2. 1933: 522,000 Jews in Germany
After 6 years: 304,000
Drastic changes
Legislative
Economic
Social
3. Why Hitler was strongly anti-Semitic
First thoughts in 1919
Already present in
many parts of Europe
“Jews had caused
Germany's defeat in W orld
W ar I ”
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unemployment of
4. Nazi Ideologies
A. Commonly
associated with
Fascism
B. Social Dawarnism
i) Anti-Semitism
ii) Superiority of
Aryans
C. Anti-Communism;
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Rejection of
Democracy
5. ...
D. Fuhrer
E. Lebensraum
F. “Strong” Germany
i. Revenge Treaty of
Versailles
G. Autarky
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6. Kristallnacht
From November 9th >> Morning of
November 10th
October 28, 1938: 17,000 Polish
Jews expelled from Germany
Synagogues, Schools, Homes,
Businesses, Shops, Cemeteries,
Hospitals
A dozen killed; 30,000 arrested and
sent to concentration camps >> $400,000,000 fine & forced to clean
guilty of being Jew and repair the SA damages
Not allowed to enter:
museums, public places
(playgrounds, swimming pools,
schools etc...)
Many attempted to flee
7. 1935; The Nuremberg Laws
Law 1: “T he L aw for P rotection of German B lood and
German H onor”
Jews were forbidden to marry with Aryans
Law 2: “T he R eich C itizenship L aw”
Jews were immediately deprived of the
German citizenship; “strangers”
Jewish
3 Jewish grandparents
Mischlinge
1°: 2 Jewish grandparents
2°: 1 Jewish grandparent
Aryan
Blonde hair, blue eyes; Germanic heritage
9. Shoah in Hebrew The
January 30, 1933 (Hitler became
Chancellor) >> May 8, 1945 (end of
Holocaust
World War Two)
6,000,000 murdered
- 1,5 million children
5,000 communities destroyed
1/3 of worldwide Jewish population
murdered
SA: undermined the German Democracy
Gestapo: professional police officers
SS: personal bodyguards; control over
Concentration Camps
SD: find the states' enemies and keep them
10. Concentratio
n Camps
“C amps in which people are detained or
confined, usually under harsh
conditions and without regard to legal
norms of arrest and imprisonment
that are acceptable in a constitutional
democracy”
Political opponents
Forced laborers
SS <-- the only authorized to manage
the concentration camps
Undernourished prisoners
Mistreated prisoners
Soldiers working at the camps >>
11. The Final Solution
Aim: conenctrate and then
annihilate all European Jews
-Ghettos
Einsatzgruppen (SS + Police)
- shooting
- gas vans
- starvation
- disease
January 1942: Wannsee
Conference
- discuss and coordinate the
implementation of “Final
Solution”