In what way did the nazis attempt to eliminate all jews in europe

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In what way did the Nazis attempt to eliminate all Jews in Europe from 1941 onwards?

The Nazis tried many things to eliminate many Jews. They used methods such as slave labour, concentration and death camps. By the end of the Holocaust the Nazis had killed about 6million Jews. They also started boycotting all the Jewish shops and stopped all Jews from working. By 1941 all Jews were forced to were the star of David and if they failed to do so it would lead to them  being arrested and put in prison. In April 1943 all German Jews lost the write to be German citizens.

 

There was six Death camps in Nazi Germany Auschwitz, Birkenau , Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek  and Terblinka. Many mass murders and body disposal took place here. The Jews were sent to one of these camps from western Europe and the ghettos in Eastern Europe. Auschwitz became one the largest mass murder camp as large number of Jews from Europe were killed here , by 1942 this camp started using Zyklon-B  to gas all the Jews. This camp would also normally kill children on the arrival. In one case a mother did not want to be separated from her 13 year old daughter so she bit and scraped an SS officer face both her and her daughter were shot by him on the spot as a form of punishment.

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In 1942 at the wannsee meeting the Nazis came up with the final solution  . All the Jews would be taken to the east for labour they would then form large labour gangs separating the sexes. They would work on road construction and a lot of them would die due to natural causes and those who did not die would be dealt with accordingly. All the Jews would be taken to see a doctor who would decide if they were fit enough to work and those who were not fit enough were taken and Jewish prisoners would tell them ...

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