Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Period 6 Regan Sonny An Hebrew: Shoah = catastrophe; now synonymous with Holocaust 12 million died o 6 million were Jewish o 1 million children 1933: Hitler takes over o 1942: Final solution is implemented o 9 years of dehumanizing the Jews, making it easier for the public to understand the slaughter
Find and blame a scapegoat: The Jews o Associated them with what you hate: Communism and the Treaty of Versailles
1933: Boycott of Jewish businesses Decade into the German Great Depression Jews forced to paint Star of David on their stores
1935: Nuremberg Laws Jews stripped of German citizenship: Us versus them mentality
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor Section 1: Marriage restrictions Germans </3 Jews Section 2: No sex with Jews Section 3: Jews cannot employ German female aged 45 or younger for housekeeping Section 4: Jews were forbidden to display German flag colors, but the right to use Jewish colors would be protected by the government (obvious trolling; contributed to segregation) Jews cannot hold office, vote, etc.
1938: Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass 100 Jews killed 1,000 synagogues and businesses burned or destroyed 30,000 Jews arrested and sent to concentration camps Jews were fined $400 million for starting the mess
Eugenics: the science that attempts to control and improve the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally The T-4 Program o Attempt to weed out the weak and the incurably ill Mentally and physically disabled were ordered to be killed 1st gas chambers were used on disabled as mercy killing o Propaganda: Keeping a disabled person alive takes away your money while they have nothing to contribute. Put them out of their misery. o 200,000 disabled persons killed
The Lebensborn Program o Translated into, The Fountain/Spring of Life o For Aryan orphans (indoctrinating them to be good Nazis) o 12 camps set up 1939: Program extended to Poland, Czechoslavia, and France o Native country Conquered by Nazis Sent to children concentration camps (to determine racial purity) Lebensborn Program or execution o 250,000 racially pure children were kidnapped The White Rose Society o Former Hitler Youth members, questioned indoctrination Late teens to early twenties: Fought against Hitler indoctrination o Members caught and hung by piano wire in front of other students 1942: Wannsee Conference o 16 of Hitlers inner circle contemplated the final solution to the Jewish problem 2|Page
Concentration and Death Camps Dachau: camp for political prisoners Buchenwald (good guards) Treblinka Bergen-Belsen (good guards) Auschwitz (all SS, inhuman, stone-faced, brutal, sadistic)
3|Page