The Holocaust

Chapter 24, section 3

Nazi Persecution of the Jews

• The Jews will receive the worst of the racial policies outlined by Hitler in Mein Kampf

• All Jews were considered evil, no matter their religion, job, or education

Nazi Persecution of the Jews

• Nuremberg Laws

• Passed in 1935

• Took citizenship away from Jews

• Banned marriages between Jews and Germans

Nazi Persecution of the Jews

• By summer of 1936, half of Jews were unemployed

• Many Jews leave, but most stayed

Nazi Persecution of the Jews

• Kristallnacht

• Means “night of broken glass”

• Nov.9, 1938, marked beginning of the anti-Jewish violence that erupted in Germany

Nazi Persecution of the Jews

• Jews were rounded up and contained in concentration camps

• Used as slave labor for military industries

• Many were worked to death

Nazi Persecution of the Jews• Jan. 1942, German

leaders will meet at Wannsee Conference to answer the Jewish problem

• Their “final solution” was to create extermination camps and mass execute the Jews

Nazi Persecution of the Jews

• All of the death camps were created outside of the nation in Germany

• Auschwitz will be the deadliest of the camps—over 1.7 million killed

Nazi Persecution of the Jews• Results of the Holocaust:

• 6 million Jews killed (2/3 of European population)

• Millions of others also killed for their “inferiority”

• Numerous German leaders will be executed after WWII for their “Acts against humanity”