WWII the Holocaust

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WWII the Holocaust
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Anti-Semitic roots

• Competition in religions
• New testament
• History of completion
• Blood libel
• Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

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Why Germany?

• Jews were very integrated into German society
• German myths
• -Siegfried- German hero who was betrayed

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Hitler comes to power

• First moves seemed mild-Jews figured it would
  blow over
• Hitlers goals get Jews to leave Germany
• Jews had nowhere to go. Bad times had happened
  before they always pass
• Begins propaganda war against the Jews
• Goal is to dehumanize them
• Hitlers first moves directed against opponent
  and mentally or physically handicapped
• -24 kinds of people eventually designated for
  concentration camps

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War begins in 1939

• Jews forced into ghettos
• -Warsaw-ghetto most famous
• Calculated to breed starvation, disease
• Germany attacks Poland and later Russia
• -Mobil death squads follow the army
• Warsaw conference
• -The Final Solution to the Jewish question is
  adopted
• Mass deportations to camps empty the ghettos
• -Warsaw uprising
• -100s of concentration camps
• -Six death camps- all in Poland
• -Auschwitz 6,000 people a day were killed ,
  Sobibor, Bergen-Belsen, Mardoaik, Chelmo, and
  Treblinka
• Deportations continued right up till the end of
  the war

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Total Deaths

• 6 million Jews
• 6-8 million non-Jews
• 25 million- total deaths in WWII