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| Not only Jews fell victim to the nazis. More ethnic groups were regarded as 'Untermenschen" and persecuted because of this. |
| 1 | Ahnenerbe [Edit] | Persecution |
|  A society founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, for the purpose of proving the superiority of Germans through "scientific" experiments. Headed by Sigmund Rascher, German doctors murdered Jews, Germans, Russians and Poles through freezing and high altitude experiments, and by poisoning them to collect their skulls. |
| 2 | Aktion 1005 [Edit] | Persecution |
|  AKTION 1005: Plan, ordered by Gestapo head, Heinrich Muller to hide all traces of the murder of millions of human beings. SS leader, Paul Blobel, began burning corpses and planting over mass graves in the summer 1942. Jewish prisoners did this work and often escaped. AKTION 1005 was an early effort to deny the Holocaust. |
| 3 | Aktion Francaise [Edit] | Persecution |
| AKTION FRANCAISE: An extreme French anti-Semitic organization which believed that Jews threatened France. Under the German Occupation, Aktion Francaise helped the Nazis apply the anti-Semitic laws of 1940. After the war, its leader Charles Maurras, was sentenced to life in prison for helping the Nazis. |
| 4 | Aktion Reinhard [Edit] | Persecution |
|  AKTION REINHARD: Plan to kill Jews in the five districts under Germany's control in Eastern Europe from 1942-1943. This included: Setting up the death camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, deporting Jews by railway to camps, killing them by poison gas and burning their bodies. More than 2 million Jews were killed in this "Aktion." |
| 5 | Anti Jewish boycot [Edit] | Persecution |
|  BOYCOTT, ANTI-JEWISH: Action against German Jews on April 1, 1933, initiated by Goebbels and headed by Julius Streicher. Declared as a warning to the world to cease anti-Nazi propaganda, entry to all Jewish enterprises was forcibly blocked. Lasting 1 day, probably due to world protest, the boycott preceded "legitimate" acts of terror. |
| 6 | Anti Jewish legislation [Edit] | Persecution |
|  From 1933 to 1943 some 2,000 anti-Jewish laws were passed and enforced in Nazi Germany. Jews were barred from schools and professions, deprived of citizenship, and forbidden all contact with Germans. Finally, they were stripped of all property, forced into ghettos and forbidden to emigrate. |
| 7 | Aryan Claus [Edit] | Persecution |
|  The "Aryan Clause", (Arierparagraph), was a regulation which forbade Jews from being members in German political parties, economic groups and social and student clubs. This rule, which had been applied in many groups before the Nazis' rise to power, became official German Law when the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were passed. |
| 8 | Aryanization [Edit] | Persecution |
|  Aryanization, (Arisierung), was the process of transferring Jewish businesses to German control and took place from 1930-1938. The Nazi regime pressured, boycotted and used various forms of persuasion, force and terror to convince Jewish owners to sell their businesses (at a fraction of their value) to Germans |
| 9 | Auschwitz protocols [Edit] | Persecution |
|  These were two detailed reports of the mass killings in Auschwitz which were based on eye-witness accounts from two escapees. These reports, first sent to Rescue Organizations in Europe, reached the U.S. State Department by June 16,1944. The reports made clear to the free world, the true purpose of Auschwitz. |
| 10 | Children with a Star [Edit] | Persecution |
|  The children with a yellow star lived and died during the dark years of the Holocaust, victims of the Nazi regime. |
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