10 things you don’t know about the holocaust

1. Hitler offered to let the United States, Great Britain, and 30 other countries to take in Jewish refugees, but they refused.

2. A high number of both Christians and Jews were killed during the Holocaust

3. Hitler planned to open a "Museum of an Extinct Race" after the war
4. In 1945, President Eisenhower urged the press to document the Holocaust, correctly predicting that people would one day deny it happened.
5.Leica Camera Company saved the lives of hundreds of Jews by hiring them for jobs abroad.
6.Two Polish doctors saved the lives of 8,000 Jews by faking a typhoid outbreak.
7.The pest control company that created Zyklon B., the gas used to exterminate millions during the Holocaust, still exists to this day.
8. A female prisoner of Auschwitz owes her life to an affair with a Nazi.
9. Three days after Hitler's suicide, allied forces accidentally sunk several German ships, killing nearly 10,000 concentration camp survivors on board.
10. The Nazi officer who captured Anne Frank and her family later bought her diary to "see if [he] was mentioned."
Honorific mention: If we keep a minute in silence for every jew that died we would be silent for 11 years.

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