What was the Holocaust?
Holocaust
1933-1945
Began January 1933 when Adolf Hitler and Nazi
party rose to power
Ended May 1945 when Allied Powers defeated Nazi
Germany
Nazi's Coming to Power
·
didn't immediately start to out mass murder Jews
carry on
did
government to target/exclude Jews from society (antisemitic
·
use
↳ they enacted discriminatory laws and organized violence
↳ the
persecution grew
·
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question" :
mass murder of European Jews
↳
implemented 1941-1945
·
Result :
death of 6 million Jews
Why did the Nazis target Jews?
·
they were antisemetic :
predjudice and hate of Jewish people
↳ antisemitism was root of ideology
Accusation
Nazis accused Jews of causing social , economic , political , and cultural problems
·
blamed for Germany's defect in WWI (1914-1918)
People believed Nazis because of
·
. .
↳
German instability under Weimar Republic
↳ fear of communism
↳ economic shock of Great Depression
Invention of Antisemitism
·
Middle Ages (500-1400) > prejudice based
-
on Christian beliefs (Jews responsible for
death of Jesus)
↳ continued prejudice in early modern Europe (1400-1800
Jews became outsiders
-
-
Europe , also , became less religious >
-
legal restrictions lifted
19th
century belief Jews caused Social/political problems
·
:
↳ racial antisemitism: idea that Jews are separate/inferior race
Nazi's belief on Race
Nazis centered around race-based world view :
World divided by races (some superior t
·
others
Aryan German
:
race most superior
·
,
Jewish
·
race was most inferior
↳> Nazis defined some Christians as Jewish
, Where did the Holocaust take
place ?
German and Axis-controlled Europe
-
↳ a million Jewish found there
How it began
Hilter appointed chancellor in January 1933
·
Nazi German regime (orThird Reich) began excluding Jews
·
Spread
of Persecutions
Nazis created foreign policy > jumpstarted
· -
WW2 (1939)
·
territorial expansion (1938-1939) brought more Jews under German control
↳ Austria Sudetenland , Crech
,
Start
of WW2
began when Germany attacked Poland
·
Germany made alliance with Italy , Hungary Romania and Bulgaria
·
, ,
↳ created puppet states/Slovakia and Croatial
How did Nazi Germany and its allies and collorators persecute Jewish people?
Legal discrimination in form of antisemitic laws (ex Nuremberg Race Laws)
·
.
·
various forms of public identification and exclusion
↳ antisemitic
propaganda
↳
boycotts of Jewish-owned businesses
↳
public humiliation
↳
obligatory marking (ex Jewish
. star badge as armband/or clothing
Organized Violence (ex ,
in Kristallnacht there were violent riots)
physical displacement
·
↳ forced emigration ,
resettlement , expulsion, deportation , ghettoization
Internment
↳
brought Jews to camps and forced-labor
concentration camps
↳
many died of starvation , disease etc. ,
Widespread Theft and Plunder
"
confiscation of Jewish property/personal belongings/valuables
Forced Labor
·
↳ Jew forced to serve Axis war effort or enrichment of Nazi organization
Holocaust
1933-1945
Began January 1933 when Adolf Hitler and Nazi
party rose to power
Ended May 1945 when Allied Powers defeated Nazi
Germany
Nazi's Coming to Power
·
didn't immediately start to out mass murder Jews
carry on
did
government to target/exclude Jews from society (antisemitic
·
use
↳ they enacted discriminatory laws and organized violence
↳ the
persecution grew
·
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question" :
mass murder of European Jews
↳
implemented 1941-1945
·
Result :
death of 6 million Jews
Why did the Nazis target Jews?
·
they were antisemetic :
predjudice and hate of Jewish people
↳ antisemitism was root of ideology
Accusation
Nazis accused Jews of causing social , economic , political , and cultural problems
·
blamed for Germany's defect in WWI (1914-1918)
People believed Nazis because of
·
. .
↳
German instability under Weimar Republic
↳ fear of communism
↳ economic shock of Great Depression
Invention of Antisemitism
·
Middle Ages (500-1400) > prejudice based
-
on Christian beliefs (Jews responsible for
death of Jesus)
↳ continued prejudice in early modern Europe (1400-1800
Jews became outsiders
-
-
Europe , also , became less religious >
-
legal restrictions lifted
19th
century belief Jews caused Social/political problems
·
:
↳ racial antisemitism: idea that Jews are separate/inferior race
Nazi's belief on Race
Nazis centered around race-based world view :
World divided by races (some superior t
·
others
Aryan German
:
race most superior
·
,
Jewish
·
race was most inferior
↳> Nazis defined some Christians as Jewish
, Where did the Holocaust take
place ?
German and Axis-controlled Europe
-
↳ a million Jewish found there
How it began
Hilter appointed chancellor in January 1933
·
Nazi German regime (orThird Reich) began excluding Jews
·
Spread
of Persecutions
Nazis created foreign policy > jumpstarted
· -
WW2 (1939)
·
territorial expansion (1938-1939) brought more Jews under German control
↳ Austria Sudetenland , Crech
,
Start
of WW2
began when Germany attacked Poland
·
Germany made alliance with Italy , Hungary Romania and Bulgaria
·
, ,
↳ created puppet states/Slovakia and Croatial
How did Nazi Germany and its allies and collorators persecute Jewish people?
Legal discrimination in form of antisemitic laws (ex Nuremberg Race Laws)
·
.
·
various forms of public identification and exclusion
↳ antisemitic
propaganda
↳
boycotts of Jewish-owned businesses
↳
public humiliation
↳
obligatory marking (ex Jewish
. star badge as armband/or clothing
Organized Violence (ex ,
in Kristallnacht there were violent riots)
physical displacement
·
↳ forced emigration ,
resettlement , expulsion, deportation , ghettoization
Internment
↳
brought Jews to camps and forced-labor
concentration camps
↳
many died of starvation , disease etc. ,
Widespread Theft and Plunder
"
confiscation of Jewish property/personal belongings/valuables
Forced Labor
·
↳ Jew forced to serve Axis war effort or enrichment of Nazi organization
