Final Solution: Jews and others that Hitler did not like were being sent to ghettos and Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) were killing hundreds of thousands, often by shooting them. On July 31, 1941 Hitler's top commander, Hermann Goering, commented to Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the SD (security service of the SS) about the need of the final solution, or in German an Endlosung, to the Jewish question. This was when every Jew in German held land had to wear a yellow star with the word Jew printed on it in the native language. Most Jews were now open targets for the German people.
Death Camps: Starting in 1941, the Germans were sending the people in the ghettos to concentration camps. They began with those who where viewed as useless or at least of the least use, such as the elderly, the sick, the weak, and the very young. In these concentration camps, or death camps, the SS began gassing large groups of people. The first mass gassing was in Belzec on March 17, 1942. Many more massive death camps were being created around occupied Poland. All over the area Germany had taken over and even the places that were allied with Germany began having their Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and all others Hitler did not like being deported to concentration camps. Auschwitz alone, the most famous of these concentration camps, had more than 2 million killed there. While only the Jews were gassed many other non-Jewish people died from starvation, disease, and general lack of decent living conditions.
Aftermath: Those who survived the Holocaust had a terrible time coming home after they were released from the concentration camps. Most of the things they had previously known was lost, most of the people they had known were dead. Around this time many of those who had left the concentration camps went to different places in Europe where they felt they could live better lives. The Allies tried to punish the Nazis with the Nuremberg Trials where they put as many Nazis on trial for the terrible atrocities they had committed.
Death Camps: Starting in 1941, the Germans were sending the people in the ghettos to concentration camps. They began with those who where viewed as useless or at least of the least use, such as the elderly, the sick, the weak, and the very young. In these concentration camps, or death camps, the SS began gassing large groups of people. The first mass gassing was in Belzec on March 17, 1942. Many more massive death camps were being created around occupied Poland. All over the area Germany had taken over and even the places that were allied with Germany began having their Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and all others Hitler did not like being deported to concentration camps. Auschwitz alone, the most famous of these concentration camps, had more than 2 million killed there. While only the Jews were gassed many other non-Jewish people died from starvation, disease, and general lack of decent living conditions.
Aftermath: Those who survived the Holocaust had a terrible time coming home after they were released from the concentration camps. Most of the things they had previously known was lost, most of the people they had known were dead. Around this time many of those who had left the concentration camps went to different places in Europe where they felt they could live better lives. The Allies tried to punish the Nazis with the Nuremberg Trials where they put as many Nazis on trial for the terrible atrocities they had committed.