Agenda:  Quiz  Finish newscasts  Propaganda  Poisonous Mushroom Homework:. Next set of IDs due Tues. 12/11

The Nazis began a racist policy of creating a master race of Aryans The first step was the Nuremberg Laws that took citizenship away from Jews and said Jews could not marry non-Jews The Night of Broken Glass, or Kristalnacht on November 9, 1938 was an organized and violent attack on the Jewish community- after that, some Jews left Germany, but some countries began to close their doors to Jewish immigrants Hitler then began to move Jews into isolated neighborhoods called ghettos Finally, Hitler began his “Final Solution” in which he would carry out a genocide of Jews and others Jews and others were rounded up, put on trains and brought to horrible concentration/death camps At the camps, prisoners were sorted, starved, worked to death, executed Gas chambers at some camps could kill 6,000 people a day 6 million Jews and about 6 million others were killed in the Holocaust- the “others” include the mentally ill, physically ill, elderly, Polish Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gypsies, homosexuals and more

Just take a look at these images…Jews were depicted as monsters, thieves, etc all over Germany including…

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 Author: Julius Streicher  It was his life’s mission to “unmask the Jews.”  Became a prominent leader in Nazi propaganda  “It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.”  Published The Poisonous Mushroom  Executed at the Nuremberg Trials

Directions: Answer these questions as you read each short story. 1. How is a Jew described in the story? Use specific evidence from the story. 2. What is the Jew being blamed of in the story? Again, use specific evidence from the story.