Hitler’s Third Reich

Rise to Power

So why do they cheer for Hitler? 1. STANDARD OF LIVING ROSE 2. REARMED AND REBUILT GERMANY - VIOLATION OF TREATY OF VERSAILLES 3. UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS SIGNIFICANTLY 4.GESTAPO, OR NAZI SECRET POLICE SCARED PEOPLE INTO OBEDIENCE 5. RESTORED PRIDE AND NATIONALISM

Jews in Nazi Germany April 1934 Jews loose health insurance Feb/March 1933 Reichstag burned down – communists are blamed. Dachau CC is opened to hold political prisoners Boycott April 1933 Government sponsored boycott of Jewish shops & business --Jews are forced out of jobs in law, civil service, farming October 1933 Germany leaves the League of Nations Jews in Nazi Germany Sept 1935 Nuremburg laws -Jews lose German citizenship -Jews banned from public business life -Non-Aryans defined as anyone having one Jewish grandparent April 1934 Jews loose health insurance Newspapers print anti-Semitic ideas May 1935 Defense law: All who serve in the military must prove Aryan heritage; Jews banned

Kristallnacht August 1936 1937 July 1938 Evian Conference Berlin Olympics Discrimination decreases anti-Semitic posters are removed; no German Jews are allowed to participate in games; world teams consider boycotting but attend anyway. 1937 Jan -Jews forced to sell their businesses July - Degenerate Art by Jewish artists is exhibited Nov - Munich exhibition of “The Wandering Jew” depicting the Jew as financial exploiter. July 1938 Evian Conference A world meeting to deal with the Jewish refugee crisis. No nations offer to admit more than their existing quotas allow. Exception: Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass” November 9 & 10, 1938 --‐ A night of extreme violence against Jews. --‐ 100 Jews murdered --‐ 20,000 Jews sent to C camps --‐ Synagogues & Jewish homes burned down, windows of shops smashed. Jews forced to pay a fine for the damage. -Jews banned from German schools/cinemas/public areas -Jews forced to close & sell their businesses -Jewish Passports in Germany & Austria have to be stamped with a Red J

Concentration Work Camps Forced Labor Jews must work without pay for industries in factories or for the German state. Concentration Camps Used as a holding center for laborers & often forced labor is done on site related to the war effort. 1939 Jews forced to wear yellow star of David in Germany & all occupied areas October 1939 Ghettos Jews are forced to live in designated areas of cities; limited space & resources; poor sanitation; Nazis plan “clean” deaths through starvation Jews in Nazi Germany 1943-45 Final Solution Planned destruction of all the Jews in Europe through extermination in gas chambers at Death Camps with Zyklon B. Death Marches- Prisoners forced to walk miles to avoid the advances of allied forces. Holocaust = murder of 6 million Jews (2/3 of their pre-war pop) 1939-1943 Concentration Work Camps - Hold Jews, Communists, Poles, Roma, Homosexuals & Jehovah Witnesses under the most depraved conditions. --- Given fewer than 500 calories per day & forced to work death is a constant reality. 1941-1943 Einsatzgruppen “Mobile Killing Squads” Followed the German army East Rounded up and exterminated all “undesirables” Jews Executions took place in the woods & buried in unmarked mass graves

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