Monday- no school
Tuesday- continued powerpoint
- The Holocaust
- The genocide of approzimately six million European Jews during ww2
- A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination of Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
- Approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocuast died
- Some say that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' killing of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory.
- By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.
- What is Genocide?
- Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group , as such:
- 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 of the group to another group
- Member Countries must "undertake to prevent and punish"
- Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group , as such:
- What is the Aryan Race?
- Nazis used term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany
- Perfect Aryan was blone, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
- The original term refers to a people speaking a Indo-European dialect
- Who was inferior According to Hitler?
- Jews(6 million dead)
- Roma People-Gypsies(500,000 to 1.5 million)
- Mentally/physically handicapped people(75,000 to 250,000)
- Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops(16.5 million)
- Poles(2.5 million dead)
- Homosexuals(5-15 thousand dead)
- Communists/socialists(many but number not confirmed)
- Dark skinned people(death and forced sterilization)
- Mixed races-"the mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore," Adolf Hitler
- Jehovah's Witnessess(2,500-5,000)
- 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
- Contrary to widespread rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans
- Hitler's Jewish Question-1933
- What are we going to do with the Jews"
- 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 Communits.
- Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools
- Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges
- What are we going to do with the Jews"
- Nuremburg Laws 1935
- Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
- 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 risk in Nazi Germany
- Jews could only marry Jews
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
- 1936
- Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
- Kristallnacht- 1938 "Night of the Broken Glass"
- On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazis 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
- Hitler's Final Solution
- Genocide
- 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 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- the largest single massacre of the Holocaust.
- The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
- 1942
- Nazi officials announce "Final Solution"- their plan to kill all European Jews
- Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
- The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe
- 1943
- Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising.
- 1944
- Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered
- 1945
- Hitler is defeated and World War 2 ends in Europe
- The Holocaust is over and the death camps are found emptied
- Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
- Some 850,000 people lived in Displaced Person camps across Europe
- Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians and Czechoslovaks
- 1947
- The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948
Thursday- was gone
Friday- watched movie
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