1. 24-3: The Holocaust

2. 1933: Thousands of Jews leave Germany Why didn’t France and Britain accept as many German Jews as they might have? France and Britain didn’t want to fuel more feelings of anti-Semitism in their countries

3. 1935: Nuremberg laws are passed What did the Nuremberg laws do? Stripped Jews of their civil rights and property if they tried to leave Germany. Deprived German Jews their citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and other Germans. Forced Jews over 6 years of age to wear Jewish stars sewn to their clothing.

4. 1938: Kristallnacht occurs What happened during Kristallnacht? Kristallnacht = “Night of Broken Glass” Gangs of Nazi storm troopers attack Jewish Homes, businesses and synagogues.

5. 1939: U.S. Coast Guard prevents Jewish refugees on the St. Louis from landing in Miami Why didn’t the United States accept as many German Jews as it might have? Widespread anti-Semitism Desire to avoid greater competition for jobs during the Depression Fear of “enemy agents”

6. 1941: Nazis build 6 death camps in Poland What groups did the Nazis single out for extermination? All non-Aryans, Jews, communists, socialists, liberals, gypsies, free masons, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally retarded, the insane, the disabled, the incurably ill, the Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians The Nazi’s ultimate goal: to create an Aryan super race

7. On Back of Paper: Genocide: Systematic and deliberate killing of an entire group/race of people The “Final Solution” to what the Nazis called the “Jewish Problem” was Genocide of the Jews. Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. Gas chamber and crematorium II - the furnaces. SS photograph, 1943

8. 1945-1949: Nazi leaders are brought to justice for their crimes against humanity How did the Nazis go about exterminating the people who died in the Holocaust? The Nazis shot, beat, starved, gassed and hanged their victims They also worked them to death, injected them with poison, and deliberately killed them in grisly “medical experiments.”