Holocaust USH-7.4

I. Anti-Semitism Hitler brought back the idea of a superior race Aryan race Used to bring Germans closer and give them a common enemy Policies began slowly and grew In 1933 there was a one day boycott of Jewish businesses

I. Anti-Semitism Nuremberg Laws (1935) stripped Jews of: Citizenship Outlawed marriage between Jews and non-Jews Businesses had to be sold at a loss Doctors and lawyers could not help non-Jews Expelled from public school

I. Anti-Semitism A Jew was defined as: Anyone with 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents regardless of current religion At least 2 Jewish grandparents and a practicing Jew Were forced to wear yellow stars everywhere to ID them

II. Kristallnacht On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis destroyed and looted Jewish homes, stores, and synagogues Night of Broken Glass Thousands of Jews were arrested & sent to concentration camps Other Jews were fined to pay for the damage

III. Holocaust Nazis built concentration camps to deal with undesirables Jews Communists Homosexuals Gypsies Criminals Disabled

III. Holocaust Final Solution Hitler’s plan to eliminate all Jews Created Death Camps to kill Jews The concentration camps were not killing them fast enough Used labor, starvation, abuse, poison gas, medical experiments, etc. Killed more than 6 million Jews and 10 million total

III. Holocaust Allied troops free the camps on the way to Germany Nuremberg Trials War crimes trials of the Nazis in 1945 12 of 24 are sentenced to death The Allies create the nation of Israel as a homeland for the Jews

CFU Who was put in camps? What was the Final Solution? How many die in Holocaust? What were the Nuremburg Trials? Why was Israel created? Undesirables Plan to eliminate all Jews 10,000,000 total War crime trials of Nazi leaders As a homeland for Jews