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The Holocaust

• 11.7.5 Discuss the constitutional issues and the
  impact of events on the U.S. home front,
  including the internment of Japanese Americans
  and the restrictions on German and Italian
  resident aliens the RESPONSE of the
  administration to Hitlers atrocities against the
  Jews

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vocabulary

1. Anti-Semitism
2. Nuremberg Laws
3. Kristallnacht
4. Genocide
5. Concentration camp
6. Death camp
7. War Refugee Board

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Hitlers ideology

• Nazi movement based on anti-Semitism
• Jews blames for all of Germanys problems
• Nazis rose to power, 1933 Hitler was the
  Chancellor of Germany
• Jews were persecuted from the start

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Nuremberg Laws

• First attack economic attacked Jewish stores
• Barred Jews from civil service jobs, banking,
  stock exchange, law, journalism and medicine
• Nuremberg Laws denied Jewish citizenship to Jews
• Barred marriage b/w Jews non-Jews
• segregated

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Kristallnacht

• November 9, 1938
• Night of Broken glass
• Jewish refugee killed a German diplomat in Paris
• Nazi officials ordered attacks on Jews in
  Germany, Austria and Sudetenland
• Lead by secret police and military

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• 1,500 synagogues destroyed
• 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses
• Killed 200 Jews
• Injured 600
• Thousands arrested

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Jewish Flight

• 1933-1937 about 129,000 Jews fled Germany and
  Austria
• Not welcomed in other countries
• 1939 the U.S turned away an ocean liner, the St.
  Louis with 900 Jewish refugees
• 600 Jews died later in concentration camps
• 22 were allowed to stay in Cuba

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Ghettos

• Jewish Ghettos
• Forced thousands to live in a few block area, not
  allowed out
• Warsaw- 30 of the population was forced to live
  on 2.5 of the land
• 9.7 people per room
• Poor nutrition
• Germans rationed 2,613 calories per day
• 253 calories per Jew

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Final Solution

• Genocide-to kill with intent any racial,
  political or cultural group
• 1933 first concentration camp opened
• Dachau, Sachsehausen and Buchenwald first
• In theory, these camps were to turn prisoners
  into useful members of society

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Who was sent to concentration camps?

• Labor leaders
• Socialists
• Communists
• Journalists
• Novelists
• Ministers
• priests

• Anyone who spoke out
• Undesirables
• Gypsies
• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Homosexuals
• Beggars
• Disabled
• Mentally ill

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Death Camps

• Auschwitz
• In Poland
• Largest
• Treblinka, Maidenek,
• Sobibor, Belsec and Chelmno
• Millions transported
• Gased
• Carbon monoxide
• Zyklon B (insecticide)

• Converted concentration camps
• Millions shot and buried in ditches
• 11 million dead
• 6 million Jews
• 5 million others

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War Refugee Board

• 1944 FDR est. War Refugee Board
• Worked with Red Cross to save thousands in E.
  Europe

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Liberation

• Camps liberated as territory was won by Allied
  forces
• Full extent of atrocities revealed
• Revelation of Holocaust resulted in increased
  support of est. a Jewish homeland
• Israel
• 1948 State of Israel est.