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• Schutzstaffel = Security Squadron (SS)
–Rounded up the Jews
•HOLOCAUST–The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, ½ were Jews
–RACIAL PURITY
• JEWS TARGETED (543)– Jews were not the only
victims of the Holocaust, but they were the main targets of the Nazis
– Anti-Semitism = hatred of Jews
– Hitler said the Jews were responsible for Germany’s economic problems and Germany’s defeat after WWI
• JEWS TARGETED (con’t)–Nuremberg Laws –
stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property
– Jews had to wear bright yellow Star of David
• Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass” (543)–November 9-10, 1938–Nazi storm troopers
attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
–Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction
• A FLOOD OF JEWISH REFUGEES (543-544)– Jews fleeing Germany had
trouble finding nations to accept them
– France said NO– Britain said NO– USA said NO because
Americans worried that Jews would take their Jobs
– Also, Americans worried that the Jews were “enemy agents”
• THE PLIGHT OF THE ST. LOUIS (544)– St. Louis was a German
ocean liner•The St. Louis brought Jews to America but America refused and told them to go back to Europe
•When the ship got back to Europe ½ of the passengers were killed in the Holocaust
• THE FINAL SOLUTION–Genocide – the killing
of all Jews in EUROPE not just in Germany
• THE CONDEMNED (545)– Jews–Communists,
socialists, liberals–Anyone who spoke
out against the German Government
• THE CONDEMNED (con’t)– Gypies – Nazis said they
were an inferior race– Freemasons – Nazis said
they were part of the “Jewish Conspiracy” to rule the world
– Jehovah’s Witnesses – would not join German army or salute Hitler
• THE CONDEMNED (con’t)– Homosexuals,
mentally ill, incurably ill, and the physically disabled•Hitler felt the above groups were unfit for the master “Aryan Race”
• FORCED RELOCATION (545)– Jews were ordered
to live in the ghettos•The ghettos were sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls
• CONCENTRATION CAMPS (546)– They were labor camps– Families were
separated– Those put in the camps
worked from dawn to dusk
– If you were too weak to work you were killed
• Concentration Camps–Murder by
poison gas started in 1942
• MASS EXTERMINATIONS (547-548)– Germans built six death
camps in Poland– Auschwitz was the largest
death camp– USED
•Poison Gas, 12,000 killed a day
•You were shot, hanged, or injected with poisonous gas
•Medical Experiments were performed on the Jews
• THE SURVIVORS (549)–Roughly six million
Jews died in the death camps
–Some Jews escaped through the help of ordinary people who were appalled by the Nazis