How Did The Nazis Kill The Jews In The Holocaust?

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The Holocaust was a genocide of around 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis. This genocide took place in 1941-1945. The estimated number of deaths is 1.9 million Polish civilians. The Nazis targeted Polish people in the Holocaust using brutality driven by racial inferiority and the campaign of terror resulting in the destruction of the Polish people and their culture. The Poles persecution started in 1939 and Hitler's goal was to Germanize Poland by replacing the Poles with German colonists. The Germans launched a campaign of terror in which they intended to destroy the Polish nation and their culture. The Nazi military took over Poland on September 1st, 1939. Poland wasn't ready for this attack because Germany agreed not to invade them, but broke the agreement. The …show more content…
The Nazis constructed many laws targeting the Poles in order to fully isolate and identify them from the rest of society. Poles were forced to wear identifiable purple P’s sewn onto their clothing, which made it easy for them to see and understand who they were. They had a strictly enforced curfew, so they couldn't do a lot. Social and romantic relationships were forbidden, but could be subjected to the death penalty. The experiences of the Poles were very similar to that of the Jews as they were both targets of the Nazis cruel punishments. Both Jews and Poles were sent to concentration camps by the Nazis. The Nazis considered both parties “enemies of the state” and they realized that they needed to get rid of them. In the camps, they were victims of executions, medical experiments, disease, and starvation. The Nazis launched a lot of action against the Poles to eliminate or isolate them. In 1940 the Nazis launched AB-aktion, a plan to systematically eliminate the Poles which Nazis believed were capable of organized resistance against