holocaust

about the holocaust. it started just with some minorities being disliked. not seen as good, left alone. but before long they became harrassed, beaten, driven out. jews were the most common but all minorities had some of it. a minor german diplomat was killed nobody important but by a jew this triggered kristalnacht the first open en masse destruction of eveything jewish. riots went off everywhere and this was just the beginning. after the invasion of poland jews were being openly rounded up into ghettos and would dissapear occasionally nothing major. yet by 1940 and the invasion of russia jews began being killed by the lot usually shot down by soldiers. regular soldiers couldnt handle the emotional carnage caused by shooting civilians and children so the ss was formed to handle these assignments. soon though hitler decided this method was too innefficient and called for huge camps to be built to extend the killing to every jew. soon they dissappeared by the thousands every day never to be seen again. gas chambers were a favored method and quick but other methods could also be used. german scientists ran all sorts of unimaginably horrible tests on jews that could not be tried before. many millions of jews died by the end of the war. after the war at the nuremburg trials many were sentenced to death for participation in this.