All language subtitles for BBC Newsround - What was the Holocaust_ _ Newsround (720p).English

hitler introduced laws that limited
the freedoms of jews they were banned

from going to public places like cinemas and
shops and from traveling on public transport

when out in public jews were
ordered to wear a yellow star

a jewish religious symbol so that they
could be easily told apart from non-jews

the nazis told germans that those wearing
the star were enemies of the people

by 1938 hitler had developed a more extreme
policy and the nazis planned a night of

violence against jews called kristallnacht
attacks were made on shops and properties

owned by jewish people synagogues were burnt
down and some jewish people were murdered

during world war 2 nazi germany
invaded and conquered much of europe

which gave hitler the chance to impose
his racist plans on european jews

hitler ordered a rounding up of jews as well
as other groups he hated including gay people

roma gypsies and people with disabilities
they were arrested sent from their homes

and imprisoned in concentration camps where they
were forced into slave labour in inhuman conditions

the deaths of millions were
caused by starvation and disease

the nazis designed everything so that

concentration camps would be
places of immense suffering

inmates were faced with horrendous overcrowding
and were made to share tiered wooden bunk beds

up to 12 of them were crammed into each
bunk with hundreds of people in each room

conditions were so dirty that
infestations of rats were the norm

washing and toilet facilities
were limited or non-existent

so in these overcrowded squalid conditions
disease spread easily amongst the prisoners

hunger was an even greater problem the nazis fed
inmates barely enough food to keep them alive

meals would be a piece of bread or perhaps
a watery soup made from vegetable peelings

those fit enough to survive these conditions were
forced into hard manual labour those not fit enough

to work would be killed millions died because
of the brutality of life in concentration camps

but the nazis built other camps
known as extermination or death camps

in these they deliberately
murdered millions of people