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1941-1944

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  • the Holocaust - more than 6 million Jews were mass murdered
  • another 6 million non-Jews were also killed
  • Gypsies
  • Slavic people
  • mentally and physically disable
  • homosexuals
  • political opponents
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largest ghetto

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  • Warsaw, Poland
  • unsanitary housing
  • contagious diseases
  • no food
  • tens of thousands died in the ghettoes
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note

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  • killing squads sued to murder many Jews in Soviet Union
  • SS soldiers took their valuables, marched them to the outskirts of town, and shot them
  • bodies were dumped in mass graves
  • killing squads killed more than 1 million Jews this way
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genocide

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  • the carefully planned killing of an entire group of people based on their race or culture
  • Nazis began rounding up hundreds of thousands of Jews and shipping them on trains or trucks to concentration camps and death camps
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largest death camp

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  • Auschwitz in Poland
  • many people in the death camps were killed by the gas chambers
  • others died of starvation and exhaustion
  • others were the victims of cruel experiments done by Nazi doctors
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thousands of Jews died in the ghettos, due to the scarcity of food and the _______

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  • non-sanitary housing
  • crammed living conditions
  • mass shootings
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Hitler blamed the ________ for Germany’s defeat back in WWI

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  • Jews
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“The Final Solution” was Hitler’s plan to exterminate the entire _______ race

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  • Jewish
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Hitler wrote a book called “_________” which outlined his plan for the extermination of all Jews in Europe

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  • Mein Kampf
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about how many Jews were murdered in the Holocause

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  • 6,000,000

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