The Jews being forced out of a ghetto.

  
           Leading up to the Final Solution the Jews were forced to pay a sum of $9,500,000 to the German government because they were thought to be the cause of the war and Germanys problems. At first the German government fired all civil servant workers that weren't of Aryan descent. The people tried to boycott all Jewish stores, the boycott only lasted three days. The Nazi organization decided to burn all Jewish and Jewish related books in big bonfires.
          Adolf Hitler and many other very powerful leaders decided on the Final Solution at the Wannsee  conference in January 1942. The Final Solution was Hitler's idea to kill at least six million Jews in Europe before the wars end. Eleven million Jews were planned to be involved in the Final Solution. The Final Solution was the code name for the genocide of all Jews.
         The first step in the Final Solution was to get all Jews into ghettos or to the east. Their were special laws passed to make the Jews live a more dreadful life. These laws were called the Nuremburg laws, 400 of these specific laws were passed by the German government. Hitler was winning Germany over, and making everyone listen to what he has to say.

           The Nazi organization sent out killing squads to kill the Jews. Sometimes these killing squads wiped out entire villages. The government decided they they needed to find a more efficient ways to exterminate the Jews. some of these ways were crematoriums, electrocution, phenol injections, flame throwers, hand grenades, and gas chambers. In 1942 alone  

German soldiers kicking a Jewish man.
the SS police killed over 500,000 Jews. The first people targeted were by the Nazis were the disabled.

           At the camps only the fittest Jews sent to work. Wounded veterans of war and Jews with war medals were accepted into special camps. The Jews were sent to death camps because the concentration camps were over full. Jews from all over the country were sent to six death camps. The Jews that weren't picked for work were sent to the gas chambers. The workers at the camps said the chambers were showers, so the Jews went in gladly. At the camps they could kill 15,000 Jews a day.
           There were some friends of the Jews such as Joseph Andre a priest. He worked to save hundreds of Jewish children by finding them hiding places.
          At the end of the Final Solution about six million Jews were killed by starvation, disease, shootings, and gassings.
          At the end of the Final Solution their were many things that happened. such as, only a few thousand children survived the camps, about one third of all Jews in Europe were killed, very few people made it out of the gates of the death camps. there were about eleven million Jews in living in Europe before the Holocaust, after the Holocaust there were about five million. Over half of all Jews in Europe were wiped out by the Final Solution.
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