Nazis,
Jews and the
Holocaust
By: Oona B.P, Federico Franco, Jonathan Rossi
1933: 522,000 Jews in Germany
After 6 years: 304,000
Drastic changesLegislative
Economic
Social
Why Hitler was strongly anti-Semitic
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First thoughts in 1919
Already present in many parts of Europe
Jews had caused Germany's defeat in World War I
Rich bankers >> unemployment of aryan Germans
Nazi Ideologies
A. Commonly associated with FascismB. Social Dawarnism i)
Anti-Semitism ii) Superiority of AryansC. Anti-Communism; Rejection
of Democracy
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D. FuhrerE. LebensraumF. Strong Germany i. Revenge Treaty of
VersaillesG. Autarky
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Kristallnacht
From November 9th >> Morning of November 10th
October 28, 1938: 17,000 Polish Jews expelled from Germany
Synagogues, Schools, Homes, Businesses, Shops, Cemeteries,
Hospitals
A dozen killed; 30,000 arrested and sent to concentration camps
>> guilty of being Jew
$400,000,000 fine & forced to clean and repair the SA
damages
Not allowed to enter:museums, public places (playgrounds,
swimming pools, schools etc...)
Many attempted to flee
1935; The Nuremberg Laws
Law 1: The Law for Protection of German Blood and German
HonorJews were forbidden to marry with Aryans
Law 2: The Reich Citizenship LawJews were immediately deprived
of the German citizenship; strangers
Jewish3 Jewish grandparents
Mischlinge1: 2 Jewish grandparents
2: 1 Jewish grandparent
AryanBlonde hair, blue eyes; Germanic heritage
No human rights left to the Jews
Nazi Chart
The
Holocaust
Shoah in Hebrew
January 30, 1933 (Hitler became Chancellor) >> May 8, 1945
(end of World War Two)
6,000,000 murdered - 1,5 million children
5,000 communities destroyed
1/3 of worldwide Jewish population murdered
SA: undermined the German Democracy
Gestapo: professional police officers
SS: personal bodyguards; control over Concentration Camps
SD: find the states' enemies and keep them under
surveillance
Concentration Camps
SS > Death Head-Unit
Camps in which people are detained or confined, usually under
harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and
imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy
Political opponents
Forced laborers
The Final Solution
Aim: conenctrate and then annihilate all European
Jews-Ghettos
Einsatzgruppen (SS + Police)- shooting- gas vans- starvation-
disease
January 1942: Wannsee Conference- discuss and coordinate the
implementation of Final Solution- Jews from: Ireland, Sweden,
Turkey, Great Britain
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