HOW WAS THE HOLOCAUST CARRIED OUT?
The Holocaust began in 1933 and ended in 1945 – twelve years marked by increasing brutality in the areas under German occupation. Historian Raul Hilberg explains: “The destruction process was a development which began with mild measures and ended with drastic action.” January 30, 1933: Within weeks of this date, which marked the election of the Nazi Party and the appointment of its head, Adolf Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany, the German Jews began to be systematically excluded from German life. September 15, 1935: The Nuremberg Laws institutionalized racial antisemitism by declaring that only so-called “Aryans” were German citizens and by stripping so-called “non-Aryans” (that is, Jews) of their citizenship and civil rights. During the next three years, hundreds of additions to these laws segregated Jews from non-Jews socially and economically, depriving them of their livelihoods, possessions, and property. The Nazis even destroyed art and literature created by Jews in an effort to “p
