The Holocaust
- genocide- killing people of a specific group
- the holocaust was a genocide
- 2/3 of jews were killed of nine million
- groups other than jews were also killed
who was killed in the holocaust?
- jews- 6 million
- gypsies- 1.5 million
- handicapped people- 75,000-250,000
- soviet slavs- 16.5 million
- poles- 2.5 million
- communists and socialists were killed
- black women and men
- mixed races
Aryan race
- master race
- blonde-haired, blue-eyed, tall, muscular
- indo-european dialect
Lebensborn
promoted the growth of superior aryan population- health care and living conditions to women
Nuremberg Laws 1935
- took away citizenship from jews making them second class
- whoever had 3- 4 jewish grandparents were jews and 1-2 grandparents were mixed race
- jews could only marry jews
- no sexual relations between jews and aryans
1936- nazis boycott jewish owned businesses
1938- Kristallnacht- "night of the broken glass"
- not an attempt to kill jews
- attempt to kill off synagogues and businesses owned by jews
- jews were physically attacked and beaten
1938..
- jewish children could not go to school
- nazis take control of jewish owned businesses
1939
- hitler orders the murder of disabled in germany and austria
- jews are required to wear armbands of yellow stars
1940
- nazis deported jews into poland
- jews forced into ghettos
- nazis begin the first mass murder of jews in poland- killing starts to take place
1941
- jews moved to the ghettos
- in two days german units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian jews ant BabiYar- largest single massacre of the holocaust
1942
- Final Solution- plan to kill all european jews
- 5 death camps begin to operate- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec
- ghettos are being emptied to death camps
- United States, Great Britain, and the Soviets realize that germans are exterminating the jews of europe
1943
- jews in the warsaw ghetto resist as the nazis begin new rounds of deportations. jews hold out for nearly a month before the nazis put down the uprising.
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