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Night

• Focus on the Holocaust

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1. Nazi

• The National Socialist German Workers Party
• Enacted numerous measures to restrict the
  freedoms of the Jewish people

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2. Adolf Hitler

• German leader from 1933 until his suicide in 1945
• Used emotional rhetoric to appeal to German
  patriotism and to heighten prejudice against Jews

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3. Heinrich Himmler

• - Military commander and prominent Nazi

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4. Adolf Eichmann
- Believed to be the person who devised the plan
for the final solution
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5. Rudolf Hess
- In charge of Auschwitz
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6. Dr. Josef Mengele
- Performed brutal experiments and operations on
people in concentration camps
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7. Third Reich
- the Third Republic of Germany, led by Hitler
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8. Gestapo
- Secret police whose mission was to prevent
opposition to Hitlers policies
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9. Dachau
- Concentration camp used as a model for other
death camps
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10. Auschwitz
- Largest death camp
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11. Theresienstadt

• Another concentration camp
• Used as a model to deceive visiting Red Cross
  dignitaries about the real nature of the Nazi
  camps

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12. The Final Solution
- Hitlers plan to annihilate Jews in Europe
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13. Anne Frank

• Young German Jew who died in the Bergen-Belsen
  concentration camp
• After WWII, her father returned to the place
  where the family hid from the Nazis and
  discovered Annes diary, which became one of the
  most widely read accounts of experiences during
  the Holocaust.

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14. Kristallnacht

• November 9, 1939
• A night of rampaging against Jews and their
  property throughout Nazi-controlled areas
• Name refers to the prevalence of breaking glass

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15. Nuremberg Laws

• Enacted in 1935
• Laid the basis for legal persecution of Jewish
  people in Germany
• Began the process of depriving the Jews of their
  legal rights

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Why was Germany willing to accept Hitler as a
dictator and to use the Jews as scapegoats?

• The resolution of WWI left a once proud Germany
  in a state of shame. Hitler was able to reawaken
  national pride and to draw vast audiences of
  supportive listeners. His rhetoric convinced
  many people that Jews were the cause of all that
  was wrong with Germany.

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What forms of propaganda did Hitler use to
indoctrinate and train German youth, control
adult society, and deceive the world?

• - Hitler controlled the media, destroyed books,
  and had textbooks rewritten to align instruction
  with Nazi guidelines.
• - He used positive images for everything
  connected with Nazism and negative images for
  everything connected with the Jews.

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Could propaganda be used in the United States
today to create hatred against a minority group?

• Propaganda can be very powerful because it
  capitalizes on peoples prejudices and fears.
• Also provides scapegoats to be blamed for
  everything that is not going right, meaning that
  people then do not have to blame themselves

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Do you think a country like the United States
could ever find itself engaged in a genocide?

• One would hope the U.S. will never devolve to
  genocide, but it is important to remember that
  Germany in the 1930s and 1940s was a very
  civilized nation.
• U.S. history includes cruel treatment of Native
  Americans that resulted in decimation of that
  population.
• Illegal aliens sometimes bear the brunt of blame
  for economic problems.