Study Questions February 26th, What was the new racial order proposed by the Nazis? Pg. 502  The Aryans, Hitler’s “master race” 2. What were the Nuremberg Laws? Pg. 502  German laws that deprived Jews of basic rights 3. What were the Jewish ghettos? Pg. 503  Segregated cities, walled off by the Nazi’s, where Jews were supposed to live

Study Questions 3/2/15  What Nazi action marked the final stage of the “Final Solution?” (Pg 504)  How did some non-Jews oppose Hitler’s “Final Solution?” (Pg. 505)

Objectives 1. Explain the course of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. (Kristallnacht, ghettos, Final Solution.) Define each of these terms? 2. What were the results of the Final Solution?

Review  Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor  U.S. Declares War on Japan  Japanese Battle Victories  Battle of Coral Sea ( What did the U.S. Stop, and what was the new Naval Warfare used?)  Battle of Midway  Guadalcanal (What were the Japanese building?)

10:8:5  Analyze the policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews, its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

The Holocaust: Ch. 16.3

 Main Idea:  During the Holocaust Hitler’s Nazis killed six million Jews and 5 million “non-Aryans”.  Why it Matters:  Violence against Jews during the Holocaust leads to the founding of Israel after WWII.  Setting the Stage:  Nazi propose a new racial order.  Aryans were a “master race”  Misuse of the word Aryan  All non-Aryan’s, especially Jews were inferior.

What is Aryan?  The ideal Aryan…  Blonde hair  Blue eyes  Caucasian (white skin)  Speaks German

European Persecution of Jews  Occurred throughout history:  Roman’s  Russian’s (Pogrom’s)  Nazi’s  German’s blame Jew’s for:  Loss of WWI  Post WWI depression

Why Jews?  Jews were the minority  During the depression, many Jews were successful  Culture was different  Racism

Nazi’s take Power  1935 Nuremberg Laws:  Jewish people could not…  … be citizens  … marry non-Jews  … hold certain jobs  People with Jewish grandparents, who had converted to Christianity, were defined as Jews. Jew’s forced to wear “Star of David”

 Nov. 1938: - Jewish youth (Herschel Grynszpan) shot a German diplomat - Nazis launched attacks on Jewish communities Nazis Seize Opportunity

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) Storm troopers attack Jewish…  … homes  … synagogues  … businesses ** 100 Jews die ** Violence now organized by the state * Many Jews will leave Germany

Jew’s flee Germany  1939  Many Jews flee to other countries  Hitler encourages the Jews to leave  Countries begin to close their doors  US  Great Britain  France  Hitler will have to find another solution

Isolating the Jews  Hitler orders all Jews into Ghettos  Sealed off with brick, barb wire  Goal, to starve or die from disease  Jews continued to resist oppression…  Theater’s produced plays  Secret schools formed  Historians kept records Jew’s forced into Warsaw (Poland) Ghettos

THE PIANIST FILM NOTES  Take out a new sheet of paper…  Title it: THE PIANIST (Film notes)  Title the first section: GERMANY INVADES POLAND  Answer each question in exercise A & B

The Holocaust (Part II)

Hitler’s “Final Solution”  Calls for genocide  Holocaust:  Systematic slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by Nazi's ***Goal is to purify the human race  Other inferior races/nationalities JewsCriminals GypsiesInsane PolesDisabled RussianDiseased

THE PIANIST FILM NOTES  Take out your film notes…  Title: THE PIANIST (Film notes)  Title the third section: FROM THE GHETTO TO THE CAMPS  Title the fourth section: WLADEK’S ESCAPE  Answer each question in exercise A, B, & C

Killing Begins  As Nazi’s move through Euro toward Russia  Killing squads round up Jews  Separate men, women, kids, babies  Executed in pits that become mass graves  Other Jews are sent to:  Concentration Camps  Slave Labor Prisons  Most in Germany and Poland

Firing Squads  Jews were rounded up and either: - Executed by gun fire - Taken to Labor Camps - Taken to Death Camps

Labor Camps

THE PIANIST FILM NOTES  Take out your film notes…  Title: THE PIANIST (Film notes)  Title the fifth section: WLADEK IN HIDING  Answer each question in exercise A & B

1942 Final Stage  Extermination Camps  Death Camps  Separate strong and weak  Move to huge gas chambers  Equipped with cyanide gas  Killed 6,000 a day  Bodies moved to crematoriums (ovens)  Largest is Auschwitz  6 Million Jews killed

THE PIANIST FILM NOTES  Take out your film notes…  Title: THE PIANIST (Film notes)  Title the fifth section: THE LIBERATION OF POLAND  Answer each question in exercise A & B

Gas Chambers

Door from early gas chamber

Guarded Prisons

Nazi Guards and Staff

Liberating the Camps

Objectives 1. Explain the course of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. (Kristallnacht, ghettos, Final Solution.) Define each of these terms? 2. What were the results of the Final Solution?

CauseEffect Blitzkrieg Dunkirk Rescue Atlantic Charter