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The Nuremburg Laws
- 1933-39 Anti-Jewish laws
- Hitler believed Jews were richer and caused unemployment and WWI
- Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David
- then forced Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans
- Finally loss of citizenship
Kristallnacht
- 9 November 1938
- Jewish shops were smashed
- Jews were imprisoned
- Kristall (glass) Nacht (night)
Propaganda, Lebensraum and Mass Rallies
- Josef Goebbels - the propaganda minister
- Effected German life
- Promoted Aryan Race, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Communism, Lebensraum (living space in the east)
- Organized mass rallies for army and citizens
- Nuremburg night rallies the most famous
- Nazis were the best dressed military as Hugo Boss made uniforms
The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps
- July 1941, Final Solution -> sent Jews to death camp, Holocaust
- carried by Einsatzgruppen, a special section of S.S. where criminals are taken from the prison
- shooting and burying was not fast enough so they used gas chambers
- made famous places like Auschwitz
The Holocaust
- Holocaust before WWII referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- New York Times in Jan. 1942 reported 100,000 Jews had been machine gunned in the Baltic States
- July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the Soviets liberated a camp called Majdanek
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- 6 million Jews died
Summary
Hitler brought in laws against Jews. They started from forcing them out of their houses and ended up in a death camp, the Holocaust.