April 11th-15th

[1Clara]

Monday:

We went over notes, discussed blogs (graded today)

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday: 

Holocaust:

• Genocide:
  • killing members of a group
  • causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the grou
  • deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in while or in part
  • imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
  • forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
• Inferior - According to Hitler
  • Jews (6 million) - 2/3 (9 million)
  • Gypsies (Roma's) 
  • Mentally/ Physically handicapped people
  • Soviet Slavs (ethnic group)/ POW's/Troops
  • Poles
  • Homosexuals
  • Communists
  • Dark skinned people
  • Mixed races
  • Jehovah's Witnesses 
• Aryan Race
  • Nazis used term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany 
  • Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
  • The original term refers to a people speaking a Indo-European dialect 
• Lebensborn - Fount of Life
  • The program aim 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 Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape
  • Contrary to widespread rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans 
• Hitler's Jewish Question - 1933
  • Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933- Never restored
  • The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau in 1933. The first inmates are 200 Communists
  • Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools 
  • Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges 
• Nuremberg Laws 1935
  • 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 or four Jewish grandparents. People with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race. 
    • eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk in Nazi Germany
  • Jews could only marry Jews
  • No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
• 1936
  • Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses 
• Kristallnacht - 1938
  • "Night of Broken Glass"
    • On the nights on November 9 & 10 1938, the Nazis roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting
    • In all, 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7500 Jewish Businesses were destroyed
    • 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
    • Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack
• 1938
  • All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
  • Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses 
• Hitler's Final Solution 
  • Genocide
  • kill all 9 million Jews
• 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 are forced into ghettos
  • Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland 
• 1941
  • Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos 
  • in two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar
• 1942
  • Nazi officials announce "Final Solution" their plan to kill all European Jews
  • Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Trablinka, Belzec, Auschwitz- Birkenau
• 1943
  • Jews in the 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 Hungary and beings deporting Jews 
• 1945
  • Hitler is defeated and Wold War II 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 British-controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948