The Social Aspect of the Holocaust

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The Social Aspect of the Holocaust
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Your Initial Thoughts

• We know that Hitler was in power during the
  Holocaust but we dont know a whole lot about
  him. We are hoping that this project will help us
  better understand what he did and how he did it.
• We know that the Jews were not the only people in
  concentration camps and we hope to find who else
  was there and why/how they got there.
• We would like to know how the Germans were able
  to distinguish the difference between Jews,
  Polish people, gays , other Germans, and so on.
• Our teacher told us about a scene in the movie
  where the baby is taken away by nazis but there
  is something going on in the background (
  concerning the nazis social class) that is
  important.

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Perspectives Resources

• http//fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/timeline/nazir
  ise.htm
• How did the Nazis come to power?
• http//library.thinkquest.org/12663/summary/whyfra
  me.html
• http//www.candles-museum.com/antsem.htm
• http//www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/why-
  the-jews.shtml

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• "In the course of my life I have very often been
  a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for
  it. During the time of my struggle for power it
  was in the first instance only the Jewish race
  that received my prophecies with laughter when I
  said that I would one day take over the
  leadership of the State, and with it that of the
  whole nation, and that I would then among other
  things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter
  was uproarious, but I think that for some time
  now they have been laughing on the other side of
  their face. Today I will once more be a prophet
  if the international Jewish financiers in and
  outside Europe should succeed in plunging the
  nations once more into a world war, then the
  result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth,
  and thus the victory of Jewry, but the
  annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"
• Adolf Hitler - January 30, 1939

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• Events leading to the Holocaust
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• After World War 1, Germany was poor.
• They lost many men of working age in battle.
• They were left with a meager federal budget to
  feed many who could not feed themselves or work.
• These people were stereotyped as vagrants,
  homosexuals, or the handicapped, because they
  could not work or help populate the country.
• Hitler ca
• me to power through his plan to eliminate the
  worthless.

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• Religion as a Scapegoat
• Hitler chose the Jews to be blamed for Germanys
  Failing economy.
• The Jews (along with Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies,
  emigrants, And political enemies) were supposedly
  taking jobs from the Germans.
• People either believed Hitler, or feared what
  might happen to them if they didnt.

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• Placement in Concentration Camps
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• Germans chose favorites among all of the groups
  that they targeted.
• All groups were put into concentration camps but
  the jews were targeted to be aliminated
• Some prisoners were favored if they had
  information that would give another reason for
  even one more jew to be punished or killed.

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• (Continued)
• In Mr. Gentrys story, all of the prisoners that
  were spared were non-jews because the Nazis would
  not give up the Jews
• In the movie The Devils arithmatic a jewish
  woman with a baby was turned in by a Polish woman
  who sought favor and possibly extra food or
  supplies.
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