INTRODUCTION TO ANTI -SEMITISM AND THE BEGINNINGS

OF EXTERMINATION.

MAIN DEBATES IN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL

HOLOCAUST

What are the arguments on why Hitler proceeded to commit genocide?

Intentionalism- Hitler intended to murder all Jews from an early date.

Functionalism/Structuralism- The murder of European Jewry was a function of the Nazi State’s structure

PHASE S O F NAZI ANTI -SEM IT IC PO LICY

Phase 1- Legal persecution and exclusion from German society (1933-1938).

Phase 2- Forced emigration and expansion of the Judenfrage (1938-1941).

Phase 3- Extermination of European Jewry (1942-1945).

PHASE I

Legal ways in which the Nazi regime persecuted Jewry.

Minor:

April boycott (1933).

Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service, 1933.

PHASE I CONTINUED

The major law in which instituted Jewish discrimination

The Nuremberg Laws (1935).

Two degrees of considering who was a Jew, called Mischling.

Does this sound familiar towards anything done in any other countries?

PHASE II

Forced emigration and expansion of the Judenfrage.

Flight tax implemented called, reichsfluchtstuer..

Laws on names were made to identify Jews (1938).

Jewish passports with stamps.

PHASE II CONTINUED

What event ushered in the 2nd phase of Nazi persecution of Jews?

The Kristallnacht that took place 11/91938.

Outbreak of war impacts Nazi Jewish policy.

Quota systems placed on the Jews, making it hard to escape and flee from war and persecution.

PHASE III

Extermination of European Jewry .

Jews are forced to move into Ghettos.

Conditions in Ghettos are horrible.

What happened in these Ghettos?

Ghettos administered through Schenllbrief.

PHASE III CONTINUED

Extermination & eugenics program performed on all unwanted people or attributes.

Operations and decrees make mass killings legal in Germany.

Code name T4 implemented.

Operation Barbarossa implemented.

OPERATION BARBAROSSA

The new policy which Operation Barbarossa instated made it easy for Nazi Germany to round up all Jews and start committing mass murder.

Why would the Nazis make the decision to murder all the Jews?

Those who would round up the Jews were called the Einsatzgruppen.

CONCLUSION

The Jewish community went through stages of persecution starting with legal rights to persecute, emigration, and then extermination.

Hitler believed he could get away with it, used the cover of war to cloud intentions.

More than 5 million individuals are killed because of decrees and policy.