The Nuremburg Laws
-1933-39
-Anti-Jewish laws
-Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David
-This turned into forcing Jews out of careers and homes
-Prohibited Marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans
-Finally loss of citizenship
Kristallnacht
-9 November 1938
-Kristall (glass)
-Nacht (night)
-Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned
-Many Jews Imprisoned
-State sanctioned event
Propaganda, Lebensraum and Mass Rallies
-Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi Party
-Effected all aspects of German Life
-Promoted:
-Aryan Race
-Anti-Communism
-Anti-Semitism
-Lebensraum (Living space in the east)
-Organized mass rallies for army and citizens
-Nuremberg night rallies the most famous
The Aryan Race and Final Solution
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
-Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labor
-July 1941 final solution - extermination of the Jewish race a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S.
-Shooting and burying him was not fast enough
- Gas chambers became the popular way of killing Jews
-Made famous places such as Auschwitz
The Holoaust
- Holocaust prior to World War II was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
-The first reports to the west came in January of 1942 when the New York Times reported that 100,000 jews had been Machine Gunned down in the Baltic states
-July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the soviets liberated a camp called Majdanek
-1945 Auschwitz is discovered
-Its believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust
-1933-39
-Anti-Jewish laws
-Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David
-This turned into forcing Jews out of careers and homes
-Prohibited Marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans
-Finally loss of citizenship
Kristallnacht
-9 November 1938
-Kristall (glass)
-Nacht (night)
-Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned
-Many Jews Imprisoned
-State sanctioned event
Propaganda, Lebensraum and Mass Rallies
-Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi Party
-Effected all aspects of German Life
-Promoted:
-Aryan Race
-Anti-Communism
-Anti-Semitism
-Lebensraum (Living space in the east)
-Organized mass rallies for army and citizens
-Nuremberg night rallies the most famous
The Aryan Race and Final Solution
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
-Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labor
-July 1941 final solution - extermination of the Jewish race a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S.
-Shooting and burying him was not fast enough
- Gas chambers became the popular way of killing Jews
-Made famous places such as Auschwitz
The Holoaust
- Holocaust prior to World War II was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
-The first reports to the west came in January of 1942 when the New York Times reported that 100,000 jews had been Machine Gunned down in the Baltic states
-July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the soviets liberated a camp called Majdanek
-1945 Auschwitz is discovered
-Its believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust
"In the morning, sixty percent of the six people in the bunk did not wake up. The other forty percent went over the pockets of the dead people to find a piece of bread…The hygienic condition was very, very poor in that period. I remember that I searched a dead body in the bunk and I found a piece of bread. That piece of bread was crawling with lice and you shook them off the bread and put it in your mouth and ate it."
~ Jack Oran (Holocaust Survivor)