Persecution of the Jews:

Non-Ayran people were people who had a Jewish background. The Nazis wished to make Jewish lives unbearable, causing the Jews to leave the country. The following 11 years from 1922 around 200 Jewish graves were violated.

1922 - 1933:

The Nazi's plan worked. Many of the 550 000 Jewish people fled to other countries hoping they could start a new, better life in a foreign country. The other countries which the Jews fled to could not cope with the sudden increase in population.

September 1935:

There were some laws which were called the Nuremberg Laws (15 September) which disallowed Jewish people to be German citizens. Some of the Jews rights were taken from them when the laws went into action. Over the following 5 years other laws were passed which stripped the Jews of every other right.

July 1938:

The 33 countries under pressure met up in a conference named the Evian Conference. Only a few of the 33 countries allowed Jews to immigate into their country

November 1938:

November 10th was named the Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht). Nazis ruined many Jewish buildings throughout Germany, close to 200 synagogues were burned down and 10 000 shop windows were smashed. Due to this scare many Jewish people fled from Germany to find peace in a foreign country because the Jews were ordered to pay one billion marks to the government. All of this started due to the fact that a Jew shot and killed a Nazi.

1939:

The second world war in 1939 caused the Nazis to treat the Jews even worse than before, forcing them to live in inhumane conditions, in ghettos. The largest of the European ghettos was the one in Warsaw in which half of a million people lived on 1.3 square miles of land, leaving 7 people to share one room. Could you believe that only one in a hundred flats had running water.

June 1941 - July 1941

The Soviet Union was invaded by the Nazis in June of 1941 and only one month later Goering signed an order to make arrangements to solve the Jewish problem. Mass graves were dug and local Jews which had been killed by killing squads were thrown into them.

After July 1941:

The killing squads were unable to cope with the vast amount of Jews so Jews were sent to the Chelmo camp where up to 40 people were killed at one time. They were put in a gas van which was filled with carbon monoxide. Up to an unbelieveable 200 000 Polish Jews were killed by this method only. This 200 000 does not count the thousands of Soviet prisoners.

1942:

The Nazis decided at the Wannsee Conference that they would not stop at their own country. They invaded the countries in which the threatened Jews of the 1930s fled to. Making it easier for the Nazis they decided that any Jewish people found anywhere in Europe would be grouped together and taken to death camps. The dead bodies were placed in large ovens, this was an easier way to cope with the vast number of bodies.

The total number of Jews killed throughout this period of time is estimated between 5 and 6 million people.