The Nazis had made clear their hatred of Jews from as early as 1920. Their vision was of a German race cleansed of what they regarded as an alien species. After Hitler became chancellor in January 1933, the Nazis immediately began to enact laws which...
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The first Nazi concentration camps were established to incarcerate political opponents. The first camp, Dachau, near Munich was opened in March 1933. During the Second World War the concentration camp system saw a massive expansion. From the four...
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There were six extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Poland. Four of them - Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor and Treblinka - a were given over solely to mass murder, while two - Auschwitz and Majdanek - were also concentration camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the...
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After the Nazis occupied Poland, they revived the medieval practice of segregating Jews in ghettos, usually the most run-down area of a city. By mid 1941, nearly all the Jews of occupied Poland had been forced into these overcrowded districts. In the...
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In 1938 and 1939, nearly 10,000 children fleeing the persecution of Jews in Greater Germany (Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), were brought to Britain on the Kindertransporte (children’s transports). Despite...
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As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the war, they came across concentration camps filled with starving, degraded and diseased prisoners. The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. Surprised by the...
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The Nazi regime restricted people’s rights and tried to silence all criticism. Arrests and disappearances were frequent, and law courts - when they operated - imposed severe penalties on those who spoke out of turn. As the Nazis’ persecution of Jews and...
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'The Holocaust' is the term used to describe the systematic and wholesale slaughter of the Jews of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. Two-thirds of European Jewry perished between 1939 and 1945. On coming to power in...
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After the end of the Second World War in Europe and the Far East, the Allied powers undertook to bring the leading civilian and military representatives of wartime Germany and Japan to trial on charges of war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes...