Monday, March 5th

HOLOCAUST

The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War 2
A program of systematic sate-sponsered extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
Approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocause died
Some maintain that the definition of the Nolocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of the millions of people in other groups from 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 the Holocaust

Gypsies (500,000 to 1.5 million dead)
Mentally/Physically handicapped people (75,000 to 250,000 dead)
Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops (16.5 million dead) (7.4 million included in the holocaust)
Poles (2.5 million dead)
Homosexuals (5-15 thousand dead)
Communists/Socialists (Many but number not confirmed)
Dark Skinned People (death and forced sterilization)
Mixed Races ("The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore," Adolf Hitler)
Jehovah's Witnesses (2,500-5,000 dead)
Free Mason's (80,000-200,000 dead)
Jews (6 million dead)

What is the Aryan Race?

Misused by the Nazis to mean a so-called master race that originated around Germany
Perfect Aryan was blonde haired, blue eyes

Lebensborn- Fount of Life

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 lead to many rumors of rape

Hitler's Jewish Question 1933

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 servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools. All but few Jewish teachers are banned from public high schools and colleges

Nuremburg Laws 1935

Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
Established membership in the 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 Nazi Germany
Jews could only marry Jews
No sexual relations non-Jewish Germans and Jews

1936

Kristallnacht-1938 Night of the Broken Glass

On the nights of NOvember 9th and 10th, 1938, gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting
In all, 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack

1938-Cont.

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

1941

Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced in 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 officals announce "Final Solution" - their pan 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 United States, Great Britian, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews in Europe

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