Holocaust
Discovered

Holocaust Discovered
• As the Allies advanced
on Germany, the full
scope of Nazi atrocities
became known
• Millions of people had
been murdered, and the
liberating Allied armies
found piles of corpses
and thousands of staving
survivors across Europe

• The anti-Semitic and
racist views of Hitler and
the Nazi government
were well known in the
1930s
• Once Hitler assumed
dictatorial powers he
began to implement his
racist policies, with a
focus on Jews

Nazi Anti-Jewish Policies
• Removal of civil and human rights (beginning 1933)
• Organized mob violence (Kristallnacht)
• Ghettoization (beginning 1940)
• Einsatzgruppen killing squads (established June 1941)