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• Schutzstaffel = Security Squadron (SS)–Rounded up the

Jews

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•HOLOCAUST–The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, ½ were Jews

–RACIAL PURITY

• JEWS TARGETED (543)– Jews were not the only

victims of the Holocaust, but they were the main targets of the Nazis

– Anti-Semitism = hatred of Jews

– Hitler said the Jews were responsible for Germany’s economic problems and Germany’s defeat after WWI

• JEWS TARGETED (con’t)–Nuremberg Laws –

stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property

– Jews had to wear bright yellow Star of David

• Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass” (543)–November 9-10, 1938–Nazi storm troopers

attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues

–Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction

• A FLOOD OF JEWISH REFUGEES (543-544)– Jews fleeing Germany had

trouble finding nations to accept them

– France said NO– Britain said NO– USA said NO because

Americans worried that Jews would take their Jobs

– Also, Americans worried that the Jews were “enemy agents”

• THE PLIGHT OF THE ST. LOUIS (544)– St. Louis was a German

ocean liner•The St. Louis brought Jews to America but America refused and told them to go back to Europe

•When the ship got back to Europe ½ of the passengers were killed in the Holocaust

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• THE FINAL SOLUTION–Genocide – the killing

of all Jews in EUROPE not just in Germany

• THE CONDEMNED (545)– Jews–Communists,

socialists, liberals–Anyone who spoke

out against the German Government

• THE CONDEMNED (con’t)– Gypies – Nazis said they

were an inferior race– Freemasons – Nazis

said they were part of the “Jewish Conspiracy” to rule the world

– Jehovah’s Witnesses – would not join German army or salute Hitler

• THE CONDEMNED (con’t)– Homosexuals,

mentally ill, incurably ill, and the physically disabled•Hitler felt the above groups were unfit for the master “Aryan Race”

• FORCED RELOCATION (545)– Jews were ordered

to live in the ghettos•The ghettos were sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls

• CONCENTRATION CAMPS (546)–They were labor camps–Families were

separated–Those put in the camps

worked from dawn to dusk

– If you were too weak to work you were killed

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• Concentration Camps–Murder by

poison gas started in 1942

• MASS EXTERMINATIONS (547-548)– Germans built six death

camps in Poland– Auschwitz was the largest

death camp– USED

•Poison Gas, 12,000 killed a day

•You were shot, hanged, or injected with poisonous gas

•Medical Experiments were performed on the Jews

• THE SURVIVORS (549)–Roughly six million

Jews died in the death camps

–Some Jews escaped through the help of ordinary people who were appalled by the Nazis