Historical Context

• Germany lost World War 1. Germany was toren up after the war.
• There was an economic depression in Germany after there lost. They were bankrupt and not that much jobs. Germany couldn't get on it's feet.
• Hitler stated that it was the jewish fault on why they lost world war 1. Germans wanted someone to blame. They choosed the jewish and they wanted to get "revenge".
• Hitler got it through everyones head that it was the Jews fualt and that they needed to get exterminated. Hitler wanted to get rid of them quickly. He thought that jews had brought shame to Germany
• Hitler got power over all his rants against the jews. Hitler was making a regime that would help him get rid of jews. Hitler was soon to be a nationalist.
• The Holocaust was the event that was the killing of jews, to exterminate them. They would put jews in concentration camps to work in labor or get killed. Some jews went to ghettos to get dehumanized.
• Jews had to wear yellow stars on there clothing to indicate if they were jewish or not. It would be easier for soliders totake them to concentration camps with having to go through there profile. Soldiers know who to keeps eyes on.
• Many jews died, some went into hiding. Some jews went into hiding but didn't work. It would be hard to run away because the holocaust was spreading.
• Non jews would help jews escape or hide, Non-jews were rebeling from Hitlers desicions. Some Germans didn't want to be in the postion they wanted to but they thought they had to.
• The green police were people who would capture Jews and would take them to concetration camps
• German soliders would be patroling around the area to see for any suspicous activity. If they heard anything weird they would go check it out. They couldn't take any risks.
• Jews were put into concetration camps. German soliders would put jews in gas chamber sto kill them in large amounts. They would also burn them alive.
• Many jews were killed but some survived.. Jews were killed in big amounts but some survived when american soliders came to help.