Monday March 5

                                                   The Holocaust

2/3 ofthe Jews were killed

Genocide- 7 to 17 million people were killed. A mas killing of a certain race, not because of land or power. 

Groups that were killed in the Holocaust.

  1. Gypsies- People who moved around, and who had no permanent place to live. ( 500,000 to 1.5 million)
  2. Jews- 6 million dead because they were thought to have all the power.
  3. Handicapped- Because he did not want them diluting the Aryan race. ( 75,000-250,000)
  4. Soviets-16.5 million  slaves, troops,
  5. Poles- People who lived in Poland(2.5 million_
  6. Homo's- (5-15 thousand )
  7. Communist/ socialist-
  8. Dark skin- or sterilization
  9. Mixed Races - it was not possible
  10. e that a white women to love a black, which means she was raped or she was a whore.

    10.Jehovah's Witnesses( 2,500-5,000)

Aryan Race- Missued by the Nazis to mean a so  called a master  race that originated around Germany.  Perfect Aryan was blond, blue eyed, tall and muscular, The original term refers to a people speaking Indo-European dialect.

Lebensborn- fountain of life-  Women were taking in to have relations with blond hair, blue eyed guys. To make the perfect race.- Most women did it voluntary because great conditions, great future for kids.        - The program was aimed to promote the growth of the Superior Race

  1. They " Temporarily"suspended Civil liberties for all citizens in 193- Never restored
  2. Set up the first concentration camp at Dachau  The first inmates were 200 Communist
  3. Jews were prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in the public high schools. All but few Jewish students were banned  from pubic high schools and colleges . 

Nuremberg Laws 1935-

  1. took away citizenship from Jews. 
  2. Established Jew race anyone who eitehr considred them selves Jews, or had 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents. People with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered dot to be mixed race         -Eventually any one with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk
  3. Jews could only marry Jews
  4.  No sexual relations between no Jewish Germans and Jews

1936- Nazis boycott Jewish Businesses                                                                                                            

- Kristallnacht-1938 night of the Broken Glass Roamed Jewish bussiness and they destroyed them stole things

- Synagogues were destroyed, some were arrested and some were taking to concentration camps, Jews were psychically attacked, and 91 died.

1938- all Jewish children were expelled from public schools, In Germany and Australia

1939- Hitler orders the killing of the mentally disabled,                                                                                  -Jews are required to were yellow stars

1940-Nazis begin deporting Jews to Poland, They were forced into ghettos, Nazis begin the firs mass murder of Jews in Poland. They were moved away from the German public to keep it away from the people of Germany.






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