Activity 6: The Holocaust

1.      When six million Jews in Germany and other parts of Europe were systematically exterminated in an act of genocide.

2.      They blamed them for the many economic problems that Germany was experiencing.

3.      They first boycotted Jewish shops and businesses they had prejudicial laws placed against them, they had firing squads kill many Jews and they had many of them gassed in concentration camps like Auschwitz.

4.      During the war they did not have the opportunity or man power to free the Jews from these camps and end the oppressive regime because they could not break through the German lines. After the war they had many of the Nazis tried and then executed and the freed all of the Jews out of the concentration camps.