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In 1933 Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany. He wanted to wipe out the Jewish population and conquer the world. At this time there were about three million Jews living in Germany. The Nazi’s believed that the Germans were superior. They mistakenly saw Jews as a specific race, therefore claiming them to be inferior and a prime target for killing. "Holocaust" is a word that means widespread destruction. Hitler’s hatred for the Jews and his need for total power definitely created widespread destruction in Germany.

The Holocaust first started out as the persecution of the Jews in Germany and other places ruled by Hitler in 1933. There were many laws and restrictions imposed by the Nazis that robbed the Jews of their rights and their possessions, leaving them with nothing. Jews could not own property or businesses. They could not attend public school or go to college. The Jewish people could not go to theaters, cinemas or vacation resorts. They could not even walk in some parts of Germany. To further rid Germany of this "inferior" race, the Nazi’s subjected 350,000 people to a type of radiation that would prevent them from having children.

Then, suddenly on the night of November 9th 19

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The others that stayed in Germany and Austria were unwilling to uproot themselves from their homeland.

There were many other kinds of people being killed in concentration camps besides the Jews. They would place the Star of David on the front wall of their gas houses, and they would have a sign on the door in Hebrew saying, "This is the gate through which the righteous pass. This particular night is known as Dristallnacht, which means " the night of broken glass. They tried to cover up any evidence of there ever being a concentration camp in their area. There were three main camps within Auschwitz, the Auschwitz I, II, III. , Latin America, China, and Palestine. Only about 200,000 people survived this horrible camp. The six main concentration camp sites were Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Holocaust was an Era of death and devastation. However, the vast majority of the victims were Jewish. "

Prisoners at concentration camps were worked to death as slave laborers and were murdered in gas chambers. They sent the prisoners on "Death Marches.

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