24 3 The Holocaust 1933 Thousands of Jews
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24 -3: The Holocaust
1933: Thousands of Jews leave Germany Why didn’t France and Britain accept as many German Jews as they might have? • France and Britain didn’t want to fuel more feelings of anti-Semitism in their countries
1935: Nuremberg laws are passed What did the Nuremberg laws do? • Stripped Jews of their civil rights and property if they tried to leave Germany. • Deprived German Jews their citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and other Germans. • Forced Jews over 6 years of age to wear Jewish stars sewn to their clothing.
1938: Kristallnacht occurs What happened during Kristallnacht? • Kristallnacht = “Night of Broken Glass” • Gangs of Nazi storm troopers attack Jewish Homes, businesses and synagogues.
1939: U. S. Coast Guard prevents Jewish refugees on the St. Louis from landing in Miami Why didn’t the United States accept as many German Jews as it might have? • Widespread anti-Semitism • Desire to avoid greater competition for jobs during the Depression • Fear of “enemy agents”
1941: Nazis build 6 death camps in Poland What groups did the Nazis single out for extermination? • All non-Aryans, Jews, communists, socialists, liberals, gypsies, free masons, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally retarded, the insane, the disabled, the incurably ill, the Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians • The Nazi’s ultimate goal: to create an Aryan super race
On Back of Paper: • Genocide: Systematic and deliberate killing of an entire group/race of people • The “Final Solution” to what the Nazis called the “Jewish Problem” was Genocide of the Jews. Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. Gas chamber and crematorium II - the furnaces. SS photograph, 1943
1945 -1949: Nazi leaders are brought to justice for their crimes against humanity How did the Nazis go about exterminating the people who died in the Holocaust? • The Nazis shot, beat, starved, gassed and hanged their victims • They also worked them to death, injected them with poison, and deliberately killed them in grisly “medical experiments. ”
