1. The Quest for a Pure Germany

2.  Jews vs Arabs in Middle East  Jews are always immigrants world-wide  Economic reputation as wealthy, stingy, savvy with money  Political reputation as plotters of world dominance  Fear of Zionism—a Jewish homeland in Palestine would be like a Vatican-a headquarters for spreading their ideas

3.  Several times in European history, Jews were targeted for expulsion from the area or killed: Ancient Greece & Rome Some Christians since their beginnings— “Jews killed Jesus” Spanish Inquisition (1492) Late 1800s Europe—grew into Nazism; a racial ideology

4.  Extreme nationalism: Purify Germany. Leave only Aryans.  Jews as a race, were seen as the #1 threat to national security & purity scapegoat  Hitler’s message was meant to be taken as a whole—if you didn’t like part of it, get over it  Read the excerpts from Mein Kampf to try and grasp Hitler’s antisemitism

5.  525,000 Jews lived in Germany  No real sense of panic—Jews were directed to remain calm  Would the Nazis even stay in power?  Most discrimination included boycotting Jewish stores, breaking their windows, avoiding them in public/disassociation  Some killings by SA/SS/Gestapo

6.  Jews  Anyone with birth defects—and they were supposed to be sterilized so as not to have children with birth defects  Gypsies (Roma), while technically Aryan, had mingled with the lowest classes of society and were therefore tainted: “criminally asocial”  Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and anyone who helped save any of the above

7.  Improving the genetic makeup of a population through the application of science…  “It will be the task of the People's State to make the race the centre of the life of the community. It must make sure that the purity of the racial strain will be preserved. It must proclaim the truth that the child is the most valuable possession a people can have. It must see to it that only those who are healthy shall beget children; that there is only one infamy, namely, for parents that are ill or show hereditary defects to bring children into the world and that in such cases it is a high honour to refrain from doing so.”

8.  http://fcit.usf.edu/ho locaust/resource/doc ument/DocEuth.htm

9.  1933: All Jewish business boycotted Marriages between Christians and Jews prohibited Jewish University professors’ classes were abandoned 37,000 of the 525,000 German Jews emigrated  1934: Night of the Long Knives (eliminated all other rivals for power—Hitler is it.)

10.  1935: Nuremburg Laws: 1. Reich flag law—black, red, & white are national colors, swastika is the national flag 2. Citizenship law—distinction between “citizens” of the Reich (Germans) and “subjects” of it (all foreigners) 3. Law for the Defense of German Blood & Honor—forbade marriages & all relations between Germans and Jews (Many German Jews at this point hoped for a manageable segregated but lawful society now.)

11.  1936: Olympic Games held in Berlin—no anti-semitism shown to the world-- greatest propaganda feat of all time?  1938: Anschluss: The annexation of Austria to Germany; antisemitic behavior was rampant there immediately  All German Jews turned in their passports (no leaving) and had to get Jewish identity cards

12.  November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht: “The Night of Broken Glass” Look up http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/knacht.htm http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/knacht.htm In the aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, German propaganda minister Goebbels announced: "The German people is anti-Semitic. It has no desire to have its rights restricted or to be provoked in the future by parasites of the Jewish race."KristallnachtGoebbels

13.  http://www.history place.com/worldwa r2/timeline/knacht. htm

15.  September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland All Polish Jews must wear Star of David  1939: First Polish ghetto is established Concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald are used—see link  1939-1941: Increasing use of ghettos to contain Jews and building of new concentration camps

17. Auschwitz

18.  1942: Many Jews in concentration camps are sent to Auschwitz/death camps  1942-1944: Majority of the captured Jews, gypsies, and others are deported to locations to be killed—6 extermination camps in Poland; ghettos are destroyed Resistance movements occur  1945: Allies (USA, USSR mostly) liberate concentration camps

19. Jewish people killed as a % of their pre- war population

20.  11,000,000 killed (6 m Jews, 5 m others)  Or, 15-20 million killed &/or imprisoned  30,000 slave labor camps  1150 Jewish ghettos  980 concentration camps  500 brothels with sex slaves  Thousands of other camps for euthanizing the elderly, “purifying” & “Germanizing” people, sterilizing facilities…