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 * Why Jews?**
 * //Jews were picked on because people thought they had power, but in reality they were actually weak. They were weak because the Jews were all divided. They had different beliefs, political and religious. The Jews were all in different social groups. If they were and actual group of people who were united as the Nazi's said they were, millions of Jews could have survived.//


 * What did the Jews try to do?**
 * //Many Jews converted to Christianity to avoid discrimination. Although this does seem like it might work it made matters worse. Old Jews hated them because they considered the converters as traitors and Christians believed that they were fakes. Now instead of one group of people hating them they were being hated from both ends of the spectrum.//


 * What Exactly Happened?**
 * //January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany//
 * //March 1933 there was one whole week while Storm Troopers beat, robbed, and murdered Jews. The police were ordered to stand and watch. "//Jude verrecke!" //or "to hell with the Jews!" rang throughout the streets.//
 * //1933 370,000 Jews left Germany.//
 * //September 15, 1935 Citizenship and racial laws announced at a Nazi party rally.//
 * //September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland and World War II begins.//
 * //January 20, 1942 Nazi Government leaders meet at Wannsee near Berlin to discuss the genocide of the Jews. This was called "the final solution to the Jewish Question".//
 * //1942 Nazis set up "extermination" camps located in Poland at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lubin begin mass murder of Jews using the gas chambers.//
 * //May 15-July 9, 1944 Over 430,000 Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, most of them are send to the gas chamber//


 * What was done to the Jews?**
 * //Aside from the obvious (Jews were sent to concentration and labor camps) they endured a lot of verbal attacks.//
 * //They were discriminated against. They were hated because of their religion and because people thought they had a lot of power. Jews ended up being sent to Ghettos because of this.//
 * //At least 960,000 Jews were killed in Auschwitz.//
 * //Not only were Jews killed but there were other victims who included 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities.//


 * What were the other concentration/labor camps Jews were sent to?**
 * //All throughout Europe there were concentration camps in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, and Yugoslavia. For a full list [|click here.]//
 * //To get a virtual tour of a concentration camp, look at this tour of [|Auschwitz.]//


 * What can I do to understand better?**
 * //To better understand what happened in the Holocaust and why, you should read the rest of the posts by the other 8-3 lit circles, and do some more reading. Don't be afraid to broaden your understanding!//
 * //The sourced that really helped this Lit Circle were our book __I have Lived a Thousand Years__, the handout "The Protection of German Blood and German Honor" and [|this] website.//

** Auschwitz before the Selection process The men and women selected for death Hitler at the peak of his power "defending" German honor.
 * Some pictures to help you comprehend what went on...