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 You must either AGREE or
DISAGREE
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2. Each member must then share their response with the group
and give reasons for their answer.
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The Nuremberg Laws enacted by the Nazi Party
• meeting at Nuremberg September 15th
• deprive Jews of German citizenship
• forbid intermarriage with Jews and made relationships between
“Aryans” and Jews punishable by death to prevent “racial pollution.”
The basic definition of a Jew published November 14th
• defines the categories of mixed offspring, or mischlinge.
• The first degree includes anyone with two Jewish grandparents
• The second degree anyone with one Jewish grandparent.
Buchenwald concentration camp opens July 16.
The first inmates are mostly political prisoners of every religious belief
Most of the 238,980 inmates who will ultimately be sent to Buchenwald will
be Jews, and 56,545 will die in the gas chambers.
Germany evicts Jews from trade and industry
Orders them to wear yellow badges displaying the six-pointed “star-of-David,”
Bans them from all parks, places of entertainment, health resorts, and public institutions.
Romania forbids Jews to own land and bars them from the professions at year’s end under legislation put through the
newly installed Prime Minister Octavian Goga.
Nazis deprive Austrian Jews of their civil rights and means of
livelihood
• they plunder Jewish shops and homes.
Italy enacts anti-Jewish legislation.
November 9th
• Nazis smash Jewish shop windows in the Kristalnacht (“night of broken
glass”), shops, homes, and synagogues are looted, demolished, and
burned.
• 20,000 to 30,000 Jews are carried off to concentration camps.
"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have
usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for
power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received
my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take
over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation,
and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem.
Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now
they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will
once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and
outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more
into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the
earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the
Jewish race in Europe!"
Adolf Hitler - January 30, 1939
German foreign
minister von
Ribbentrop sends a
circular to diplomatic
and consular offices
January 25 under the
title “The Jewish
Question, a Factor in
our Foreign Policy for
1938.”
• Part of which states “This disease in the body of our people had
first to be eradicated before the Great German Reich could
assemble its forces in 1938 to overcome the will of the world.”
The S.S. St. Louis
leaves Hamburg May
13 with 937 Jewish
refugees.
• It is the last shipload to leave before the war begins.
• The passengers are refused admission to Cuba, and the United
States.
• Britain, France, Belgium, and Holland admit the refugees at the
last moment.
• Brazil agrees on June 24 to permit entry of 3,000 German Jewish
refugees.
World War II begins
September 1st, with
the invasion of Poland.
• Hitler has set into motion his plan.
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The Nazis extend persecution of Jews to:
 Poland, Romania, the Netherlands, and other
occupied territories.
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SS troops surround a densely populated
Jewish area in January
 Herd thousands of half-naked polish men, and
women into a large square, beat them, and keep
them standing for hours.
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Mobile Units could not keep up with the
number of Jews that were in occupied areas
 Started to segregate Jews into “ghettos”
▪ Small areas of the cities surrounded by guards and
fences.
▪ Eventually, the Jews are rounded up and sent to various
Labour and Concentration Camps
▪ Many do not make it out alive
It is one of those things which is easy to say.
‘The Jewish race is to be exterminated,’ says
every party member. ‘That's clear, it's part of
our program, elimination of the Jews,
extermination, right, we'll do it.’
Heinrich Himmler to about 100 SS Group Leaders in Posen, occupied Poland.
Adolf Hitler signed the
“Final Solution” to “Europe’s
‘Jewish problem’.”
Adolf Eichmann
proposes “killing with
showers of carbon
monoxide while bathing”
German SS units machinegun 3,000 Jewish men,
women, and children to
death in the suburbs of
Minsk and Mogilev while
German authorities stand
by.
If caught:
Estonian, Galician, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Polish, and
Russian Jews flee
•drafted into labor gangs,
driven into ghettos, forced into
military brothels, massacred
with machine-guns, or shipped
to detention camps.
the cyanide gas Zyklon B
is found to be more
effective.
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Accounts of prisoners entering the Death
Camps:
 It was early Spring and small white specks fell to
the ground. They thought it was snow, but in
reality it was the ashes of prisoners that had just
been cremated.
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2,000 Parisian Jews are rounded up by police
officers on July 16th.
 The German Army buses them out of the city to
Nazi concentration camps.
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8,000 Greek Jews are transferred from
Salonkia to concentration camps.
April 18, The Battle of
the Warsaw Ghetto
begins and lasts 6 weeks.
Heinrich Himmler states:
• The final results are 5,000 Jews killed.
• 500,000 Jews had been locked into an area that had
accommodated half that number.
• 20,000 Jews are deported to concentration camps in
response.
•“we will never speak of it in public, the
destruction of the Jews will remain forever an
unwritten and never-to-be-written page of
glory.”
The SS in Denmark begin •The Danes help most of their Jewish
rounding up Danish Jews compatriots escape to safety in
Sweden
in October.
Amsterdam- Otto Frank and his family are betrayed to the Gestapo
on August 4th after hiding for over 2 years and is deported with his
family in the last convoy of cattle trucks to Auschwitz.
Frank’s daughter Anne, 15, is shipped to Bergen-Belsen where she
dies.
Anne’s diary, which fills three notebooks, will be discovered at 263
Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, which chronicles the period of her
and her family’s hidden life.
26 January, Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz but find fewer
than 3,000 prisoners at the camp.
• over 1 million have died in Nazi gas chambers. The SS has removed the
rest to camps inside Germany.
11 April, Gen Patton liberates Buchenwald after 60,000
have perished there.
24 April, Dachau is liberated by the Allies where 500,000
are rescued.
Nazi genocide has killed an estimated 14 million gypsies,
Poles, Slavs and close to 6 million Jews.
• One third of the world’s Jews have died in Nazi death camps in 6 years.
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The Allies were in shock by what they saw in
the camps.
The question remained: “How did they not
know what was going on?”
 Many were made to tour the camps to understand
the full extent of what took place so close to
home.
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Allies made the remaining guards do much of
the clean-up from the camps
Group task – attempt to fill out the
entire sheet with vocabulary relating
to the Holocaust. Can be events,
emotions, names, etc