March 25-29

Holocaust

  • German systematic killings of Jews
  • 6 million dead

Genocide

  • Not necissarily just killing
  • Not a term until 1948
  • Killing/seriously harming members of a group
  • Mutilation
  • Conditions of life determined to kill
  • Birth preventatives
  • Forcibly transferring childern from one group to another group

Aryans

  • The master race as defined by Hitler
  • Perfect Aryan was the blond, blue-eyed, and tall/muscular
  • Actually refers to a dialect of German

Who was inferior

  • Jews (6m dead)
  • Darker skin
  • Disabled
  • Gypsy/Roma (500,000 to 1m)
  • Russians, Poles (16.5m) (2.5m)
  • Homosexuals (5-15k)
  • Communists/Socialists (unconfirmed number)
  • Dark skinned people (death and forced sterilization)
  • Mixed races
  • Jehova's Witness

Lebensborn - Fount of life

  • Germany and Scandanavia had certain homes with lots of Aryan people ("Breeding home")
    • Germany was winning but were being bombed/blockaded but these women were treated like queens
    • A lot of kids went to unwed mothers which led to rape claims
    • Women weren't forced

Jews

  • Genocide wasn't the first option
  • Hitler's final solution was eliminate all of them
  • Systematic government solution set up

 

  • Suspends civil liberties for allcitizens in 1933
  • Nazi camp Dachau set up 1933
  • Jews forced out of government
  • Jewish kids banned from public high school and college
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