Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
Notes
-Nuremburg Laws: 1933-39, Anti-Jewish laws
-Forced jews to register and wear a Star of David
-Eventually jews were forced out of careers and homes
-Prohibited marriage between Jews and non Jews in Germany
-Eventually they lost citizenship
-Kristallnacht: November 9th 1928
-Jewish shops and synagogues were burnt
-Many Jews imprisoned
-State sanctioned event
-Josef Goebbels was the propaganda minister
-He promoted all the ideals of nazism
-Nuremberg rallies were mass rallies for army and citizens were key in implementing nazism
-The final solution was Hitler's push to eliminate jews in 1941
-Work camps, killing squads (Special SS: Einsatzgruppen), gas chambers
-The first camp was liberated in 1944
-Estimated 6 million dead
-1945 Auschwitz was discovered
-In 1942 first reports to the west came. New york times report 100,000 Jews had been killed in the Baltics
-Nuremburg Laws: 1933-39, Anti-Jewish laws
-Forced jews to register and wear a Star of David
-Eventually jews were forced out of careers and homes
-Prohibited marriage between Jews and non Jews in Germany
-Eventually they lost citizenship
-Kristallnacht: November 9th 1928
-Jewish shops and synagogues were burnt
-Many Jews imprisoned
-State sanctioned event
-Josef Goebbels was the propaganda minister
-He promoted all the ideals of nazism
-Nuremberg rallies were mass rallies for army and citizens were key in implementing nazism
-The final solution was Hitler's push to eliminate jews in 1941
-Work camps, killing squads (Special SS: Einsatzgruppen), gas chambers
-The first camp was liberated in 1944
-Estimated 6 million dead
-1945 Auschwitz was discovered
-In 1942 first reports to the west came. New york times report 100,000 Jews had been killed in the Baltics
Political Cartoon
Quote
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
David Novak
Adolf Hitler
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
David Novak
Subjunctive Question
What could've been done to avoid the holocaust? If Hitler used less appeasement could it have been avoided?
Summary
- The Nuremburg laws were created by Hitler in 1933 until 1939 decreasing their rights. Hitler finished off the extermination of jews through the final solution which consisted of work camps, gas chambers and killing squads