Holocaust

Holocaust INTRODUCTION Did you know that six million people were murdered in death camps called concentration camps' Most of these people were Jewish. It began in Germany with Adolf Hitler who hated the Jews. In 1933 he was chancellor of Germany. The Jews began to lose their rights. Germany starts to take over countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Denmark, and Norway. Germany, under Hitler’s control started to build concentration camps like Auschwitz and Dachau. World War II had begun. ADOLF HITLER Adolf Hitler was born Adolf Schicklgruber on April 20, 1889 in Austria. When he was a teenager he wanted to become an artist and tried to attend a school in Vienna. The school did not accept him. Adolf eventually took his mother’s maiden name, Hitler. He moved to Germany in 1913 and joined the German Army in World War I. When the war ended Hitler joined a small group called the German Workers Party. They eventually became known as the Nazis. Hitler tried to take over the government. He was arrested and thrown in jail. While Hitler was in jail he wrote a book. The book talked people, germany, hitler, camps, jews, nazis, jewish, sent, concentration, german, adolf, war, over, known, joined, called, became, 1933, world, workers, work, tried, took, time, thought, take, soldiers, school, party, night, nazi, million, kristallnacht, killed, jail