The Holocaust AntiSemitism and Conspiracy Theory AntiSemitism Jews

The Holocaust Anti-Semitism, and Conspiracy Theory

Anti-Semitism �Jews faced prejudice and discrimination throughout history � Romans drove them from Israel �Outsiders �Economically restricted �Money lenders �Scapegoats � Black Death

Anti-Semitism � 1800 s new ideas of freedom and equality spread, but so did ideas of white supremacy �Jews classified as Semites � People who share common blood and physical features � Jewish by race not religion �Anti-Semitism popularized by Karl Laeger (1844 -1910) � A politician � Influenced Adolf Hitler

The Holocaust: The Rise of Hitler � WWI loss, depression, weak government � mesmerizing speaker � Supported by the unemployed, young people, lower middle class � Part of the National Social German Workers Party � January 1933 appointed Chancellor of Germany

The Holocaust: The Rise of Hitler �Dictatorship �Ended Individual Freedom �Tens of thousands of young people joined him � Storm Troops or SA �Controlled all types of communication � Burned books �All Quiet on the Western Front � Rewrote textbooks �Jewish businesses were boycotted

Storm Troopers “The Poisonous Mushroom”

Passport of a Jewish person stamped with a “J” for “Jude. ”

The Holocaust: The Beginning �Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire” �Purity of the German race � Aryan �Did not want inferiors to reproduce �Jewish people viewed as a race that lived off other races and weakened them � Evil � Inferior � Threat to German Superiority �Gypsies, disabled, Slavic people, and anyone whose behavior was not a social norm were killed as well

Racial Hygienist “The Biology of Growth” “Stages of Growth of Members of the Nordic Race”

The Holocaust: Concentration Camps � 20, 000 camps �Labor, transit, and extermination �Dies from exhaustion and starvation �Gas chambers � Auschwitz had 6 gas chambers � Killed 6, 000 a day � http: //video. search. yahoo. com/search/video; _ylt=A 0 o. G 7 j 0 jzlt. PMEUAblx. XNyo. A? p=opra h%20 holocaust%20 survivor&fr=fptb-msgr-s&fr 2=piv-web “Work makes one free”

The Holocaust: The End �Final Solution �Death Marches � Movement of prisoners due to Allied attacks and fear of liberation � Continued until May 7, 1945 �Survivors � Displaced Persons Camps (DP) � 700, 000 emigrated to Israel � Some went to US �Total of 6 million dead, two out of every three Jewish persons

References �All pictures and data credited to: �United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2011, January 5). Introduction to the holocaust. Retrieved from http: //www. ushmm. org/wlc/en/article. php? Module. Id =10005143