To understand the Holocaust, you need to understand six words: definition, expropriation, einsatzgruppen, concentration, deportation and death camps. Germans define Jews biologically based on the religion of their grandparents. When the regime came to power in January 1933, part of the Nazi movement wanted to get rid of the Jews overnight, what they did was they started legislating against the Jews and quickly, Jews were expelled not only from public service but also from education. universities, teachers, lawyers and doctors. The Jews became something that was not needed. The culmination of this first legislative period was the Nuremberg Laws. The laws were there to officially determine citizenship in Germany, but the only definition given who was a citizen was a definition of who was not a citizen and the only people defined as non-German citizens were Jews. At other times in history, Jews could convert and hide while assimilating within the host country. However, according to the racial theory of the Nazi period, Jews were Jewish because of the blood that flowed in their veins. So the ultimate theory was that if you wanted to get rid of the Jews, you couldn't do it through conversion or any other means other than murdering them. The expropriation of the Jewish people began with the confiscation of Jewish wealth, the suppression of Jewish property, the registration of all rights, and the inability of Jews to own property. After the Jew was expelled, people moved into their homes and resumed their businesses. Between 1933 and 1939, 80% of Jewish property was seized, 50% of Jewish businesses were closed, and 50% of Jews were displaced. At the start of the war, in September 1939, there were not many Jews... middle of newspaper ......in the last months of the war, SS guards moved the camp inmates by train or on foot forced, often called "death marches", with the aim of preventing the Allied release of large numbers of prisoners. During the Holocaust, 17,500,000 victims were killed or displaced by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945. On July 24, 1994, the Russians liberated Liu Bolin in eastern Poland; just outside the city they find the concentration camp. The SS had attempted to kill the entire inmate and destroy all traces of the extermination factory, but a group of Polish resistance fighters seized the camp before they could complete their work. The gas chambers disguised as bathrooms and disinfection rooms were captured intact. The crematoriums, still littered with smoking human ashes, were only slightly damaged. Nearby, they found cabbage fields littered with fertilizer made from human bone meal. Auschwitz was less than one hundred and seventy miles away.