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The Holocaust occurred from 1933 to 1945, when approximately 6 million Jews were systematically persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime in Germany. The Nazis believed Germans were racially superior and Jews were an inferior threat. Gypsies, disabled people, and Poles were also targeted. The "Final Solution" referred to the Nazi plan to murder all Jews in Europe, which was discussed and began implementation at the 1942 Wannsee Conference. There were six death camps located in Poland - Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka - which were concentration camps designed for systematic murder.

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The Holocaust occurred from 1933 to 1945, when approximately 6 million Jews were systematically persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime in Germany. The Nazis believed Germans were racially superior and Jews were an inferior threat. Gypsies, disabled people, and Poles were also targeted. The "Final Solution" referred to the Nazi plan to murder all Jews in Europe, which was discussed and began implementation at the 1942 Wannsee Conference. There were six death camps located in Poland - Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka - which were concentration camps designed for systematic murder.

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Genocide
1. What time period are we referring to when the Holocaust
happen ?
The holocaust happen from 1933 to May 8, 1945.
2. What is the Holocaust mean ?
The holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately
6 millions of Jews by the Nazis regime between 1933 and 1945.The Nazis
who came to power in January 1933, believe that the Germans were racially
superior and that the Jews deemed inferior were an alien threat to the
German racial community .Gypsies, people with mental and physical
disabilities and Poles were also target for destruction or decimation for racial
or national reason.
3. What is the Final Solution refer to ?
The Final Solution refer to the plan of German to murder all the Jews in
Europe
The term use at the Wannsee Conference which took place in Berlin on
January 20, 1942.where german officials discussed its
implementation().The Nazis use the Final Solution conceal the plan
that , in its entirely , called for the murder of all European Jews by
shooting ,gassing. Approximately 6 millions of Jewish people were kill
during the Holocaust .
4. What is the death camp? How many were there ? Where were they
located ?
A death camps is a concentration camp with special apparatus
specifically design for systematic murder. There are six death camps
which is Auschwitz-Birkenau , Belzec , Chelmno , Majdanek , Sobibor
and Treblinka .All there were located in Poland.

5. When did the Final Solution actually begin ?

The systematic murder of Jews did not begin until the


German invasion of Soviet Union in June 1941.
6. How did the German defined who was Jewish ?
On November 14 , 1935 , the Nazis issued the following of
the definition of a Jew.
Anyone with 3 Jewish grandparents, someone with 2 Jewish
grandparents who belonged to the Jewish community on
September 15 , 1935. For those who married to a jews , was
the offspring of a marriage or extramarital liaison with a
Jews.
7. How did the Germans treat those who had some Jewish blood
but were not classified as Jews?
Those who were not classified as Jews but who had some
Jewish blood were categorized as Mischlinge and were
divided into 2 groups .
=Mischlinge of the first degree , those had 2 Jewish
grandparents
=Mischlinge of the second degree , those with 1 Jewish
grandparents.
The Mischlinge were officially excluded from membership in
the Nazi Party and all Party organization .Although they were
drafted into the German Army , they could not attain in the
rank of officers. They were barred from the civil service and
from certain professions .During WW2 , First degree
mischlinge incarcerated in concentration camps and
deported to death camps .
8. When was the first concentration camps established and
who were the first inmates ?
The first concentration camps is Dachau opened on March 22
, 1933 .The camps first inmates were primarily political
prisoners Communists,habitual criminal ,homosexual

,anti-socialbeggar , vagrants, hawkerthose consider


problematic by the Nazis Jewish writer journalist , lawyer ,
political officialswere also included .
9. What groups of people in Germany were considered enemies
of the state by the Nazis and therefore persecuted?
-Jews , Gypsies ,Social democrats and other opposing
politicians , opponents of Nazim Homosexual ,Habitual
criminal , anti-social ,the mentally ill.

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