Monday, March 5th

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The Holocaust

The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during WWll.

A program

Who was killed in the Holocaust?

1. Jews (6 million dead)
2. Gypsies (500,000 to 1.5 million)
3. Mentally/Physically Handicapped people (75,000 to 250,000)
4. Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops- (16.5 million)
5. Poles-people from Poland (2.5 million)
6. Homosexuals (5-15 thousand dead)
7. Communists/Socialists (many but number not confirmed)
8. Dark skinned peopl (death and forced sterilization)
9. Mixed races-"The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore." Adolf Hitler
10. 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

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

Nuremburg Laws 1935

1. Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
2. Established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or 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 rish in Nazi Germany
3. Jews could only marry Jews
4. No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews.

1936

Nazis boycotted Jewish businesses.

Kristallnacht-1938 "Night of the Broken Glass"

On the nights of Nov. 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.

All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria.

Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses.

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 begin deporting German Jews to Poland.

Jews are forced into ghettos.

Nazis begin the 1st mass murder of Jews in Poland.