Persecution of the Jews and others

• Nazi's blamed the Jews for signing the Treaty of Versailles

• Economic problems were blamed on the Jews• The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were anti-Semitic laws

in Nazi Germany which were introduced at the annual Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg.

• Jews were barred from working for the government• Expelled from the army• Banned from being teachers or veterinarians • Not allowed to change their names

HOLOCAUST

Estimated number of Deaths

Concentration Camps

AuschwitzIt's been 64 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp at in southern Poland, where the Nazis killed an estimated 1.5 million people. More than 90 per cent of the victims were Jews. The others were Gypsies, members of the Polish resistance, Soviet POWs & Catholics. When the Red Army reached Auschwitz on Jan. 27. 1945, about 7,000 inmates were alive.

arbeit macht frei

Sorting the prisoners when they arrived at the camps.http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=0597503A-0BF8-423F-9C89-EF340274469A&blnFromSearch=1

The railroad line to Auschwitz. Why didn’t the allies bombthese lines?

Shoes

Glasses

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe also known as the Holocaust Memorial is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, It consists of a 19,000 square meter (4.7 acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. According to Eisenman's project text, the slabs are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.

Assignment: Nazism Reacting to Feminism

• Read p.193-94• Questions 1-3

FASCISM VS. COMMUNISMFASCISM

• Draws support from lower classes & business.

• Makes decisions in the interest of the state.

• Focuses activities on the state.(national)

• Corporate state (private enterprise)

• Elitism• Ultra-nationalism(ethnocentric)• racist

COMMUNISM• Draws support from working

classes.• Makes decisions in the interest of

the working class.• Desire to help working class

around the world. (international)• State ownership of the means of

production.• Nationalities unimportant

(equally)