An Introductory History of the Holocaust | Jewish Virtual Library - 0 views
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A major tool of the Nazis' propaganda assault was the weekly Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer
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Elena Mangialardo on 01 Apr 14Talk about propaganda and how it affected what people thought about Jews.
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After its defeat in World War I, Germany was humiliated by the Versailles Treaty, which reduced its prewar territory, drastically reduced its armed forces, demanded the recognition of its guilt for the war, and stipulated it pay reparations to the allied powers.
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Soon after he became chancellor, Hitler called for new elections in an effort to get full control of the Reichstag, the German parliament, for the Nazis. The Nazis used the government apparatus to terrorize the other parties. They arrested their leaders and banned their political meetings. Then, in the midst of the election campaign, on February 27, 1933, the Reichstag building burned. A Dutchman named Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested for the crime, and he swore he had acted alone. Although many suspected the Nazis were ultimately responsible for the act, the Nazis managed to blame the Communists, thus turning more votes their way.
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The Sturmabteilung
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concentration camps
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By the end of 1934 Hitler was in absolute control of Germany, and his campaign against the Jews in full swing
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. Hitler began to restrict the Jews with legislation and terror, which entailed burning books written by Jews
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They formed the legal basis for the Jews' exclusion from German society and the progressively restrictive Jewish policies of the Germans.
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In June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and began the "Final Solution."
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While the Nazis murdered other national and ethnic groups, such as a number of Soviet prisoners of war, Polish intellectuals, and gypsies, only the Jews were marked for systematic and total annihilation. J
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killing centers (death camps) in Poland: Chelmno (Kulmhof), Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Maidanek and Auschwitz.
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The major concentration camps were Ravensbruck, Neuengamme, Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Flossenburg, Natzwei