372: The Road to the Holocaust


Mauthausen concentration camp laborers carrying large stone blocks out of the quarry along the “Stair of Death.”

When the Nazis came to power in Germany, the SS began building concentration camps. Those held there were mostly ethnic Germans until 1938, hardly any of whom were Jewish.

Imprisonment of Jewish Germans simply for being Jewish did not begin until 1938. After the fall of Poland in 1939, the Nazis began the policy of “extermination through labor.”

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