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Jewish Genocide. The Holocaust. Nazi party changes Germany. Economic Revival Public Works Projects – Autobahn, Military, Parks, etc. Racial Superiority Inferior races/people targeted Gypsies, Slavic peoples, Communists, Socialists, Homosexuals, Religious groups Enemies of State are jailed
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Jewish Genocide The Holocaust
Nazi party changes Germany • Economic Revival • Public Works Projects – Autobahn, Military, Parks, etc. • Racial Superiority • Inferior races/people targeted • Gypsies, Slavic peoples, Communists, Socialists, Homosexuals, Religious groups • Enemies of State are jailed • Labels/Badges are created • Work/Prisoner Camps are built
IDs •Redwas for Communists, Social Democrats, anarchists, and other "enemies of the state"; •Greenwas for German criminals; •Bluewas for foreign forced laborers; •Brownwas for Gypsies (Roma); •Pinkwas for homosexuals; •Purple was for Jehovah's Witnesses •Blackwas for homeless, prostitutes, alcoholics, etc. who were living on the streets, (Anyone who didn't have a permanent address)
Anti-Semitism fuels persecution • Hatred of the Jewish people • Historical Roots • 1935 Nuremburg Laws • Star of David • Kristallnacht
Nazi Party Censors Germany • 1933 Nazi’s control all outlets of media • Papers, radio, propaganda, etc. • Books are burned • All non-nazi sponsored • Laws are created to ensure a pure German race • Propaganda Rises
Dissenters will be prosecuted “Every attempt to impose another political opinion or even to entertain one will be treated as a symptom of a sickness endangering the healthy unity of the individual organism of the Volk (people), And eradicated without regard to the subjective intentions of its carrier” - Internal S.S. Report
Jewish Propaganda!!! “Jews Not Wanted Here” “Propaganda does not have to state the truth objectively… but it must serve its own interests uninterruptedly” - Hitler “Parasitical Jew”
Divorce or Die • “Marriages or extramarital intercourse between Jews and citizens or German or related blood are forbidden” - Nuremberg Laws Friendship between races debases “Aryans”
War Against the Church • “We shall have no other God but Germany” - Mein Kampf • “National Socialism is a form of conversion… Once we hold power, Christianity will be overcome… and a new Germany without a Pope or bible will be established” - Mein Kampf
No Blacks Allowed • “The mulatto children came about through rape, or the white mother was a whore. In both cases, there is not the slightest moral duty regarding these offspring of a foreign race.” - Adolf Hitler Jesse Owens
Order of the Fuhrer: • I have issued the command - And I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad - • Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness - • With orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation… • Only thus shall we gain the lebensraum which we need. • Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
The Jewish Question….. • Floods of Jews leave Germany • Einstein, Oppenheimer, Freud, etc. • Jews are order into “Ghettos” • One room “houses” • Several ppl. per room • Identification cards are distributed
Work Camps • “Persons under protective arrest; Jews, Gypsies, and Russians… would be delivered by the Ministry of Justice to the S.S. to be worked to death.” - Heinrich Himmler
Holocaust Begins….. • Ghettos are liquidated • Jews are relocated to work camps • Build materials for war • Build barracks/buildings for death camps • Marched to dig graves/burial sites • Experiments are done on Jews • Parachutes • New drugs • Anti-gas/flame retardant clothing
Hitler’s Final Solution • Extermination and Annihilation of the Jewish people • Death Camps are created • Use of Gas Chambers and Crematoriums
What They Left Behind http://www.remember.org/jacobs/ShoeHeap.jpeg http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/Holocaust/shoes.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/tinker2/shoes/1137.jpg
How Can People Deny This? http://hatemonitor.csusb.edu/images/dartmouth/DachauBodiesApril_45.jpg
How Could This Be Denied? http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/0000018e.jpg
Holocaust – The Numbers • Roughly 6 million Jews were murdered • 1/4TH were under 15yrs. Old • 2/3rds of total European Jewish Population • Soviet POW's • 3.3 million • Non-Jewish Poles • 1.8-2 million • Gypsies • 220,000- 270,000 • Disabled • 200,000 - 250,000 • Homosexuals • 5,000 - 15,000 • Jehovahs Witnesses • 2,500 - 5,000 • TOTAL • Roughly 11 million!!!
No leaders to help……. • When they came for the Communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist • When they locked up the social Democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat • When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I was not a Jew • When they came for the Catholics, I remained silent; I was not a Catholic • When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out to • U.S. Holocaust Museum