Anti Semitism and the Holocaust 

The Nuremburg Laws 
  • 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 for Jews 

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- Mass Rallies 
  •     Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party
  •     He organized mass rallies for the people of Germany and the army 
  •     Nuremberg was a night rally and it was the most famous
  •     Effected all aspects of German life
  •     They promoted :
                      1) Aryan Race 
                      2) Anti-Semitism 
                      3) Anti-Communism
                      4) Lebensraum (living space in the east)
                   

The Aryan Race and the Final Solution 
  •      Hitler’s original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
  •      Aryan (Nordic race) 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 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

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Adolf Hitler
Subjunctive question: How did Hitler have the guts to do what he did?
Quotes: "Great Liars are also great magicians."- Hitler 
Summary: Hitler created many laws that discriminated against Jews. He had them sent to camps. Firstly, working camps then death camps with an end goal to exterminate them. He truly has a large amount of hatred against Jews and they were put through Hell. He erased as many Jews as he could by using gas chambers because the original idea of shooting them was not fast enough.