Today we started Holocaust notes.
Holocaust Genocide
- The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during WWII
- A Program of systemmatic state-sponsored 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 Holocaust died.
- Some maintain that the deinition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazi's genocide of millions of people inother groups from Germany and other occupied territory.
- By this definition, thetotalnumber of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and17million people.
Who was killed in the Holocaust?
- Jews (6 million dead)
- Gypsies (500,000 to 1.5 million)
- Mentally/Physically handicapped people (75,000 to 250,000)
- Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops (16.5 million) Ones that should be included in the genocide would be about 7.4 million.
- Poles (2.5 million dead)
- Homosexuals (5-15 thousand dead)
- Communists/Solialists (many but number not confirmed)
- Dark skinned people (death and forced sterillzation)
- Mixed races- "THe mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore." Adolf Hitler.
- Johovah's Witnesses (2,500-5,000)
- Free Masons (80,000-200,000)
What is the Aryan Race?
- Misused by the Nazis to means a so-called master race that originated around Germany
- Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed
Lebensborn- Fount of Life
- The program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan propulations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restrictino access to those deemed "fit"
- Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories.
Hitler's Jewish Question
- Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933- Never restored
- Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau in1933. The first inmates are 200 communists.
- Jews are prohibitited from working as civil sermvants, doctors in the national health service, and teachers in public highschools.
Nuremburg Laws
- Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
- You were considered a Jew if you had 3 out of 4 grandparents it eventually changed to 1 out of 4
- Jews can only marry Jews.
- No sexual relations between a germans and a jew
1936
- Nazis boycott Jewish-owed businesses.
Night of the Broken Glass- Kristallnacht
- November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazis raided jewish neighborhoods.
1938
- All jewish children are expelled form public schools in Germany and Austria.
1939
- Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled.
- Jews are required to wear the star of David.
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 two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar- Largest singl massacre of the Holocaust.
- The Death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews.
1942
- Nazi officials announce "Finall Solution"- their plan to kill all European Jews.
- Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzac, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps.
- The United States didn't do anything because it would help us win the war.
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