Schutzstaffel = Security Squadron (SS) –Rounded up the Jews.

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Transcript of Schutzstaffel = Security Squadron (SS) –Rounded up the Jews.

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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 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

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• 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

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