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Chapter 20 Section 3
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Nazis believe Jews to be subhuman
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Increased persecution, eventually set up
death camps in attempt to kill all European
Jews
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Nuremberg Laws took away citizenship from
Jewish Germans
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Also banned Jews from marrying Germans
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Kristallnacht, or “night of broken glass”, began
November 1938 in Austria and Germany
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It was a night of anti-Jewish violence
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90 Jews killed, hundreds injured and more
terrorized
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Gestapo, Hitler’s secret police, arrested 30,000
Jewish men, only released if agreed to give up
possessions, emigrate
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At Wannsee Conference, Nazi leaders planned
“Final Solution”
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Nazis sent millions of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, the
disabled, and others to concentration and
extermination camps as part of Hitler’s “Final
Solution” Policy
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Concentration camps were camps where healthy
individuals would work as slave laborers until
dropped dead of exhaustion, disease, or
malnutrition
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Extermination camps were where elderly,
mentally handicapped, women and young
children sent to be executed in massive gas
chambers, bodies burned in crematoriums
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Treblinka and Auschwitz most infamous
camps, located in Poland; Buchenwald Germany
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1.6 million died at Auschwitz