Eight Stages of Genocide – Germany and Europe 1933-45
Using the handout (“Eight Stages of Genocide) decide which of the stages the
following images/events fits in to. Give 2-3 reasons (in point form) for your choice.
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Illustration from Anti-Semitic Book
Source:
Robert Ley, Pesthauch der Welt (The
Pestilential Miasma of the World)
(Dresden: Franz Müller Verlag, 1944).
STAGE REPRESENTED: ____
REASONS:
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Chapter I: Human Inequality
Excerpt from Hitler Youth Handbook
STAGE REPRESENTED: ____
REASONS:
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The foundation of the National Socialist
worldview is the knowledge of human
inequality. No one will likely disagree
with this as long as we stick to physical
appearance. It is obvious that the "red
skins," the "yellow people," the Negroes
and the whites are very different. And all
whites are not the same. The careful
observer can find differences in physical
size and shape. The color of the eyes,
hair, and skin also varies greatly.
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Source:
Fritz Bennecke, Vom deutschen Volk und seinem
Lebensraum, Handbuch für die Schulung in der
HJ (Munich: Franz Eher, 1937).
Photograph from Krakow,
Poland, 1940-41
STAGE REPRESENTED: ____
REASONS:
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A synagogue has been converted into a temporary shelter to
house Jewish families forced to move into the ghetto in KrakowPodgorze. (1940 - 1941)
Photograph from the Main Commission for the
Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, courtesy of USHMM
Photo Archives.
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Photograph of Prisoners
at Buchenwald Camp,
19451
STAGE
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REASONS:
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Elie Wiesel appears in this photograph in the second row, 7 th from the left, next to the vertical post.
Nuremberg Law for the Protection of
German Blood and German Honor
(September 15, 1935)
Excerpt from the Nuremberg Laws, passed
in Germany in 1935.
STAGE REPRESENTED: ____
I.
REASONS:
1. Marriage between Jews and
subjects of the state of German or
related blood are forbidden.
Marriages nevertheless concluded
are invalid, even if concluded
abroad to circumvent this law.
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Photograph of Fred Leuchter in the 1990’s. His pseudoscientific tests on the remains of gas chambers in concentrations
camps “proved” that no mass-murder by gas could have taken
place there.
STAGE REPRESENTED: ____
REASONS:_____________________________________
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View of the Crematorium at
the Dachau Concentration
Camp – 1945
STAGE REPRESENTED:____
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Photograph from Martin Pearlman Collection, courtesy of
USHMM Photo Archives.
The new crematorium in Dachau, which was completed in May 1944.
(April 29 - May 1945)
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