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On October 5, 1938, Germany declared that all German passports held by Jews were invalid until they had were marked with a red "J" on the top of them. Then on August 1, 1938, a law was passed that said that by January 1, 1939 the Jewish men and women who didn't have "common Jewish names" were to add them to their names. Along with many other obligations the Jews also had to carry around identification cards, almost like a drivers licence or ID of today. It told their nationality, name, and age for the German soldiers to check. With all the laws being passed in Germany it only made the racist crisis against the Jewish even more evident to the people of Germany and the Jews.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 10 June 2014.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 10 June 2014.
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In the late 1930's the Germans began to experiment with poisonous gases for mass murders. The gas chambers were first used on the mentally ill and disabled Germans who the Nazis say were "unworthy of life". In the year 1941 the Germans began to get complaints from the Nazi soldiers that battle fatigue and the mental exhaustion from the mass shootings was to much to bear, which is when the Nazis put the gas to use on the Jews and the Gypsies. The gas chambers proved to be less expensive than shooting the victims, but the Nazis still wanted to find quicker and more efficient ways to kill. When the Nazis discovered that Zyklon B, previously used for fumigation, was the quickest gassing method they choose that to be the means of the mass killings in Auschwitz camp in Poland. At one point the Nazis were killing up to 6,000 Jews a day with the gas chambers just in Auschwitz alone.
"Gassing Operations." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 09 June 2014.
"Gassing Operations." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 09 June 2014.
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In 1938, Jews were classified by wearing a yellow star sewn onto their prison uniforms. By the time 1939 came around the categories of prisoners were distinguished from the colored inverted triangle with lettering. The badges sewn onto the uniforms were there for the soldiers to easily find the right people for incarceration. Criminals were marked with green inverted triangles while the political prisoners wore red and Gypsies with black, or sometimes brown, triangles. Some other ways the prisoners were identifies was that the Homosexuals wore pink triangles, the Jehovah's Witnesses wore purple ones, the Non-German prisoners wore the first letter of there country's name sewn onto their badges, while the Jews wore two triangles forming the Jewish star was formed by a yellow star and a color from one of the other categories mentioned above. For example, a Jewish criminal wore a yellow triangle beneath a green triangle.
"Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 10 June 2014.
"Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 10 June 2014.