1. Holocaust
USH-7.4

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. III. Holocaust Final Solution Hitler’s plan to eliminate all Jews
Created Death Camps to kill Jews
Killed more than 6 million Jews and 10 million total
Used labor, starvation, abuse, poison gas, medical experiments, etc.

8. 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