USH2 Unit 5: America and the World Lesson 5.3 part 3 “The Holocaust”

Frayer Model: Anti Semitism

Essential Question  What events led to the Holocaust in Germany? What are the consequences?

THE NEW ORDER AND THE HOLOCAUST

THE LONGEST HATRED Stage 1 (2000BC – 33 AD)  HATRED BEGINS DURING THE TIME OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE  MONOTHEISM VS. POLYTHEISM  DIASPORA = ROMAN COLISEUM

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STAGE TWO = AGE OF CHRISTIANITY AD  INCREASES WITH CONFLICT BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS OVER CRUCIFICTION  SAINT AUGUSTINES “FINAL PERFECTION” AND THE CRUSADES (EMICHO)

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Stage 3 = Middle Ages  JEWS WERE DEMONIZED DURING THE MIDDLE AGES AND BLAMED FOR THE BEUBONIC PLAGUE, HAD NO PLACE IN SOCIETY  MONEY LENDERS, BANKERS

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STAGE 4 = MODERN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT  ENLIGHTENMENT = DUAL LEGACY  HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE  BIRTH OF RACISM  ROUSSEAU = INEQUALITIES MADE BY MAN  GOBINOU = INEQUALITIES MADE BY NATURE (darwinism)  QUESTION OF RACE  SPANISH INQUISITION  RUSSIAN POGROMS  FRENCH DREYFUS AFFAIR  GERMANY SEEN AS “SAFE HARBOR” BY 1900

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WHY GERMANY?  ANGER OVER WWI AND THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES  THE GREAT DEPRESSION = EXTREMISM  HISTORY OF ANTI- SEMITISM IN EUROPE  ADOLF HITLER = BIGGEST LIE….SCAPEGOATING

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THE NEW ORDER IN EUROPE NUREMBURG LAWS IN EFFECT IN GERMANY (1935) = FIRST SOLUTION Nov. 9, 1938 = KRISTALLNACHT (NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS) GERMANS OPENLY TARGETED THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY 1942, GERMANY CONTROLS ALL OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE THEY ARE CONVINCED THEY ARE GOING TO WIN THE WAR = CREATE A NEW WORLD ORDER CONQUERED LANDS WERE SEEN AS LIVING SPACE FOR GERMAN EXPANSION GHETTOS USED AFTER FORCED EMIGRATION TO DEAL WITH THE JEWS (SECOND SOLUTION) EINSATZGRUPPEN WERE GIVEN JOB OF ACTING AS MOBILE KILLING UNITS (THIRD SOLUTION)

SHOAH = HEBREW TERM FOR “CATASTROPHE…HOLOCAUST

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THE DEATH CAMPS  EINSATZGRUPPEN KILLED ONE MILLION JEWS, BUT WAS TO SLOW BY NAZI STANDARDS = AND MORALE LOW  WANSEE CONFERENCE = FINAL SOLUTION TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM  SIX EXTERMINATION CAMPS BUILT IN POLAND, LARGEST WAS AUSCHWITZ  EXTERMINATION CAMPS DIVIDED INTO LABOR CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS  SOME INMATES WERE SUBJECT TO CRUEL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS  EVEN LATE IN THE WAR, THE FINAL SOLUTION HAD PRIORITY IN USING RAILWAY CARS TO SHIP JEWS TO DEATH CAMPS

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THE DEATH TOLL  GERMANY KILLED 6 MILLION JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST  THE NAZI’S WERE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF ANOTHER 5 MILLION CIVILIANS  1.2 MILLION JEWISH CHILDREN DIED DURING THE HOLOCAUST  MOTHERS AND CHILDREN OFTEN FIRST TO BE KILLED

How far have we come?  Muslim Student leader from UC SD openly admitting that she supports the idea that Jews should be hunted down  

Primary Source Document  Mein Kampf  Writing Assignment. Create a rebuttal to Hitlers blatant racism.

 Clip from Band of Brothers “Why We Fight”

Learning Log  WHAT IS THE BEST DEFINITION FOR SHOAH?  WHAT IS THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF KRISTALLNACHT?  WHAT WAS HITLERS FIRST SOLUTION TO THE “JEWISH PROBLEM”?  WHAT WAS HITLERS SECOND SOLUTION TO THE “JEWISH PROBLEM”?  WHAT WAS HITLERS THIRD SOLUTION TO THE “JEWISH PROBLEM”?  WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE WANSEE CONFERENCE?  WHAT WAS HITLERS “FINAL SOLUTION” TO THE “JEWISH PROBLEM”?

OVER THE EDGE