1. 6 million jews were killed
2. Nazi Germany had intended to spread the net of destruction much further.
3. Nazi is an abreviation for the German equilvilant of National Socialist German Worker's Party.
4. Adolf Hitler assumed leader of the party in 1921
5. During the Nazi regime, Germany was under a constant atmosphere of fear, distrust and suspicion.
6. The Nazis wanted to eliminate Jews and other communities that they thought believed that Germans were Aryans (a superior race).
7. In the 1930's the German's had exterminated countless handicapped Germans by lethal injection or poisonous gas.
8. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they employed mobile killing units-where they shot large countless numbers of Jews in open ravines and fields of conquered towns.
9. They established six extermination centers in occupied Poland and began the wholesale murder that now typifies all accounts of the Holocaust.
10. Millions of others died in these ghettos and concentration camps because of forced labor, starvation, exposure, brutality and disease.