1. The Holocaust Chapter 24 Section 3

2. I Persecution Begins Holocaust= the systematic murder of 11 mil. Ppl across Europe

3. A. Why the Jews Anti-Semitism= hatred of Jews – Deep roots in German history – Scapegoats= someone to blame for their failures and misfortunes Hitler blamed WWI loss and troubled after on the Jews Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their civil rights & Property

4. Jews over age of 6 wore yellow star of David o their clothes for identification Kristallnacht (Crystal night/night of broken glass)= gangs of Nazi storm troopers attack Jewish homes, businesses, & Synagogues – Nazi’s later blame Jews for the destruction

5. B. The Plight of Jewish Refugees Thousands of Jews fled Germ. But after Kristallnacht, Nazi’s speed up immigration – Other countries already had thousands of refugees and refuse to accept more – GB feared growth of Anti-Semitism

6. Many distinguished ppl fled to the US (Albert Einstein – US could have accepted more but… 1.Didn’t relax immigration quotas 2.Anti-Semitism in the US 3.Fear of job competition during GD 4.Feared “enemy agents” would infiltrate US

7. II the Final Solution Germany unable to rid itself of Jewish pop. Sot hey adopt a new approach – “Final solution” was to send healthy Jews to labor camps to preform slave labor while sending the rest to extermination camps Genocide= deliberate killing of an entire ppl

8. A. The Condemned The “final solution” based on belief that the master Aryan race must be preserved – Pol. Opp. & those not fit to be part of master race Mentally ill, homosexuals, Gypsies As they moved east they added other Europeans

9. B. Concentration camps Nazi’s implemented “final solution” in Poland by assigning death squad to round up Jews – Some sent to concentration camp  worked to death – Those too weak were killed

10. C. Extermination Late in 1941 Germans build death camps w/ gas chambers where thousands could be killed – Auschwitz= largest death camp Told to strip for shower then led to gas chambers

11. Corpses places in ditches but the began to smell and left evidence of denocide  built large crematoriums Others died from horrible medical experiments – Experiments were meant to improve the master race

12. D. The Survivors About 6 mil. Jews died but some were able to escape – Ppl risked death by helping Jews escape or hiding them in their homes Those who escaped were changed forever – Elie Wiesel Quote from NIGHT in text