Notes
- 1933-39
- Anti-Jewish laws
- Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David
- This turned in to forcing Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans
- Finally loss of citizenship
- 9 november 1928
- Kistall (glass)
- Nacht (night)
- Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burred
- Many Jews imprisoned
- State sanctioned event
- Josef Goebbels the propaganda ministers, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party
- Effected all aspects of German life
- Promoted:
- Aryan Race
- Anti-Semitism
- Anti-Communism
- Leberensraum (living space in the east
- Organized mass rallies for army and citizens
- Nuremburg night rallies the most famous
- Hitlers original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
- Aryan (Nordic race) though to be superior beings
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labor
- 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 prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering of 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
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Summary
Jewish people were discriminated against in the country of Germany because the laws that Hitler, extreme leader implanted.
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“What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?” -John Boyne
Subjunctive Question
If the German population was not suffering from economic despair would a rebellion group be active on defending the Jewish race?