1. Flip Learning – Create a mind map that explores how and why the Nazi’s changed the lives of Germany’s young people
In for Monday!

2. Racial Policy, Persecution & the Final Solution

3. Hitler’s beliefs:
Hitler believed that the Germanic or ‘Aryan’ race was a superior ‘master
race’.
His belief led him to conclude that other races were inferior.
The Jews were one of the most inferior races in Hitler’s eyes.
Through the Nazis 12 years in power they persecuted members of other
races and many minority groups such as Gypsies, homosexuals and mentally
handicapped people - they wanted to CLEANSE Germany

4. Read p. 92 Make notes on: What the Nazis believed in
The persecution of minorities – Sterilisation
The ‘euthanasia programme’
Reaction of the public (in terms of the treatment of homosexuals etc.,)

5. Persecution of ‘undesirables’
Undesirables was the term Hitler used for people with mental and physical disabilities
It was those who in his view did not contribute to society
He believed they weakened Germany and went against Germany being a strong nation
About 2,000 people, including 5000 children, were murdered in specially built ‘nursing homes’
Around half a million homeless people, beggars and alcoholics were sent to concentration camps in Many were worked to death. Thousands of prostitutes, homosexuals and ‘problem’ families were sent to the camps too

6. Hitler and the Jews Anti-Semitism means hatred of Jews
Hitler hated Jews insanely. In his years of poverty in Vienna, he became obsessed by the fact that Jews ran many of the most successful businesses, particularly large department stores
This offended his idea of superiority of Aryans

7. Life for Jews under Hitler
Brief overview of treatment of the Jews

8. Source 25, P. 92
Hitler made his views clear in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle). This book was written before Hitler came to power (1925), and therefore shows he had clear racial views before he came to power. “...the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”

9. Early Nazi policies against Jews
Shops
From Jan 1934, all Jewish shops were marked with a yellow star of David or the word Juden (German for Jew). Soldiers stood outside shops turning people away
Laws
The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 banned marriages between Jews and non-Jews. German citizenship was also removed
School
Jewish children were forced out of state schools and ‘Eugenics’ (Race Studies) was introduced in schools
Early Nazi policies against Jews
Work
From March 1933, all Jewish lawyers, judges, teachers (and later doctors) were sacked
Kristallnacht
In Nov 1938 Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses were attacked all over Germany and Austria. About 100 Jews were killed and 20,000 sent to concentration camps

10. Kristallnacht
Nov 1938 a young Jew killed a German diplomat (an official representing their country abroad) in Paris
Goebbels turned this into a opportunity for himself (get in Hitler’s good books!)
Goebbels urged a wide-scale brutal response to the event in Paris
Businesses/homes ruined
Jews murdered
Took to concentration camps

11. The Final Solution When war broke out in 1939, persecution of the Jews
intensified
Jews forced to live in
ghettos
Execution squads went
out in to the countryside
and shot or gassed Jews

12. The death camps
At the Wannsee Conference in 1942 Nazi leaders planned what they called a ‘final solution’ to the Jewish question: the mass murder of every Jew in Nazi-controlled territory
Heinrich Himmler, Head of the SS, oversaw the Final solution
Six death camps were to be built. They contained gas chambers to carry out the murders and large crematoriums to burn the bodies
Around six-million were killed. Jews from all over German-occupied Europe
This is commonly known as the holocaust
Gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents etc., were also killed in the camps

13. Jewish Resistance
Some Jews fought back. They formed resistance groups, attacked German soldiers and blew up railway lines that the Germans were using
In some ghettos there was some resistance
There were occasional rebellions in death camps. In Treblinka camp in 1943, 15 guards were killed and 150 prisoners escaped

14. Read p.94 Make notes on: ‘Germanising’ Western Poland – what was this?
How were the Polish Jews treated? Old/young?
What was the name of the conference where the final solution was decided?
Was the final solution decided from the start? (Internationalists/Structuralists)

15. Look at sources 28 & 29 (p. 92 to 93)
What do both sources suggest?
Why would they both suggest this?
How convincing are both interpretations?

16. How did each of these groups contribute to the genocide? P.94
Flip learning
The Civil Service bureaucracy
Police forces
The SS
The Wehrmacht
Industry
The German people

17. Write your own definitions of the following terms and phrases:
Flip learning:
Write your own definitions of the following terms and phrases:
Master race, ‘undesirables’, Aryan, Ghetto, Final Solution