The Nuremburg Laws
- 1933-1939
- 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
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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
- Stare sanctioned event
Propaganda, Lebensraum and Mass Rallies
- Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party
- Effected all aspects of German life
- Promoted:
- Aryan Race
- Anti-Semitism
- Anti-COmmunism
- Lebensraum (living space in the east)
- Organized mass events
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach." -Hitler
The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
- Hitler's original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
- Aryan (Nordic race) thought to be auperior beings
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
- Originally Jews were went to work camps to do manual labour
- July 1941 final solution= extermination of the Jewish race a priory
- 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 place such as Auschwitz 1942
The Holocaust
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destructing by fire
- The first reports to the west came in Jan. of 1942 when the New York Times reported 100, 000 Jews had been machine gunned in the Baltic states
- July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the Soviets liberated a camp called Majddanek
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust
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SUMMARY
Hitler made concentration camps for the Jews which was originally for hard labor, but then eventually turned out to be a place of Genocide. Hitler killed up to 6 million people during the Holocaust.