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"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't.

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1 "THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.“ - Martin Niemoller, Lutheran Pastor

2 Main entrance to Auschwitz “Work makes one free.”
** What was the purpose behind the “Final Solution?” - Nazi leadership were worried about the emotional turmoil mass shootings were having German soldiers - More “systematic way.” Main entrance to Auschwitz “Work makes one free.”

3 Jewish transfer

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5 - Extermination facilities built at many of the concentration camps
- Designed to kill thousands of people daily

6 A pile of the victims' glasses at Auschwitz.

7 Mountains of shoes in Auschwitz
Mountains of shoes in Auschwitz. All personal property of the victims was confiscated to be given to Germany.

8 384 pounds of gold and silver teeth found in a secret vault.

9 It began with negative images of “the other.”

10 Could this happen here? Published in 1942 “Senator Obama is an Arab”
“Ann Coulter on Peasant Cultures” (start 3:38) Published in 1942

11 Scale (Progression) of Prejudice
1 – “Antilocution” – when a group believes negative images of people outside one’s own group (begins with predilection, forming preferences) 2 – Avoidance – avoiding the minority group; no direct harm in initiated, but psychological harm may result from exclusion 3 – Discrimination – Calculated harm, denying opportunities 4 – Physical Attack – violent attack begins, could also include vandalism 5 – Extermination – genocide, complete elimination of other group * Prejudice? * Discrimination? * Violence? * Hatred?

12 Read “Topic 14, Lesson Two” pages 576 to 584, answering below …
(1) What was the popular American response to President Roosevelt’s 1937 “Quarantine Speech?” (2) Germany surprises French and British forces in the Spring of 1940 by … (3) The importance of Dunkirk … (4) In late 1930’s, why were Americans against involvement in WWII? (5) What did the United States Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 establish? (6) How did the Neutrality Act of 1939 and “Lend-Lease” change U.S. isolationism?


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