Welcome to the second stop! Here you will learn about when the Concentration Camps took place and why. On this page your main goal is to be able to explain the Holocaust, when it occurred, and who it effected.
The Holocaust is generally viewed as the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million Jews, (two-thirds of the total European Jewish population), but also 5 million others, approximately 11 million individuals murdered by Nazi Germany. There were two main phases to the Holocaust, the period between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi rise, and the period between 1939 and 1945, the period of war, World War II. The first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war: May 8, 1945. The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious and political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into Hitler’s ideal.
Here is a visual history video about the Holocaust, please be warned the content is graffic:
Now that you understand the time setting of the Concentration Camps, let's learn about the most famous concentration camp, Auschwitz. Please continue to Stop 3 by clicking on link on the right margin!
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