The Holocaust began with Hitler seized power in January 1933 and ended on VE Day (May 8, 1945). In the meantime, have drawn more than 6 million Jews and millions of others, the negative attention of Nazi Germany. While all murders were devastating for the indigenous population, none has as devastating as that of the Jews. In this period have 5,000 Jewish communities have been eliminated and the total number of dead represented one third of the Jewish people alive at that time.
Through a series of events that took Hitler dictatorial powers 23rd March 1933, if adopted for implementation. With a total power available to him, he quickly developed a sophisticated police and military forces to suppress noise and someone who is critical of his authority. From this came from the camp authorities Concentis First, Dachau, outside Munich, which began as a camp for political prisoners, but has over time developed into a full scale Nazi concentration camps, extermination of Jews and others.
At the end of 1934 the campaign against the Jews was in full force Hiter. The Nazis weere claiming they are bastards, the pure German race and the persecution of the Jewish community has grown in strength damaged. Those coming from Germany to other European countries, the security for a while they could, fled.
The next big event, the widespread destruction of the Jews was carried, the meeting gathered in July 1938 when representatives from 32 countries in the French town of Evian to discuss the problems of refugees created by the Nazis – but conclusive, since no measures taken, Hitler took this as a de facto fixed, that no one to act against him while he was working with it to cleanse the Jews from their territory.
Germany started the Second World War with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and in 1940 the Jewish ghettos in Poland, where they could be isolated from the rest of society and keep in mind. The conditions in the ghetto were miserable – not enough food, water, space, sanitation, etc., and many died horrible conditions.
In June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and began to implement the Final Solution – the beginnings of the systematic destruction of the reactions. At first they were just picked up, and threw open shot in mass graves. It is estimated that over 1 million people died in this way. But it is still not sufficiently effective in preventing death camps increasingly developed.
From this point, the Germans have been working more efficiently and to liquidate them by killing in concentration camps, systematic and recycle the valuables in the war effort undesirable. And in this case was a valuable person in good health – if the Germans prisoner labor, until they had no more energy to produce, then kill them. In fact, had forced the millions of slaves, worked to death in order to help the Germans in their war effort.
This atrocity has continued to the end of the war – with the release will happen until July 1944 and later. In July 1944, the Soviet Union concentration camp Majdanek liberatated in January 1945 – Auschwitz concentration camp and so on, until Nazi Germany was totally defeated and all the people were released.