Treatment of JewsLesson starter:‘’Nobody knows why Hitler hated the Jews so much.’’

Write down some of the reasons historians have given for Hitler’s hatred of Jews.

Today we will…

• Describe the Nazi Party’s views on race

• Identify the ways in which the Nazis discriminated against the Jewish population

I can…

• Create a timeline outlining the impact of Nazi policy on Jews

• Explain the treatment of Jews using my knowledge in a N5 answer

Starter task

Write down what you think this picture

shows.

• Hitler had used Mein Kampf to write down his ideas about the Jewish Race

• He believed there were superior races such as Aryans

• These were fair skinned people like Germans

• Jews and people from Balkan countries (ie Serbia) were far below Aryans in his ideas

• Untermensch = sub human• He also believed people

were Jewish by blood, so they would not change this

• Hitler wanted to get rid of all the people he hated

• Hitler provided reasons for the groups he hated – but they were often inaccurate views

• He built on existing anti Semitism in Germany

• He blamed the Jews for bad times in Germany’s past

The Jews

• Hitler believed they were responsible for Germany losing WWI

• He said they created Communism

• That they were rich and ruthless

• That they made Germany weak and brought nothing to the country

Other groups• Jehovah’s witnesses

– would not idolise Hitler

• Gypsies – contributed nothing to society

• ‘asocials’ (such as drug users) – problems were hereditary

• Homosexuals – would not repopulate Germany

• Disabled people – should not reproduce and cost Germany too much money

How did life change for

German Jews?

Stage 1Petty Harrassment

• Mainly public discrimination• 1 April 1933 – boycott of

Jewish businesses• Burning of Jewish books• Many Jews made to leave their

jobs and army• Anti-Jewish propaganda• Children’s games were anti-

Jewish• Yellow park benches• Jews encouraged to leave

Germany without their possessions

• 1934 – all Jewish businesses identified with ‘Juden’ on window

Stage 2Nuremberg Laws

Nuremberg Laws 1935• Took away German citizenship

from Jews• Marriage between Jews and

Aryans illegal• Jewish businesses disbanded• Jewish doctors, lawyers not

allowed to have Aryan clients• Jews had a J stamped on their

passports• Aryan women under 45 not

allowed to work for Jews

Stage 3Kristallnacht

KristallnachtThe night of broken Glass

• 9-10 November 1938• The SS (Hitler’s Bodyguard) destroyed Jewish

shops, businesses and synagogues across Germany

• 91 Jews killed• Around 20,000 sent to camps• 400 synagogues burnt down• Over 7500 Jewish shops destroyed• Nazis blame it on Jewish community and fine

them 1 billion marks

Video clips

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/nazi-book-burnings-remembered/7196.html

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/kristallnacht/3278.html

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/kristallnacht-remembered/7197.html

Timeline of Jewish persecution

• You are going to create a timeline on a new double page

• Start at 1 April 1933• All the important events

which persecuted the Jews can be found on pages 68-72 of the textbook in chronological order

• Try to add in how each change/ law altered the lives of Jewish people

N5 Question PracticeN5 Question Practice

1. Explain why life became difficult for Jews in Germany between 1933 and 1939. 6 marks

2. Describe the events of Kristallnacht 1938. 5 marks