stages of the holocaust
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- Anti-Semitism / Stages of the Holocaust World History
- History of Anti-Semitism
- Cultural differences made the Jews standout
- Jews generally lived in close-knit communities
- Have been demonized, discriminated against by Christians for 2000 years
- Christianity needed Judaism as a contrast - to make Christianity look better, to act as a scapegoat
- History of Anti-Semitism
- 30 CE - Christ is killed.
- 325 CE - Christianity becomes official religion of the Roman Empire. Jews negatively portrayed.
- 5th-7th Centuries - Violence escalates
- Middle Ages - Jews less than human, killed in the Crusades, demonized, blamed for Black Death
- History of Anti-Semitism
- Renaissance/Reformation - Jews had to wear badges or cones on head, in Italy and Germany they were separated into ghettos
- Spanish Inquisition
- 17th-18th Century tensions eased
- Anti-Semitism in Germany
- .08% of population (~500,000)
- Fully integrated into Germany society
- Supported WWI and the German Empire
- Mostly lived in large cities
- Anti-Semitism in Germany
- Hitler blamed Jews/Marxists for loss of WWI
- The Aryan Race - Pure Germans superior
- Incorrectly names Jews as a race
- Struggle for world domination
- History and biology changed to match anti-Semitic views
- Boycott of Jewish Businesses
- 1933 - Germany
- Sets up idea that Jews are not Germans and isolates them
- SA pickets, wearing boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. The signs read: "Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German shops!" and "Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!"
- Two Nazi stormtroopers stand guard in front of the H. L. Heimann store in Bopfingen, to prevent would-be shoppers from violating the Nazi boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
- Nuremberg Laws
- Germany - 1935
- Defined who was a Jew
- Deprived Jews of political rights
- Kristallnacht
- 1938 - Germany
- Night of the Broken Glass
- Organized violence against Jews throughout Germany and Austria
- The fire department only made sure the fire did not spread to the building next to the synagogue
- View of the interior of the Essenweinstrasse synagogue in Nuremberg following its destruction during Kristallnacht.
- Ghettos
- 1939-45 - German occupied territories
- Small areas of a city where Jews were isolated
- Einsatzgruppen
- 1941 - Poland and Russia
- Mobile Killing Squads
- Deportations
- 1939-1945 - Throughout Europe
- Movement of Jews to ghettos and then to camps
- Jews board a deportation train at the railroad station in Wrzburg.
- Hundreds of Jews wait to board deportation trains at the railroad station in Wrzburg. Their luggage and bed rolls are piled in the center of the platform.
- Jews from the Lodz ghetto board deportation trains for the Chelmno death camp
- Camps
- 1939-1945 - Throughout Europe
- Different types: labor camps, concentration camps, and death camps
- Work makes one free
- Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. Germany, April 1945.
- Liberation
- 1944-45 - Throughout Europe
- Allies liberate camps