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Holocaust Class Notes

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

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Holocaust Class Notes


Period 6 Regan Sonny An Over 400 built Jews were labeled with badges or armbands Little food and unsanitary conditions Cramped housing Population 450,000 people 25,000 people Area 1.3 square miles 3.4 square miles

Location Warsaw Ghetto South Pasadena

Original sin was racial poisoning according to Hitler

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

Holocaust Class Notes


Period 6 Regan Sonny An o 6 important members: Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann, Hess, Goering o 8 of the 16 had PhDs (Hitler had a PhD like how Lebron has a ring) Einstanzgruppen: mobile killing units o Takes time and resources; not efficient enough 16 of the inner circle estimated how many Jews were left in certain locations o Estonia was free of Jews (either driven out or killed) Solidified plans for gas chamber usage

Concentration Camps in Modern History* [Text]

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)

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