Treatment of Jews during war years

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  • Created by: GZucchi
  • Created on: 14-01-17 17:31
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  • How Jews were treated during war
    • Outbreak of War
      • More extreme treatment
      • More Jews under Nazi control.
      • Nazis used more extreme solutions
    • Ghettos
      • Keep Jews in
      • conditions appalling
      • Starvation rations, hunger + intense cold
      • 55,000 Jews died in Warsaw Ghetto
    • Einsatzgruppen
      • Jews killed by murder squads
      • Raided towns and villages
      • Jews forced to dig own graves
    • Final Solution
      • Final solution - to exterminate all Jews in death camps
      • Jan 1942- Nazi leaders worked out details of the Final Solution
      • First camps began operating in March 1942
      • Death camps built in Poland
      • Jews being transported to death camps by Summer 1943
    • The Death Camps
      • Jews divided into two groups
        • those fit to work
        • those who were sent to gas chambers
      • Survivors no better off - worked to death
      • Elder, mothers & children under 10 executed imm.
      • Little opposition- prisoners did not realise that they were going to be killed
      • Bodies burnt or left in mass pits
      • Conditions were terrible
      • Little food, disease spread fast+ inmates used for experiments
        • Doctors trying to create perfect Aryan race
      • 1945- 6 million Jews had been killed

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