The+Holocaust

=**__Hitler became Germany's Chancellor on January 30, 1933. That day would change the world forever.__** = The Holocaust lasted 12 years - January 30th, 1933 to May 8th, 1945 (which is when the war ended). Hitler believed the Jews were the cause for all of Germany's losses in WWI. When Hitler went to jail in 1932, (he was involved in the Beerhall Putsch, which was an attempt to overthrow the German government. He was charged for High Treason and served only 30 months of a 40 year sentence) he started working on a book titled Mein Kampf. This book contained all of Hitler's ideas about the Jews (and other minorities such as homosexuals, gypsies, disabled persons, beggars, and more) were explained. To Hitler, all a person needed were one-two Jewish grandparents to be classified as a Jew. In the beginning, the Holocaust was nothing but small riots and discriminating signs. Eventually, these small riots and signs turned into more offending and unequal treatments, like the Nuremberg Laws (a set of laws that greatly restricted Jewish rights) and the notorious Kristallnacht (A.K.A. The Night of Shattering Glass. On November 9th, 1938, Nazi troops and the Hitler Youth smashed Jewish businesses, houses, etc.). Eventually, Hitler went to an even further level, and introduced the Concentration camps. At these camps, Jews were given //very// little food, unhealthy living conditions, and either worked 10-12 hour days or were killed via gas chamber, crematorium, or shot. On average, Jews were given 300 calories per day, thats about one cup of soup's worth of calories. They then had to work, burning off between 1000 and 2000 calories per day. Because of the high negative amount of calories, many inmates lost so much weight they appeared as if they were walking corpses. After a few years, Hitler went up //another// step, and introduced the death camps. The six death camps, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau were designed to kill. All of the death camps were located in Poland, and were equiped with crematoria, gas chambers, and more. In total, the death camps killed //__over **two million** of the **six million** Jews that were killed in the Holocaust__////__​.__// In all, //__about five million gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc were killed as well in the war.__// The Holocaust ended with WWII's end and Hitler's death on May 8th, 1945.