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In all there were 12 rallies from 1923 to 1939. The first of the rallies was held in Munich, Germany in 1923 and after 1926 the rallies were held exclusively in Nuremburg. The party selected Nuremberg for pragmatic reasons as it lay in the center of the German Reich. After 1933 the Nuremberg Rallies took place around the times of the autumn equinox, under the title of the “National Congress of the Part of the German People”. At the height of the rallies participation of the German people reached over half a million German people.
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“The Night of Broken Glass” or Kristallnacht in German was a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on November 9th and 10th 1938 perpetrated by non-Jewish civilians and SA paramilitary forces. The name comes from the many shards of broken glass that littered the street after Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues had their windows smashed. During the two days no fewer than 91 Jewish were killed, and 30,000 were arrested and detained in concentration
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During WWII ghettos were set up in Nazi-occupied Europe by Nazi Germany in order to segregate Jew and Gypsies within a tightly packed area within a city. These ghettos varied in from open ghettos, closed or sealed areas and destruction for extermination ghettos. Soon after the invasion of Poland the first ghetto was setup in Piotrkow Trybunalski. Living conditions were brutal at best in some instances 700 people were forced to live in an area previously occupied by 5 families, which equates to between 12 and 30 people per room.
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Prisoners were transported from all over Germany-occupied Europe by rail, arriving in daily convoys by rail. By July 1942, the SS were conducting “selection”. Incoming Jews were segregated; those deemed able to work were sent to the right and admitted in the camp, and those deemed unfit for labor were sent to the left and immediately gassed. Those selected to die almost three quarters of the total, included almost all children, women with small children, all the elderly and all those who appeared not to be completely fit.
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In December of 1941, Hitler resolved that the Jewish Europeans were to be exterminated. Plans for the total eradication of the Jewish population of Europe, (11 million people) were formalized at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. Some were worked to death and the rest would be killed. Initially the victims were killed with gas vans or by firing squads, but these methods proved impractical for and operation on this scale. By 1942, killing centers at Auschwitz and other Nazi exterimination camps replaced the firing squads as the primary method of mass killing.