Anti-seminism and the Holocaust
The Nuremburg Laws
Kristallnacht
Propaganda
The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
The Holocaust
- 1933-39
- Anti-Jewish Laws
- Forced jews to register and wear Star of David
- This turned into forcing Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jews and non Jewish Germans
- Finally loss of citizenship
Kristallnacht
- 9 november 1938
- Kristall (glass)
- Nacht (night)
- Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned
- Many Jews imprisoned
- State sanctioned event
Propaganda
- Josef Geobbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the nazi party
- Effected all aspects of German Life
The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
- Aryan thought to be superior beings
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour
- July 1941 final solution = extermination of the Jewish race of a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S.
- Shooting and burying them was not fast enough
- Gas chambers became the popular
- Made famous places such as Auschwitz
The Holocaust
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- The first reports to the west came in Jan. of 1942 when the New York Times reported 100,000 jews had been machine gunned in Baltic States
- July 1944 allied powers got their first eye witness accounts
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is believed that up to 6 million jews died during the Holocaust
“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example."
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
FACT: The definition of holocaust is "a Jewish sacrificial offering which was burnt completely on an altar."
Subjunctive Question
If everyone was aware of what was going on in and around germany would the Holocaust have gone on for as long as it did?
Summary
The Holocaust started with the Numberg laws which slowly took away the Jews citizenship and eventually led to the genocide of the jews which was called the final solution.