The Nuremburg Laws:
Kristallnacht:
The Holocaust:
- Anti-Jewish Laws.
- Forced Jews to register and wear stars of David.
- This turned into forcing Jews out of jobs and homes.
- Prohibited marriage between Jews and non Jewish Germans.
- Finally, loss of citizenship.
- 1933-1939
Kristallnacht:
- 9 November 1938
- A night when Jewish shop and Synagogue windows that were smashed and burned.
- Many Jews imprisoned.
- State Sanctioned event.
- Many German Jews tried to flee, but the anti-semitism of other countries (including Canada) kept them from fleeing.
The Holocaust:
- Hitler's original idea outlined in Mein Kampf.
- Aryans thought to be superior.
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats.
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour.
- July 1941 final solution = extermination of the Jewish race a priority.
- Carried out by a special group of the SS, called the Einsatzgruppen.
The above cartoon portrays a sentiment held by Germans after 1918, that they did not loose World War I, but were betrayed by civilians on the home front. This cartoon particularly shows the anti-semitic flavour of this myth. Stab-In-The-Back-Myth
Subjunctive Question: How could the Holocaust have been more effectively dealt with if the other countries of the world didn't carry the same Anti-semitic tendencies that Germany did?
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
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