What happened to Jews during World War II.

1939 September 1 Just as Germany attacked Poland and set off the prelude of World War II, a nation called "Jews" ushered in its darkest moment. When the Germans killed their opponents at will on the battlefield, they also raised the butcher knife to the Jews' heads.

During World War II, German high-level officials formulated the "plan to exterminate Jews". At first, Jews under their control were required to wear the Jewish Star sign before going out to distinguish Jews from ordinary people.

Then all kinds of gimmicks were used to deprive Jews of their property, and finally they were thrown into concentration camps at a certain pace and scale, and then "detained" and "executed" in turn. Among them, in order to make the killing more efficient, the Germans used toxic gases such as hydrocyanic acid to end the lives of Jews in batches.

According to postwar statistics, by the end of 1945, there were only 70,000 Jews left in Poland, 35,000 Jews left in the Netherlands and 250,000 Jews left in Romania.

To sum up, it can be seen that the main Jewish settlements in Europe have been devastated. Throughout World War II, the survival rate of European Jews was below 50%, and Poland reached an extreme 2%.

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At first, the secret police poisoned Jews with car exhaust. However, from 1942, the SS used hydrocyanic acid and its salts to exterminate Jews in more effective ways.

In this series of massacres, a total of 6 million Jews were slaughtered. "Holocaust" is the name of the Jewish Holocaust in English and German. The word comes from Greek, which means to sacrifice with fire. Jews call it "Shoah", which comes from Hebrew and means "catastrophe".

Since 1933, the German Nazi Party has been under dictatorship, and then gradually developed large-scale anti-Semitic actions. In the same year, the Nazi German government stripped all Jewish civil servants of their posts, and purged those Jewish members who were considered inferior from the army, police and judicial organs.

1935 The Nuremberg Act defines "Jew"-all Germans with more than one Jewish grandparent will be regarded as "Jews". The bill also deprived Jews of their basic rights as German nationals. ?

Subsequently, other bills were introduced one after another, such as "Jews having sex with non-Jews is regarded as a crime" and other legal provisions directly targeting Jews emerged one after another. By 1938, Nazi Germany had banned Jews from most occupations.

1938165438+1October 9, an anti-semitic incident (called "Crystal Night") planned by the Nazi Party broke out, a large number of Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed, many Jews were beaten, and the social status of Jews was even lower.

1939 After Germany invaded Poland in September and triggered the Second World War, the Nazi Party's anti-Semitic policy became more extreme and gradually spread to other parts of Europe with the German occupation.

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