1. 7 th Grade SS

2.  After WWI poverty and defeat caused citizens to want a stronger leader Hitler-Nazi Party  Aryan “Master” Race-superior to all others Hitler's vision for the world Tall, blonde, blue-eyed German Anti-Semitism-hatred of Jews

3.  Pogrom- government sanctioned riots against the Jews  Kristallnacht-Night of Broken Glass Riots against Jews November 9, 1938 Businesses ruined by organized gangs Many Jews taken to new concentration camps  Nuremberg Laws 1935-Laws restricting Jewish rights Jews could not marry non-Jews Jews could not have non-Jewish servants Jews denied membership to professional groups Jewish students removed from schools All property had to be registered Forced to carry ID with “J” for Jew

4. Separation of Aryans and “inferior” races  Gypsies, Blacks, Slavs, and Jews considered racially inferior Other enemies-Communists, trade unionists, and liberals  Jews had to wear yellow stars and armbands to show racial type

5. Ghetto- a small part of town separated by walls and gates to keep Jews apart from the rest of the Germans Conditions in the ghetto: Extreme poverty Overcrowding Very dirty Starvation Disease Humiliation

6.  Genocide-Large-scale, systematic destruction of all Jews  Started in Eastern/Central Europe  Massacres moved to Poland and Russia  Einsatzgruppen- special Nazi army units who led the massacres  Jews were sent to camps and worked to death  Women, children, elderly & sick killed in the countryside

7.  First camps built in Germany  Next built in Eastern Europe-out of the public eye  “Undesirables” sent to camps Jews Political prisoners Journalists Trade Unionists Gypsies Homosexuals Jehovah’s Witnesses & others  Concentration Camp conditions…

8.  Concentration camp conditions Prisoners numbered with tattoos on wrists Savage punishments Similar to ghetto Prisoners shot for slight offenses Prisoners used for medical experiments like lab animals

9.  What was Hitler’s “Master Race”?  What was Kristallnacht?  How did the Nuremberg Laws change the lives of Jews in Germany?  Which groups were racially inferior in Hitler’s eyes?  What was a ghetto?