Monday- Continued notes on the Holocaust
Tuesday- Last part of movie.
Wednesday- Last part of movie.
Thursday- GONE
Friday- GONE
Holocaust
- Genocide of approx. six million European Jews during WWII
- Systematic state-sponsored extermination of Jews
- Hitlers goal was to kill all nine million Jews but he ran out of time
- US stopped him by winning the war
- 2/3 of the nine million Jews died
- Genocide
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately Inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children out of the group
- Hitler went after:
- Jews (6 million dead- out of 9 million)
- Gypsies
- Mentally/physically handicapped people
- Soviet Slaves
- Poles
- Homosexuals
- Communists/socialists
- Dark skinned people
- Mixed races
- Jehovah's witnesses
- Aryan Race
- So-called master race of Germany
- Perfect Aryan- blonde, blue-eyed, tall, and muscular
- People speaking to Indo-European dialect
- Lebensborn-Fount of life
- Promoted growth of "superior" Aryan populations by providing health care
- Provided living conditions for women
- 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
- Women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans
- Hitler's Jewish Question- 1933
- What should we do with the Jews
- Nazi's temporarily suspended civil liberties for all citizen
- Nazi's set up the first concentration camp in 1933
- First inmates were 200 communists
- Jews were prohibited from working civil servants, doctors, and teachers
- Jewish students were banned from high schools and colleges
- Nuremburg Laws 1935
- Took away German citizenship from Jews- making Jews second class citizens
- Defined who a Jew was
- Anyone who considered themselves Jewish
- Anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents
- People with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race
- Jews could only marry Jew
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
- 1936
- Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
- Kristallnacht- 1938
- "Night of the Broken Glass"
- Nazi's roamed the streets of Jewish neighborhoods
- Broke windows of Jewish businesses and homes
- Burned synagogues
- Looting
- Jewish were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- Jews were physically attacked and beaten- 91 died in the attack
- 1938
- All Jewish children were expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
- Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
- Hitlers Final Solution
- Genocide
- 1939
- Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled people
- Jews were required 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 ghettos
- In two days, German units shot almost 34,000
- 1942
- Nazi officials announce "final solution" - their plan to kill all European Jews
- Five death camps begin operation in Poland
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
- 1943
- Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds deportations
- Jews hole out for nearly a month before Nazis put down the uprising
- 1944
- Hitlers takes over Hungary and begins deporting
- 1945
- Hitler is defeated and WWII ends in Europe
- Holocaust is over and the death camps are found and emptied
- Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
- 1947
- United Nations established Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine
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