1. “Final Solution”: Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people. Genocide: the systematic killing of a entire people Hitler took action (final solution/genocide) Not only Jew but the subhumans which included the gypsies, homosexuals and other group that was viewed as inferior. Jews mainly Hitler’s Final Solution

2. Hitler invaded Poland 1939 Nazi swept through Eastern Europe SS (Hitler's elite security force) hunt Jews down Prisoners taken to concentration camps or slave labor prisons (Poland and Germany) Slave for SS or German businesses (get killed or beaten if not fast) No food, hunger was common between the prisoners as well as the others who were in the camps “Hunger was so intense that if a bit of soup spilled over, prisoners would…dig their spoons into the mud and stuff the mess into their mouths.” told by one of the survivor (Beck 453) The Mass Killings Begin

3. The Final Stage: Mass Extermination During the 1942 the “Final Solution” reached at its final. Death camps were built with gas chambers that would kill as many as 6000 people a day. Death camps were mostly located in Poland, Doctor from SS would separate the “strong” and the “weak” and the weaker would die that day. Weak people are those ones who were young children, elders, sick and mostly women. The Nazi would tell the weak to undress and they would get into shower. Shower with cyanide gas instead of water. After those being killed, they would be burnt by ovens or crematoriums that was created later on.

4. The Survivors 6 million deaths and less than 4million survivors was the result of the Holocaust. Non Jewish people helped the Jews. Two example of the people are Raoul Wallenberg (Swedish businessman) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (protestant religious) Risking their lives to help Jews, by hiding them or helping them escape to Switzerland or Sweden (to neutral countries)