The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• World War Looms 3

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I. Persecution Begins

• A. Jews Targeted
• 1. Germans blamed Jews for their failures in
  WWI.
• 2. Hitler preached Anti-Semitism or hatred
  toward Jews.
• 3. The Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their
  German citizenship, jobs, and property.
• 4. Jews had to wear a star of David to identify
  them.

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• B. Kristallnacht
• 1. Night of Broken Glass.
• 2. On November 9-10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers
  attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
  across Germany.

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• C. Plight of the St. Louis
• 1. Thousands of German Jews began to flee
  Germany to other European countries and the U.S.
• 2. However, due to official indifference of the
  Jewish situation in Germany the U.S. forced the
  ship St. Louis to return to Germany because not
  of the occupants had U.S. immigration papers.

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II. Hitlers Final Solution

• A. Definition
• 1. The Final Solution is a policy of genocide,
  which is the deliberate and systematic killing of
  an entire population.

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• B. The Condemned
• 1. Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovahs Witnesses,
  Communists, Jews and Slavs.
• 2. Germans who were unfit to be in the master
  race homosexuals, the mentally deficient, the
  mentally ill, the physically disabled, and the
  incurably ill.

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• C. Steps to Death
• 1. Jews were ordered into ghettos or segregated
  Jewish areas.
• 2. Jews were forced to work and many were shot,
  but the Jews held on.
• 3. Jews were then sent to concentration or labor
  camps. Many Jews were worked to death.

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• 4. The final stage of the Final Solution were
  death camps were Jews were gassed, shot, worked
  to death, injected with poison, and medical
  experiments.
• 5. The Nazis then buried the bodies or burned
  them in huge ovens.
• 6. An estimated 6 million Jews died in death
  camps and in the Nazi massacres.

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