The Holocaust
- Nuermberg laws introduced between 1933-1939
- Anti-Jewish Laws
- Forced Jews to register, and wear the star of david
- Eventually forced Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jewish and Non-Jewish Germans
- Finally, they lose their citizenship
- 9 November 1938, Kristallnacht
- Night of Glass
- Thousands of Jewish shops and synagogue windows were smashed and burned
- Many Jewish people imprisoned
- This was a state sanctioned event
- Hitler outlined the Aryan race (Nordic) as being superior beings
- Jews were made out to be universal scapegoats
- Jews initially sent to work camps to do manual labor
- 1941, Hitler determines the final solution, exterminate all Jews
- Carried out by a group of military made up of insane people and prisoners
- Shooting and burying was not fast enough
- Gas chambers were the most effect ive method
- Holocaust prior to World War II meant a burning offering or destruction by fire
- First reports to reach the west where in January 1942
- Times reported 100,000 Jews shot in Baltic states
- July 1944, allies got their first witness of the true horrors
- 1945, Aushwitz discovered
- Now believed to be 6 million Jewish people killed
Hitler outlined that the True germans were the master race and that the jews were the problem. It started with them being treated poorly, and finally, killed
- Anti-Jewish Laws
- Forced Jews to register, and wear the star of david
- Eventually forced Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jewish and Non-Jewish Germans
- Finally, they lose their citizenship
- 9 November 1938, Kristallnacht
- Night of Glass
- Thousands of Jewish shops and synagogue windows were smashed and burned
- Many Jewish people imprisoned
- This was a state sanctioned event
- Hitler outlined the Aryan race (Nordic) as being superior beings
- Jews were made out to be universal scapegoats
- Jews initially sent to work camps to do manual labor
- 1941, Hitler determines the final solution, exterminate all Jews
- Carried out by a group of military made up of insane people and prisoners
- Shooting and burying was not fast enough
- Gas chambers were the most effect ive method
- Holocaust prior to World War II meant a burning offering or destruction by fire
- First reports to reach the west where in January 1942
- Times reported 100,000 Jews shot in Baltic states
- July 1944, allies got their first witness of the true horrors
- 1945, Aushwitz discovered
- Now believed to be 6 million Jewish people killed
Hitler outlined that the True germans were the master race and that the jews were the problem. It started with them being treated poorly, and finally, killed