Anti semitism and the Holocaust
- The Nuremburg Laws:
- 1933-39
- Anti-Jewish laws
- Forced to register and wear Star of David
- This turned into forcing jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage of Jews and non Jewish Germans
- Finally loss of citizenship
- Not only a German problem-worldwide
Summary: All Jews were forced to wear the Star of David, so non Jews can recognize them. They also took away all Jewish citizenships.
Kristallnacht
- November 9, 1938
- Many Jews imprisoned
- Bracking into Jewish shops
- Burning of Synagogs
- Burning Jewish Books
- Beating Jews up
Summary: The fascist groups destroyed Jewish shops, beat the jews up and imprisoned them.
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The Holocaust
- Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi Party
- Best dressed army outfitted by Hugo Boss
- Creation of the "Nordic Race" (Blue eyes, blonde hair)
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps
- July 1941-Final Solution=extermination of the Jewish race of priority
- Were very efficient in killing people
- Carried out by the Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S.
- Einsatzgruppen= all the prisons emptied of murders and rapists, used to kill
- Shooting and burying them was not fast enough
- Gas Chambers became popular, found by German Scientists
- Made famous places such as Auschwitz (2 million dead)
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- ALl prisions and chambers were out of Germany
- The first reports got to the west when the New York times got word that 100,000 jews had been machine gunned
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million died during the Holocaust
Summary: The Nazis first captured the Jews and make them slaves. They then took it a step further and killed them in masses by gunshot. But then that wasn't affective enough so they started to kill them in more effective gas chambers. All chambers were out of Germany, so German citizens were not as aware of what was going on. 6 million ended up dead.
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