Today we started off with the WWII avatars. Then we continued with the super long powerpoint.
Inferior to Hitler: Jews (6 mil), Gypsies (500,000-1.5 mil), mentally/physically handicapped people (75,000-250,000), Soviet Slavs/POWs/troops/civilians (16.5 mil), Poles (2.5 mil), homosexuals (5-15 thousand), communists/socialists (many, no confirmed number), dark skinned people (death and forced steralization), mixed races, Johovah's Witnesses (2,500-5,000).
Holocaust: Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933-never restored. First Nazi concentration camp in Dachau in 1933 for 200 communists. Jewish students couldn't attend school and can't work as civil servants, teachers, or doctors.
Nuremburg Laws 1935: took away German citizenship from Jews. 3-4 Jewish grandparents made you a Jew, 1-2 Jewish grandparents made you a mixed race. Eventually both were at risk in Nazi Germany. Jews can only marry Jews. No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews.
1936-Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses.
Kristallnacht 1938: Nazi youth roamed Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and lotting. 91 died. 101 synagogues destroyed, 7,500 Jewish businesses.
All Jewish children expelled from public school in Germany and Austria.
1939: Hitler started murdering disabled people. Jews had to wear Star of David armbands.
1940: Nazis deport German Jews to Poland. Jews are forced into ghettos. Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland.
1941: Jews are forced in ghettos throughout eastern Europe. 33,771 Ukrainian Jews are murdered in 2 days. First death camp in Chelmno in Poland.
1942: Hitler announced Final Solution to kill all european Jews. More death camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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