April 11- Took notes
Inferior according to Hitler
Jews
Gypsies
mentally/physically handicapped people
Soviet slavs/POWs/ troops
Poles
Homosexuals
Communists
Dark skinned people
Mixed races
Jehovah’s witnesses
Aryan Race
Nazis used this term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany
Perfect Aryan was blond haired, blue eyed, tall and muscular
The original term refers to a people speaking in indo-europe dialect
Lebensborn- Fountain of life
Program aimed to promote the growth of superior Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restricting access to those deemed fit
Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories
Many of these children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape
Jewish Question
Nazis ‘temporarily’ suspend civil liberties for all citizens- never restored
Concentration camps- work camps
Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools
Most Jews couldn’t go to high school and college
Final decision- Genocide
Nuremburg Laws
Took away German citizenship from jews thus making jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
Established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three Jewish grandparents- eventually only one
Jews could only marry jews
No sexual relations between non-jewish Germans and Jews
1936
Boycott Jews
Night of the Broken glass
THE NAZIS ROAMED THROUGH JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS BREAKING WINDOWS OF JEWISH BUSINESSES AND HOMES BURNIGN synagogues and looting
Synagogues were destroyed
Jews sent to concentration camps
1938
All jewish children are expelled from public schools in germany and austria
Nazis take control of Jewish owned businesses
1939
Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria
Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars
1940
Nazis begin deporting german Jews to Poland
Jews forced into ghettos
Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland
1941
In two days, German units shoot 33 thousand Jews
1942
Announce Final solution
Kill all European Jews
5 death camps begin operation in Poland
Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
1943
Jews in Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising
1944
Hitler takes over Hungry
1945
Hitler is defeated and WWII ends in Europe
The holocaust is over and the death camps are found emptied
Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
1947
- The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in Israel
April 12- Video
April 13- New York
April 14- New York
April 15- New York
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