Nazi policies towards the Jews including ghettos, death squads and the Final Solution

Nazi policies towards the Jews including ghettos, death squads and the Final Solution.

1. More and more Jews came under German control during World War 2 - and from 1940, Jewish people were to move into ghettos, which were separate districts of cities policed by armed guards in a walled in area. Ghetto conditions were terrible, and starvation and disease killed thousands.
2. During Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941, soldiers were ordered to kill every Jew they found in Russian towns and villages. Following the invasion, Nazi death squads, called "Einsatzgruppen", murdered more than a million Jews in eastern Europe.
3. The Final Solution was a plan by the Nazis that began in 1942, as a resort to destroy the Jewish people. This entailed death camps being built in Eastern Europe, and gas chambers included to achieve mass murder. Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was in overall charge of this "final solution".
4. Some of these death camps were: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno and Belzec.
5. By the end of the war, it is estimated that 6 million Jewish people had been killed by the Nazis.
6. Other groups that were also targeted during this time were Slavs, Romani people, black people, homosexuals, disabled people and communists - approximately 200,000 Romani people and 200,000 disabled people were killed during this time.