The Holocaust

Objectives

Students will be able to identify the origins of European anti-Semitism, and how Nazi Germany carried out the murder of 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews during the Holocaust.

Anti-Semitism vs. Anti-Judaism

Anti-Judaism – Prejudice against or hatred of the practice of Judaism.

Anti-Semitism – Prejudice against or hatred of Jews as a race.

The History of Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism in Europe

http://www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/european-antisemitism-from-its-origins-to-the-holocaust

From the Middle-Ages Jews responsible for the

death of Jesus Responsible for the

Black Death Blood Libel Usury

In Modern Europe Insular communities Stateless people Scapegoats for economic

decline after WWI

The Nazi’s and the Jews

Central to Hitler’s view of the world was anti-Semitism.

This became a cornerstone of Nazi ideology.

Nazism was based on a quest for racial purity and an establishment of a hierarchy of races.

This vision would be carried out through genocide.

The Institutionalization of Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany

The Nuremberg Laws. A set of legal restrictions on Jews. Read article and analyze the Reich

Citizenship Law of September 15, 1935 and Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, September 15, 1935 on the primary source analysis sheet.

Other aspects of Nuremburg Laws Made the swastika the official symbol of

the Reich Deprived Jews of citizenship Jews were forced to wear a yellow Star

of David Forbade marriage or sex between Jews

and non-Jews. Signs prohibiting Jews from restaurants,

movie houses and parks. Jews had to turn over their valuables to

Gentiles Jews were prohibited from a list of

professions and occupations.

Complicity: Some Were Neighbors