The Holocaust

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The Holocaust
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The beginning
Holocaust the Nazi attempt to kill all Jews
under their control result of racist ideology of
Nazis any undesirables were persecuted only
the Aryan race should survive (Germanic, Nordic,
Anglo-Saxon blood) Anti-Semitism hatred of
Jews Hitler blames them for all Germanys
problems things like communism, abstract
painting, and defeat in WWI Begins with an
economic attack boycott Jewish businesses, bars
Jews from civil service jobs, banking, stock
exchange, law, journalism, and medicine Nuremberg
Laws come next denies German citizenship to
Jews, bans marriage between Jews and non-Jews,
segregates Jews at every level of society Hints
there will be a Final Solution to the Jewish
question
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Kristallnacht
Nov. 9, 1938 known as Kristallnacht (Night of
Broken Glass) happened after a Jewish refugee
killed a German diplomat in Paris Nazi
officials order attacks on Jews in Germany,
Austria, and Sudetenland (all he had conquered at
that point) secret police and military destroy
1500 synagogues and 7500 Jewish-owned businesses,
kill 200 Jews, injure 600 and arrest 1000s
https//www.youtube.com/watch?vynypuxgCbH4
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Other Obstacles
Between 1933-37, 129,000 Jews flee Germany and
Austria, including Einstein More may have left,
but really werent welcomed in other
countries Due to Depression and lack of jobs and
anti-Semitism, The U.S. and other countries shut
their doors The St. Louis sails with 900 Jews
and cant find anyone to take them return to
Germany and their eventual deaths
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The final solution
Genocide the willful annihilation of a racial
political, or cultural group 1933 first
concentration camp opens areas include Dachau,
Sachsenhausen, and Buchenwald All enemies of
the state were placed in camps each designated
by color-coded patches Purple Jehovahs
Witnesses Yellow Jew Pink homosexual Red
Political Prisoner Blue Immigrant Green
Criminal Black antisocial Included anyone who
spoke out against Hitler labor leaders,
socialists, communists, ministers, priests,
Gypsies, beggars, physically and mentally
disabled and many others
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Prisoners were tattooed with numbers (numbers
make them not human) and dressed in vertically
striped uniforms Within prison walls, guards
could do as they pleased Death by starvation
and disease was an everyday occurrence doctors
conducted horrible experiments Poland was home
to large groups of Jews Warsaw, Lodz, and other
cities Jews were forced to live in crowded
areas known as ghettos additional camps were
constructed By 1942 Nazi officials were ready
to move ahead with the Final Solution
extermination of 11,000,000 Jews some camps,
especially in Poland, were designated as death
camps largest death camp was Auschwitz, also
Treblinka, Maidenek, Sobibor, Belsec and
Chelmno forced into death chambers that were
pumped in carbon monoxide and showers that
released deadly insecticide human fat was
turned into soap hair was woen into wi,
slippers, etc cash, gold fillings, wedding rings
were stripped from the bodies bodies were then
burned Some were simply lined up and shot By
1945 6 million Jews had been murdered 5
million others had died
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http//video.about.com/history1900s/Nazi-Concentra
tion-Camps.htm https//www.youtube.com/watch?vHN
JlLBD-EO0 http//www.britishpathe.com/video/conce
ntration-camp-footage
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Allies response to the holocaust
Could it have been prevented? relaxed
immigration policies might have helped our State
Dept made a conscious effort to block Jewish
immigration why? As the horrors of the camps
begins to be reported once we enter the war, and
effort is made to rescue Jews not until 1944 did
FDR respond by establishing the War Refugee Board
working with the Red Cross saving many Jews,
especially in Romania and Hungary Stalin had no
concern over the death camps, although his
country is the closest As our soldiers began to
liberate the camps, Americans began to get the
whole picture leads ti support of an
independent Jewish homeland in 1948 when the
Jewish community proclaimed the State of Israel,
President Truman immediately recognized the
nation https//www.youtube.com/watch?vCmyP-ljev6
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