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The Holocaust
- The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during WW2
- A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory.
- 2/3 of the Jews were killed/ 6 million out of 9million
- Some maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups form Germany and other occupied territory
- By this definition the total number of holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people
Who was killed in Holocaust
- Jews 6 million
- Gypsies 500,000-1.5 million
- mentally/physically hadicapped people 75,000-250,000
- soviet slavs/POW's/Troops 16.5 million
- Russian Academy 13.7 million
- 4.1 million died of famine desease
- Poles 2.5 million dead
- Homosexuals 5.15 thousand dead
- communist/socialist -many but number not confirmed
- dark skinned people(death and forced sterilization)
- mixed races-"the mulatto children came about through rape of the white mother was a whore"..hilter
- Jehovah's Witnesses 2,500-5,000
What is the 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
- the original term refers to a people speaking a Indo-European dialect
Lebensborn-Fount of Life
- producing blonde hair, blue-eyed babies
- The program aimed 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...
Hitler's Jewish Question 1933
- What are we going to do with the Jews
- 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 servantes
Nuremburg Laws 1935
- took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
- established membership in tghe Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish of 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 Naiz Gemany
- Jews could only marry Jews
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936
- Nazi boycott Jewish-owned businesses
Kristallnacht-1938..."Night of the Broken Glass
- ONe the night of November 9 & 10, 1938,
- 28 thousand Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- 7,500 Jews businesses were destroyed
1938
- All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Gemany & Austria
- Nazi take control of Jewish-owned business
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 began 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-the largest single massacre of the Holocaust
- The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
1942
- Nazi officials announce "Final Solutions"-their plan to kill all European Jews
- Five 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 US, GB, and the Soviet Union acknwledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe
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
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