Unit 4 Lesson 7 (Section 25.3)

 Define the problem of anti-Semitism in Germany and tell how the Jewish people were used as scapegoats.  Explain how Germany’s policies towards Jews developed into genocide.

 Explain how the Allies closed in for victory in Europe.  US & GB attacked N.Africa, then moved North into Italy  RUS defended Stalingrad & pushed West  US attacked GRM in FRA (D-Day) and pushed East  RUS captures Berlin, Mussolini executed, Hitler kills self

 Mein Kampf Mein Kampf  Master Aryan Race  Rid of “undesirables”  Anti-Semitism  Nuremburg Laws:  Strip Jews of all citizenship rights, exclude from society  Marked w/Jewish star  Kristallnacht:  Nov 9-10, 1938  Night Broken Glass  Emigration  ¼ fled  Euro, US, “Palestine” – resent #s

 Ghettos  Confined living spaces w/ brutal conditions, 1000s died  Most in Poland – 2m Jews  Uprising 1943  Einsatzgruppen-  Mobile killing squads (Killed 1.5m b/t )  Wannsee Conference  Genocide - deliberate destruction of group  “Final Solution” to Jewish problem

 “Undesirables”  Jews  Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, homeless, mentally ill, homosexuals  Labor & prison camps.  Supervised by SS  Humiliated, tattooed, stripped of all valuables overworked, starved, beaten, shot…. 48E9-90DE C&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

 Death Camps  Auschwitz & 5 others (Poland)  Gas Chambers  “Shower Rooms”  Medical experiments  Buried at first…cremated later.

 Survivors liberated by Allies  WRB – ’44 – US rescue & protection  Death Marches (44- 45)  6 million Jewish people die  4 million other undesirables die

 Nov 1945-Oct 1946  Internatl Military Tribunal (IMT)…  24 Nazis and 6 German Org’s for…  Crimes against peace  War crimes  Crimes against humanity  All plead not guilty “following orders”  12 death penalty  8 prison, 3 acquitted

 Describe the role that propaganda played in manipulating the thoughts and actions of the German people.  Anne Frank is famous for her statement that, despite her experiences during World War II, she still believed in the goodness of people. Knowing what you know about the events that transpired in Nazi concentration camps, do you have the same belief? Discuss the argument that the Nazi soldiers “were following orders” when they committed these war crimes.  Discuss the meaning of the Holocaust Memorial inscription, “We must bear witness.” What do you think is the better way to understand the Holocaust, by learning historic facts or by hearing survivor stories? Explain your response

 The Holocaust was a human tragedy on a global scale. Millions of lives were exterminated by Hitler and the Nazis, and many more people died trying to stop them. Do you believe it’s possible that a similar tragedy could still happen in the world today, even though the human race has already experienced it before? Why or why not? Are similar, smaller events going on right now (and in the recent past)? If so, why do you think they are happening