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Anti-Semitism / Stages of the Holocaust

World History

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History of Anti-Semitism• Cultural differences made the Jews

standout• Jews generally lived in close-knit

communities• Have been demonized,

discriminated against by Christians for 2000 years

• Christianity needed Judaism as a contrast - to make Christianity look better, to act as a scapegoat

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History of Anti-Semitism• 30 CE - Christ is killed.• 325 CE - Christianity becomes

official religion of the Roman Empire. Jews negatively portrayed.

• 5th-7th Centuries - Violence escalates

• Middle Ages - Jews less than human, killed in the Crusades, demonized, blamed for Black Death

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History of Anti-Semitism• Renaissance/Reformation - Jews

had to wear badges or cones on head, in Italy and Germany they were separated into ghettos

• Spanish Inquisition• 17th-18th Century tensions eased

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Anti-Semitism in Germany• .08% of population (~500,000)• Fully integrated into Germany

society• Supported WWI and the German

Empire• Mostly lived in large cities

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Anti-Semitism in Germany• Hitler blamed Jews/Marxists for

loss of WWI• The Aryan Race - “Pure Germans”

superior• Incorrectly names Jews as a race• Struggle for world domination• History and biology changed to

match anti-Semitic views

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Boycott of Jewish Businesses

• 1933 - Germany• Sets up idea that

Jews are not Germans and isolates them

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SA pickets, wearing boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. The signs read: "Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German shops!" and "Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!"

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Two Nazi stormtroopers stand guard in front of the H. L. Heimann store in Bopfingen, to prevent would-be shoppers from violating the Nazi boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.

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Nuremberg Laws• Germany - 1935• Defined who was a

Jew• Deprived Jews of

political rights

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Kristallnacht• 1938 - Germany• “Night of the Broken Glass”• Organized violence against Jews

throughout Germany and Austria

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The fire department only made sure the fire did not spread to the building next to the synagogue

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View of the interior of the Essenweinstrasse synagogue in Nuremberg following its destruction during Kristallnacht.

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Ghettos• 1939-45 - German occupied

territories• Small areas of a city where Jews

were isolated

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Deportations• 1939-1945 - Throughout Europe• Movement of Jews to ghettos and

then to camps

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Jews board a deportation train at the railroad station in Würzburg.

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Hundreds of Jews wait to board deportation trains at the railroad station in Würzburg. Their luggage and bed rolls are piled in the center of the platform.

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Jews from the Lodz ghetto board deportation trains for the Chelmno death camp

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Camps• 1939-1945 - Throughout Europe• Different types: labor camps,

concentration camps, and death camps

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“Work makes one free”

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Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. Germany, April 1945.

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Liberation• 1944-45 - Throughout Europe• Allies liberate camps

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