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Glossary • Anti-Semitism: Discrimination against or prejudice or
hostility toward Jews
• Holocaust: The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II
• Genocide: The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
• Aryan: Refered to the blond-haired, blue-eyed physical ideal of Nazi Germany
• The “Final Solution”: Refers to the Nazis plan to annihilate the Jewish people
Origins Of HateOrigins Of Hate
At the end of world war one, germans (including hitler) Blamed the jews for
germany’s defeat
During Hitler’s Imprisonment in 1923, he wrote the memoir and propaganda tract "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), in which he
predicted a general European war that would result in "the extermination of the Jewish race
in Germany"
Hitler became obsessed with the purification of germany where the ideal race would be
“Aryan”
In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000, or only 1 percent of the total
German population
At the end of world war one, germans (including hitler) Blamed the jews for
germany’s defeat
During Hitler’s Imprisonment in 1923, he wrote the memoir and propaganda tract "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), in which he
predicted a general European war that would result in "the extermination of the Jewish race
in Germany"
Hitler became obsessed with the purification of germany where the ideal race would be
“Aryan”
In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000, or only 1 percent of the total
German population
Treatment of Jew prior to war
• 1933: Nazis exclude Jews from the Arts. Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land and Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.
• 1934: Jews not allowed national health insurance
• 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws Enacted (click the above and Read about race laws)
• 1938: Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass (Click above and read about Kristallnacht)
• Jews are forced into Ghettos and then into concentration camps
Concentration CampsConcentration Camps
Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the
ghettoes in Poland to the concentration camps
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most famous concentration camp where From spring 1942 until the fall
of 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers
from all over Nazi-occupied Europe approximately three million people
had died there (2.5 million exterminated, and 500,000 from
disease and starvation
Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the
ghettoes in Poland to the concentration camps
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most famous concentration camp where From spring 1942 until the fall
of 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers
from all over Nazi-occupied Europe approximately three million people
had died there (2.5 million exterminated, and 500,000 from
disease and starvation
The “Final Solution”After the June 1941 German
invasion of the Soviet Union, SS and police units (acting as mobile killing units) began
massive killing operations aimed at entire Jewish communities
In its entirety, the "Final Solution" called for the murder of all European Jews by gassing, shooting, and other means. Approximately
six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed during the Holocaust -- two-thirds of the Jews living in Europe before
World War II
Concentration Camps were liberated by soviet and american troops in 1945
Note to ReaderNote to ReaderThe Holocaust is a very difficult topic to cover in
a week I encourage all of you to read more and go into
more depth