“the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution & murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.", Nazi Beer Hall Putsch on November 8-9, a failed coup attempt, "My Struggle" (1925) - outlined his antisemitic views, politics, & future plans for Germany, Reichstag fire (February 27) that was used by the Nazi Party to seize power , Boycott of Jewish businesses, Nuremberg Laws, Kritallnacht, Jewish Ghettos, Boycott of Jewish Businesses - the first attempt to isolate Jews socially and economically , The Nuremberg Laws - restricted the freedom of Jews in Germany, by taking away citizenship & forcing the wearing of the Star of David, Kristallnacht - "Night of Broken Glass," 15 hours that included property damage, arson, and Jewish arrests, Jewish Ghettos - segregation of Jews into small areas of the city surrounded by barbed wire or high walls, Camps, Deportations throughout Europe, The Final Solution, Liberation, Camps - key to Hitler's efforts & included prisoner-of-war, forced-labor, concentration, and mass extermination, Deportations throughout Europe - in Nazi-occupied countries, moving Jews beginning in 1943 to Eastern European camps, The Final Solution - the methods of killing Jews, organization of death camps, & scheduled transport of Jews across Europe to mass extermination camps, Liberation - when Allied forces defeated Hitler's army only about 300,000 prisoners remained in camps, Wannsee Conference - the creation of "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question", Poland - the location of extermination camps where victims were transported by train, 6 million Jewish deaths, from 1933 when the Nazis came to power & 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allies, International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) , Bystander - a witness to the events who was neither a perpetrator, a collaborator, nor a victim, but did not stand up to protect victims, from the Ancient Greek word génos (meaning "race" or "people") with the Latin caedere, "to kill" (-cide).

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