• Title = Leader of West• You are the President of France,

GB or USA and you are noticing an influx of Jews trying to immigrate into your country.

• You hear news of anti-Semitism in Germany and conclude that these Jewish refugees are trying to leave a country where they are not wanted.

• Do you let thousands of Jewish refugees into your country? Yes or No?

• What might stand in your way from allowing a larger number of Jews into your country?

• holocaust = destruction by fire

• Holocaust = systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe– including ~6 million Jews

• Today we will just address the first 2 tactics used by Nazis to begin creating the Aryan state

• Climbing the Pyramid of Hate

• 1933, Hitler builds Dachau Concentration Camp in Munich…the first of many

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Dachau_barracks.jpg

• Laws created by Nazi gov against Jews

• Stripped Jews of their…– Jobs– Citizenship– Property

• Segregated Jews in Germany by bloodline…effects?– Businesses boycotted– Outlaws marriage of Jews

and non-Jews

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Nurembergracechart.jpg

• November 9 + 10, 1938• “Night of Broken Glass”• gangs of Nazi SA

Stormtroopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany

• Who was blamed?– 20,000 arrested and sent to

concentration camps• Pyramid Level now?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/1938_Interior_of_Berlin_synagogue_after_Kristallnacht.jpg

• Rich vs Poor– Rich = flee Germany– Poor/Defiant = stay– Why?

• Jews flee to France, GB and USA…but…– Big Three don’t take

them all

• You are the President of France, GB or USA and you are noticing an influx of Jews trying to immigrate into your country.

• You hear news of anti-Semitism in Germany and conclude that these Jewish refugees are trying to leave a country where they are not wanted.

• Do you let thousands of Jewish refugees into your country? Yes or No?

• What might stand in your way from allowing a larger number of Jews into your country?

– Anti-Semitism in your own country (!!!)– Immigration Laws not changed (!!!)– Many sad stories (St. Louis, Awitz)

• Propaganda creating some fanatical anti-Semitism

• Hitler criticized for Kristallnacht but most people afraid to speak out (terror)

• People either behind Hitler or too afraid to resist

• Final Solution will go into effect after 1939–Genocide–Ghettos,

Concentration and Death Camps

• Schindler’s List