUSHMM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WW2-Holocaust-Europe.png
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Jewish mother executed while trying to save her baby from German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen)near Kiev, Ukraine Główny Zarząd Polityczny WP (1960). Z Dziejów Wojny Wyzwoleńczej Narodu Polskiego 1939-1945, 255, Warszawa:Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej. http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/pressimages/Ivangorod1942.jpg
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Nazi gas van used to murder Jews at Chelmno extermination camp, Poland. Archives of the Polish Ministry of Justice; http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/documents/chelmnovan.html (Dec 07 2010) http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/documents/chelmnovan.html
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Entrance into Auschwitz concentration camp. Sign reads: Work will set you free. USHMM: Expansion of the Concentration Camps, 1939-1945 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007057 (Dec 07,2010) http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007057
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