Notes
The Nuremburg Laws
Kristalnacht:
The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
Holocaust:
- 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
Kristalnacht:
- 9 November 1938
- Kristall (glass)
- Nacht (night)
- Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed
The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
- Histler's original idea as laid out in mien kampf
- Aryan 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
Holocaust:
- Holocaust prior to ww11 was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction 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 Majdanek
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust
Summary
With Hitler's new authority thanks to the Enabling Act, he began passing laws that forced Jews to register and identify themselves by wearing the Star of David. It started simply like this, and then soon became the forcing of Jews to leave their homes and jobs. Eventually, the Kristallnacht would occur, being the smashing of windows of Jewish businesses. Here, numerous Jews would be imprisoned. This was the true beginning of the Holocaust. Hitler soon came up with "The Final Solution." Believing in a superior Aryan race, as he had stated in Mein Kampf, he began the extermination of the Jewish Race. Originally, they were sent to work camps to carry out manual labour. In 1941, the Jewish race extermination project became a priority. Hitler soon decided that shooting and killing the Jews was not a fast enough solution, so concentration camps became a popular project. Gas chambers were created to exterminate large groups of Jews quickly. The bodies were burned to destroy the evidence, so it is difficult to say the exact number of Jews that were murdered during this time. The Holocaust made places like Auschwitz famous for their barbaric ways of extermination and murder utilized against the Jewish race during the second world war.
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"Where they burn books they will soon burn people"
-American Holocaust Museum
-American Holocaust Museum
Subjunctive Question
Could less appeasement of Hitler resulted in avoidance of the Holocaust?