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The Holocaust

Anti-Semitism

• Hostility towards or prejudice against Jews or Judaism

Anti-Semitism in Germany

• From the time he was a boy, Hitler blamed Jews for German losses after WWI and the economic depression that spread thereafter

“The Jewish Question”

• NAZIS, led by Hitler, believed that something needed to be done to remove Jews from German lands

Boycott of Jewish Stores

“Retirement”

• Government dismissed all workers NOT of Aryan descent

• Jewish teachers, lawyers, and performers were not allowed to work

• Jewish admissions to universities cancelled

Dachau

• The first concentration camp was opened in Germany in 1933

Book Burnings

Nuremburg LawsSection 1 Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred

blood are forbidden.

Section 2extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and subjects of the state of Germany or related blood is forbidden

Section 3 Jews will not be permitted to employ female citizens under

the age of 45, of German or kindred blood, as domestic workers.

Section 4Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the national colours On the other hand they are permitted to display the Jewish colours.

Krystallnacht – Nov 9th, 1938

• “Night of Broken Glass”

• Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German towns and cities

The Warsaw Ghetto - 1940

The “Judenrat”

By 1939, six large concentration camps existed in Poland

By 1941, they started operating as “death camps”

1942 – “Wannsee Conference”

“The Final Solution”

Einsatzgruppen

Adolf Eichmann

• Special force of the SS created to deal with the “undesirables” of occupied countries

• Eichmann headed a special section that dealt strictly with Jews

Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto

1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

T-4 Euthanasia Program

Zyklon-B Gas Chambers

Auschwitz

Trains transported Jews to camps

Identifying the prisoners

• Green = professional criminal

• Pink = homosexual

• Brown = gypsy

• Violet = Jehovah’s Witness

• Black = “a-social” (alcoholic or prostitute)

Identifying the prisoners

• Jews were given 2 black and yellow triangles• Together they formed the 6-pointed Star of

David

NAZI leaders

Adolf Hitler

NAZI leaders

Joseph Goebbels

NAZI leaders Hermann Goring

NAZI leaders

Heinrich Himmler

NAZI leaders

Rudolf Hoss

NAZI leaders

Joseph Mengele

Liberation - 1945

Nuremburg Trials – 1945 - 49

Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice

Nicoletta Braschi as Dora

Giorgio Cantarini as Joshua