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German railways and the Holocaust

by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The European rail network played a crucial role in the implementation of the Final Solution. Jews from Germany and German-occupied Europe were deported by rail to killing centers in occupied Poland, where they were killed. The Germans attempted to disguise their intentions, referring to deportations as “resettlement to the east.”

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Euthanasia program and Aktion T4

by United States Holocaust Museum

The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. ‘Aryan’ race of people considered genetically defective and a financial burden to society.

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Children during the Holocaust

by Holocaust Encyclopedia

Children were especially vulnerable to Nazi persecution. Because they were too young to be used for forced labor, German authorities often selected them for the first deportations to killing centers, or as the first victims led to mass graves to be shot. As many as 1.5 million Jewish children alone were murdered or died at the hands of the Nazi’s.

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Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust

by BBC News
January 23, 2020

Nazi leaders met in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the industrial slaughter – what they called a “final solution to the Jewish question” – killing the entire European Jewish population, 11 million people, by extermination and forced labour.

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Jews Killed During the Holocaust by Country

by Jennifer Rosenberg
Updated on February 4, 2022

During the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered an estimated six million Jews. These were Jews from across Europe who spoke different languages and had different cultures. Some of them were wealthy and some of them were poor. Some were assimilated and some were Orthodox. What they did have in common was that all of them had at least one Jewish grandparent, which was how the Nazis defined who was Jewish.

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Essential Facts About the Holocaust

by Jennifer Rosenberg
Updated on February 25, 2020

The Holocaust is one of the most notorious acts of genocide in modern history. The many atrocities committed by Nazi Germany before and during World War II destroyed millions of lives and permanently altered the face of Europe.

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Types of camps

by The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Nazis used a variety of camps throughout their time in power to persecute, control and, eventually, murder their opponents.

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Hitler’s hunger plan

Nobel Peace Center

Starvation was a central strategy in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. Hitler had long been aware of the power that lay in controlling the food….

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