AP European History / Unit 8: 20th-Century Global Conflicts
8.9 The Holocaust
Notes
Nazi Germany murdered about 6 million Jews and millions of others (Roma, disabled people, political prisoners). Steps: the Nuremberg Laws (1935), Kristallnacht (1938), ghettos, and death camps (the Final Solution, Wannsee Conference 1942).
Practice
The Nuremberg Laws (1935):
Legal persecution.
Kristallnacht (1938) was:
"Night of Broken Glass."
After the war, Nazi leaders were tried at:
War crimes trials.
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