“The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”

Jewish exclusion had to be gradual…

1933

The Boycott of Jewish Businesses isolated Jews both socially and economically in German society.

1935

Nuremburg Laws were laws that deprived German Jews of citizenship, banned marriage between Jews & non-Jews, forced identification with arm-band – “Law for the Protection of German

Blood and Honor”

November 9-10, 1938• Kristallnacht: “The Night of

Broken Glass”– pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi

Germany and parts of Austria, carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians. • German authorities looked on without

intervening. The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues

Jewish Ghettos 1939

• Jews forced to live in confined areas within cities. (Mainly Polish cities.) – Starvation– Disease from crowding– Cold

1942

• Wannsee Conference – Nazi officials meet to discuss

and plan the mass murder of the Jews.

“Jewish God is Money”

• “The Eternal or Wandering Jew”—1940. As part of its wartime attack on Jews, the Ministry of Propaganda used motion pictures as a medium for anti-Semitic messages.

“Behind the enemy powers: the Jew”—1942

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Do you think the U.S. government would send us messages about a group of people like the Nazis did? Why or why not?