Class started off today by Mr. Bruns guessing what our avatars from WWII are..
then we continued talking about people who were inferior according to hitler. here they are again--
- Jews (6 million dead)
- Gypsies (500,000 dead)
- mentally/physically handicapped (75,000-250,000)
- Soviet Slavs/ POW's/Troops-16.5 million
- people from poland (2.5 million)
- homosexuals (5,000-15,000 dead)
- communists (these were the people Hitler was most worried about when he came to power)
- dark skinned people (death and forced sterilization)
- mixed races- Hitler said that children who were of mixed races came from rape or the white mother was a whore. bit harsh i'd say,
- Jehovah's Witnesses (2,500-5,000) they refused to be in the german military, salute the nazi flag, or recite the german pledge..
Hitler's Jewish Question -1933
hitler took baby steps when dealing with the jews.
1) nazi's "temporarily" suspended civil liberties for all citizens in 1933.. & they were never restored
2) in 1933, the first concentration camps are set up, the first inmates being communists.
3) Jews are prohibited from working for the government, are not allowed to be doctors or teachers. Jewish children could no longer attend school/college.
Nuremburg Laws- 1935
Jews were no longer allowed to be German citizens.
established who was considered a Jew. 3-4 Jewish grandparents=Jew 1-2 Jewish grandparents=mixed race. eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk in Nazi Germany.
Jews are only allowed to marry other Jews
No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews. (so there is no dilution of Aryan law)
1936
Nazis boycott Jewish owned businesses.
Kristallnacht-1938 "Night of Broken Glass"
November 9 & 10 gangs of Nazi youth roam through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and stealing.
but only 91 Jews died in the attack. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
ALL Jewish children expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
any Jewish businesses still running, Nazi's take them over
1939
Hitler orders systematic murder of mentally and physically disable in Germany and Austria
Jews are requred to wear armbands or yellow stars
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 ghetos.
in 2 days, German troops shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews are BabiYar-largest single massacre of the Holocaust
The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews.
1942
Nazi officials announce the "Final Solution"-their plan to kill all European Jews.
5 death camps open in Poland. Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
Ghettos of eastern europe are shipped to death camps.
US, Great Britain and Soviet Union find out that the Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe.
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