It's the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, but a recent poll says only 45 percent of Americans know 6 million Jewish people died during the Holocaust.
Only 45 percent of people accurately selected"approximately six million" when asked how many Jews were killed, while 29 percent were unsure. Meanwhile, 12 percent underestimated the death toll by half, and 12 percent overestimated it by double.
On January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. After Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg, who issued the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending constitutional protections, died in 1934, Hitler became president. After abolishing the presidency, he became absolute dictator of Germany.On April 1, 1933, a general boycott against German Jews was declared, according to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
A visitor at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem looks at uniforms worn by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.Beginning on the night of November 9, 1938, a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms took place, a time known as Kristallnacht. People damaged an estimated 7,500 Jewish-owned homes, schools and businesses and burned synagogues in Germany, Austria and Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
Upon arrival at concentration camps, prisoners were stripped of their belongings, issued ill-fitting uniforms and an identification number that was often tattooed onto their forearm.Read more In total, 6 million European Jews, about two-thirds of the Jewish population at the time, were killed during the Holocaust.From 1939 until 1942, Hitler's forces took control of most of Europe, with some invasions lasting only weeks.
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