The document outlines the systematic persecution and extermination of Jews by the Nazis during World War II, starting with the deprivation of citizenship rights in 1933 and culminating in the Holocaust. By the end of the war, approximately 5.8 million Jews had been killed, while only about 200,000 survived, with liberators discovering horrific conditions in concentration camps upon liberation. The text highlights the suffering endured by prisoners and the unspeakable atrocities committed within the camps.

1. WWII

2. THE HOLOCAUST
• The Nazis wanted to deprive the Jews of
their citizenship
• 1933 Nazis began to fire Jews from their
governmental and public jobs
• March 1933 the SS began a reign of terror
against the Jews and set up the first
concentration camp at Dachau
• In 1935 with the Nuremberg Laws Jews
lost all their citizenship rights

3. • 1938 the Jews began to be rounded up
and placed in Concentration Camps
• September or October 1941
preparations were underway for the
Final Solution (extermination of the
Jews)
• Jews were killed at the camps using
gas, disguised as showers
• When the war ended 200,000 Jews
survived
• About 5.8 Million Jews were killed by
the end of war

4. LIBERATION
• As the Allied offensive moved
across Germany, many divisions
encountered tens of thousands of
concentration camp prisoners
• The prisoners were suffering from
long marches from camps in
Poland, and they were
malnourished and had diseases.
• When camps were being liberated
and guards were beginning to
retreat, underground prisoners
organizations tried to prevent
more atrocities from occurring

5. • Liberators confronted unspeakable
conditions in the Nazi camps, where
piles of corpses lay unburied.
• Until they entered the camps no one
knew the full scope of the Nazi
horrors.
• Some of the prisoners skeletons
because of the demands of forced
labor and the lack of
food, compounded by months and
years of maltreatment.
• Disease remained an ever-present
danger, and many of the camps had to
be burned down to prevent the spread
of epidemics.