The Holocaust Chapter 24 Section 3

Nuremberg Laws Laws to limit the rights of Jews Defined a Jew as someone w/ at least one Jewish grandparent Excluded Jews from German citizenship Forbid marriages b/w Jews and Germans Jews required to wear yellow “Stars of David” Jews required to carry ID cards saying they were Jewish

Kristallnacht November 9, 1938 (night of broken glass) 7,500 Jewish businesses were burned and destroyed Over 180 synagogues were burned and destroyed 90 Jews lay dead, hundreds were badly injured, and thousands were terrorized Approx. 30,000 Jewish males sent to concentration camps

Further Restrictions Jews were barred from… Public schools Public transportation Hospital Owning, managing, or working in any retail store Jews were urged to emigrate FROM Germany by the SS

The SS Heinrich Himmler – leader of the SS – a force for maintaining order SS 2 basic principles 1. terror (including domination, cruelty, & murder) 2. ideology (Nazi beliefs) SS chief goal – to further the Aryan master race Gestapo - Secret police of the govt. Under the overall administration of the SS

Hitler’s Secret Agenda Final Solution – Hitler’s plan to get rid of all the Jews Decided on January 20, 1942 at the Wannsee Conference The plan was to round up the Jews and take them to either a concentration camp or an extermination camp

The Camps Concentration camps Extermination camps Healthy people taken here to work as slave laborers until they dropped dead of exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition Extermination camps These camps were attached to many concentration camps Those unable to work were sent here to be executed in massive gas chambers Kids, elderly, handicapped, mentally ill, etc.

Hitler at a large political rally at the pinnacle of power The Dark Side of WW2 Hitler at a large political rally at the pinnacle of power

Hitler’s Youth (German Boy Scouts!)

Jews being “selected for death” upon reaching the concentration camp Jews being “selected for death” upon reaching the concentration camp. (see woman w/baby)

Prisoners fight for food in the camp

Children were not spared from starvation

Mass grave of prisoners

Mass grave

Crematorium

Crematorium