Part One of Holocaust Unit

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Part One of Holocaust Unit
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Germany Government after WWI

• Monarch leader Kaiser Wilhelm II flees Germany to
  the Netherlands abdicating his throne.
• Allies want Wilhelm punished,
• Netherlands wont give him up.
• As of January 1920 Germany is without a leader.
  The Allies help set up an interim government.

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Germany 1933-1939

• January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed
  Chancellor of Germany

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Germany 1933-1939

• February 28, 1933 German government takes away
  freedom of speech, assembly, press, and privacy
  (arresting anyone who spoke out against the
  Nazis)
• March 22, 1933 first concentration camp opens
  at Dachau, Germany

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Dachau

• Dachau was built because prisons were overflowing
• Nazis didnt have money to built more prisons, so
  they built work camps
• SS troops used Dachau to train for work in the
  death camps

When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
 
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Dachau
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Dachau
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Dachau
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Dachau
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Germany 1933-1939

• March 23, 1933-Hitler becomes dictator of Germany
• April 1, 1933 Nationwide boycott of
  Jewish-owned businesses in Germany

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Germany 1933-1939

• May 10, 1933 Jewish books burned
• July 14, 1933 Laws passed in Germany permitting
  the forced sterilization of Gypsies, the mentally
  and physically disabled, and African-Germans

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Germany 1933-1939

• March 17, 1935 Nazis invades the Rhineland
• April 1935 Jehovahs Witnesses are arrested

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Germany 1933-1939

• September 15, 1935 - Nuremberg Laws established.
  Starting immediately
• A citizen is one is considered to be pure blood
  per the government. You must be born in Germany
  and your parents and grandparents must be pure
  blood also.
• You must be faithful to the government.

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Nuremberg Laws Continued

1. The state decides who will receive a certificate
   of citizenship.
2. Only citizens receive rights and protection
3. Marriages between citizens and non-citizens are
   forbidden.
4. Non-citizens can only fly the flag of their
   origin.

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Nuremberg Laws Continued

• Non-citizens have no voting rights and cannot
  hold public office.
• Non-citizens are forbidden to own or operate
  stores, mail order businesses, sales agencies,
  carry on any trade or hold any executive
  position.
• Non-citizens are not entitled to any pension or
  compensation when terminated.

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• These new laws made
• the JEWS
• NON-CITIZENS

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1936 Olympics

• .

Summer 1936 Olympic games take place in
Berlin. Anti-Jewish signs are removed until
games are over
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1936 Olympics
Inaugurating a new Olympic ritual, a lone runner
arrived bearing a torch carried by relay from the
site of the ancient Games in Olympia, Greece
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1936 Olympics
The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games was the perfect
opportunity for the Nazis to prove to the world
the reality of the Master Race.
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1936 Olympics
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African American Athletes

• Jesse Owens, "the fastest human being," captured
  four gold medals and became the hero of the
  Olympics.

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After the Games

• "I'm afraid the Nazis have succeeded with their
  propaganda. First, the Nazis have run the Games
  on a lavish scale never before experienced, and
  this has appealed to the athletes. Second, the
  Nazis have put up a very good front for the
  general visitors, especially the big
  businessmen."
• Foreign correspondent William Shirer in his
  diary, Berlin,
• August 16, 1936

In 1940 the Olympic Games will take place in
Tokyo. But thereafter they will take place in
Germany for all time to come, in this stadium."
Adolf Hitler, in conversation with Albert
Speer, general architectural inspector
for the Reich, spring 1937
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2 Years Later

• March 13, 1938 Austria is annexed by Germany
• 600,000 Jews lived in Germany when the Nazis took
  power. With the annexation the number of Jews
  targeted has risen to 800,000.
• July 6-15, 1938-representatives from 32
  countries meet in Evian, France to discuss
  refugee policies.

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U.S.A Immigration Policy

• As of 1924 the U.S.A was only letting in 150,000
  TOTAL immigrants a year.
• As of 1930 the U.S.A. let in 15,000 German
  immigrants
• In 1939 it was raised to 27,300

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Germany 1933 - 1939

• November 9-10, 1938 Nazis burn Jewish
  synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses
  called Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass).
  Nearly 30,000 German and Austrian Jewish men are
  deported to concentration camps. Many Jewish
  women are jailed.

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Kristallnacht
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Kristallnacht
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Germany 1933 - 1939

• March 15, 1939 German troops invade
  Czechoslovakia
• May 13, 1939 - the S.S. St. Louis leaves Germany
  for Cuba

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S.S. St. Louis
937 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from
Nazi Germany
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