ANTISEMITISM and the Holocause
The Nuremburg Laws
-1933-39 -Anti Jewish laws -Forced Jews to register and wear star of david -this turned into forcing jews out of careers and homes -Prohibited marriage between Jews and non jewish germans |
The Aryan Race and The Final Solution
-Hitlers original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
-Aryan (nordic race) thought to be superior beings
-Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
-Originally jews were sent to work camps to do manual labor
-July 1941 final solution = extermination of the Jewish race a priority
-carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S. (Groups of murdered, rapists and criminals) (normal people didn't have the mind set for it)
-Shooting and burying them was not fast enough
-Gas chambers became popular
-Made famous places such as Auschwitz
-Hitlers original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
-Aryan (nordic race) thought to be superior beings
-Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
-Originally jews were sent to work camps to do manual labor
-July 1941 final solution = extermination of the Jewish race a priority
-carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S. (Groups of murdered, rapists and criminals) (normal people didn't have the mind set for it)
-Shooting and burying them was not fast enough
-Gas chambers became popular
-Made famous places such as Auschwitz
"Hence today I believe that i am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: 'by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Summary:
As hitler pushed for anti-semitism, he first brought in the Nuremberg laws which continued to The Night of Broken Glass, and later on the Holocaust itself.
As hitler pushed for anti-semitism, he first brought in the Nuremberg laws which continued to The Night of Broken Glass, and later on the Holocaust itself.