The Holocaust was the ____ persecution and murder of millions of Jewish ____ by the Nazi Party. The Nazis believed that ____ Germans were superior to all other people. They launched a devastating ____ against people they considered to be inferior to them. These were mainly European Jews. However, the Nazis also ____ other groups like the Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, ____ people and gay people. Adolf Hitler was the ____ of Germany’s Nazi Party. He led this ____ of hatred. Beginning with Hitler’s rise to ____ in 1933, the Nazi Party made ____ against Jewish people a part of German law. This legalized prejudice led to the ____ of millions of people during World War II. The Holocaust was not one single and random act of ____. It was carefully ____ and orchestrated over a span of years. It happened because the German ____ created policies to persecute whole groups of people. These policies stripped people of ____ rights. They made inequality legal. And the majority of ____ that were not directly affected by these laws did not ____ them. So German society normalized ____. This eventually led to outbreaks of violence and ultimately the mass ____ of millions of Jewish people during World War II. It’s important to study and ____ these horrific events and to ____ that they happened in part because people did not stand to ____ those who were being ____. After the end of the First World War, Germany faced serious ____. Many Germans were upset that their country had been ____. They were angry that the new government, the Weimar Republic, took the blame for the war and accepted the ____ of Versailles. This treaty crippled Germany’s economy. The Nazi Party ____ power because many Germans felt ____. The Nazi Party was made up of ____ German nationalists, many of whom were obsessed with ____ purity. They believed that Aryan people of pure German descent were ____ to others. The Nazi Party gained power and support because of its focus on ____ excellence. Hitler, the head of the Nazi ____, portrayed himself as a strong ____ who could bring wealth and power back to Germany. Germans ____ him because they felt Hitler could restore Germany as a ____ in Europe. Hitler was elected ____ in 1933. By the following year, Hitler and the Nazi Party had created a ____ called the Third Reich. Hitler now ruled Germany with absolute ____. As Hitler solidified his power in Germany, he began to restrict the ____ of Jewish people. The Nazi Party believed that all non-Aryans, but especially Jewish people, were inferior. Many Germans believed Jewish people actually benefited from Germany’s failures after World War I. So the Nazis used harsh ____ laws to make life ____ for Jews. The Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935. These laws inaccurately defined Judaism as a race and stripped Jewish people of basic ____ rights. Jews were no longer considered ____ in Germany. In the subsequent years, Jews were ____ from public spaces like parks, restaurants and theaters. Many Jewish ____ were not allowed to attend German ____. Germans ____ Jewish shops. Therefore, many shops closed, leaving Jewish families without any source of ____. Jewish people were also forced to wear ____ Star of David badges at all times to ____ themselves as Jews. In 1939, after Germany’s ____ of Poland, World War II started. The Nazis then began to force Jewish people into ____. These were parts of cities that were sectioned off with walls and barbed wire to ____ Jews from the rest of the population. At this point, Jewish people had lost most of their ____. They would face darker horrors when Nazis began deportations to the ____ camps. Starting in 1941 and 1942, Nazi authorities began to ____ Jewish people en masse to concentration ____. Jews from all parts of Nazi-occupied Europe were packed into trains and ____ to camps located in Germany and Poland. The Nazis' “Final ____ was their “answer” to the “Jewish question;” that is, the ____ mass murder of European Jews and others they deemed inferior. Upon ____ at these camps, Jewish people became ____. Nazi officers took away their clothes and belongings, shaved their heads and tattooed identification ____ on their arms. Conditions in the camps were ____. Prisoners who were too old or young to work were ____. Some prisoners were also subject to medical ____ that was often lethal. By the end of the World War II, the Nazis had ____ millions of innocent men, women and children. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in ____. They also killed five million other people including Roma people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, disabled people, gay people and political ____ of the Nazis. When Soviet, British and American forces ____ concentration camps and death camps in 1945, the true ____ of the Nazi regime were fully exposed. Thousands of Jewish survivors were ____, but they suffered from starvation and disease and many still died. Of those who survived, most had no ____ to return to; they had been destroyed in the war. Jewish refugees ____ to rebuild their lives. Many were forced to ____ to western Europe, North America and South America and begin anew. Following the Holocaust, ____ courts had trials to hold Nazi war criminals accountable for the genocide. Adolf Hitler, the mastermind of the war and ____, was never brought to trial. He committed ____ towards the end of the war. An international court tried 22 high-ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg ____ from 1945 to 1946. Of that group, 12 Nazi officials were charged with crimes against ____. They were put to death. However, many Nazis ____ trial and went on to live relatively normal lives without facing the ____ for their ____ in the war.

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