We continued taking notes on WWII.
Holocaust
Genocide of about 6 millions European Jews
Genocide- organized way of killing and it is aimed at a certain race or belief.
2/3 of the population of 9 million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died.
Some maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazi's genocide of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory.
By this defintion, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.
Killed in Holocaust-
- Jews (6 million dead)
- Gypsys (500,000-1.5 million)
- Mentally/physically handicaped people (75,000-250,000)
- Soviet Slaves/POW/Troops (16.5 million)
- Polish people (2.5 million)
- Homosexuals (5-15 million)
- Communists/socialists (many but numbers not given)
- Dark skinned people (death and forced sterilization)
- Mixed race
- Jehovah's Witnessess (2,500-5,000)
Aryan Race- misused by the Nazis to mean a so-called master race that originated around Germany, perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular, original term refers to a people speaking an Indo-European dialect.
Ledensborn- houses through out Germany would set up houses where Aryan girls and boys would have relations and have perfect babies. Treated well, baby was treated well.
- Nazi's "temp" suspended civil liberties for all citizens in 1933- never restored.
- Nazi's 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 Bation Health Service and teachers in public high schools. All but few Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.
Nuremburg Laws 1935
- Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews 2nd class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
- Established membership in the Hewish race as bding anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had 3 or 4 Jewish grandparent. People with 1 or 2 Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race.
- Eventually anyone with at least 1 Jewish gradparent was at rick in Nazi Germany.
- Jews could only marry Jews.
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews.
1936
- Nazis boycotted Jewish businesses.
1938
- Kristallnacht- 1938- Night of broken glass- Nov. 9 and 10 gangs on Nazi youth broke Jewish windows, burned synagogues, and looted, Jews were attacked.
- All Jewish kids are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria.
- Nazis take control of Jewish owned businesses.
1939
- Hitler order the systamatic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria.
- Jews have to wear yellow star or armband.
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 2 days German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar- the largest single massacre of the Holocaust.
- The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews.
1942
- Nazi officials announce "final solution"- their plan to kill all European Jews.
- 5 death camps begin operation in Poland- Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps.
- The U.S. Great Britain, and Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are exterminaiting the Jews of Europe.
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