Anti Semitism
Prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The Holocaust, the state - sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany.
Nazis built upon centuries of anti -Jewish sentiment - religious, economic, and political - but viewed the Jews as a separate and dangerous "race".
Kristallnacht
On the night of November 9, 1938, the Nazis destroyed synagogues synagogues and the shop windows of Jewish - owned stores throughout Germany and Austria (Night of Broken Glass)
Destruction, which genocide would become the singular focus of Nazis antisemitism.
Ghettos
The creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying were forced where living conditions were miserable.
Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non - Jewish population.
"Final Solution"
The Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" was the deliberate murder of European Jews in 1941 and 1945.
They murdered Jews by implementing policies that led to starvation; disease; random acts of terror; and mass shootings and gassing.
Nuremberg Trials
In August 1945, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the US signed the London Agreement and Charter (also called the Nuremberg) try major German war criminals.
It assigned jurisdiction over crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, which include such crimes as "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation ... or religious grounds".