Holocaust global

Events leading economically

Germany faced great economic hardship like unemployment.

Events leading - leader wise

The nazi party planned to rebirth the economy and rise to power with Adolf Hitler.

Actual event that led to genocide

Hitler called for boycott of Jewish business - Nazi soldiers stood outside Jewish-owned shops and painted stars on windows, blocked doors, and held signs telling people not to buy from Jews.

Events of genocide mainly

Built concentration camps and traveling killing squads. As well as killed multiple jews and starved them.

Events of genocide to eliminate prisoners

Hitler wanted to eliminate prisoners to avoid a large numbers of prisoners from the allies by making multiple of prisoners to walk miles through harsh conditions.

US response at first

The US at first ignored the genocide because of Hitlers popularity and political success. They were also recovering from the Great Depression.

US response from president

President FDR (Franklin Roosevelt) couldn’t go after Hitler because of domestic political opinion, which technically is the public opinion, because it’s the people’s opinions from inside the country.

International Community Response

The world stated that this genocide would never happen again. They ended up signing the genocide convention - a law made by the United Nations, to stop genocide from ever happening, and punishing whoever does it.