1. The Holocaust History: Prejudice, Bigotry and Persecution
Nuremburg Laws
Kristallnacht
Ghettoes and Deportation
Death Squads
Camps
The Final Solution

2. History: Prejudice, Bigotry and Persecution
Crusades against Jews
The Spanish Inquisition
Expulsion from England (1290), France (1306), and Spain (1492)
“Jewish” Professions
Dreyfus Affair
Russian Pogroms
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Roma
Anti-Homosexual

3. "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then they came for me And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

4. Nuremburg Laws Started in 1933 “Jewish Business” signs and boycott
Revoked citizenship of non-German blood
“Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor” forbade marriage or intimacy between Jews and Germans
Jewish students expelled
Jews fired from law, medicine, civil service
Book burnings
Jews only allowed to use “Jewish” names (ie. Israel and Sara)
Yellow Star
“J” in passport
“Aryanization” of property

5. Kristallnacht The Night of Broken Glass
“Response” to assassination in France
November 9-10, 1938
7,000 businesses and 195 synagogues destroyed
100 Jews killed; thousands beaten, tortured
30,000 arrested and taken to concentration camps

6. Ghettoes and Deportation
Polish Jews robbed and deported to Poland (act that caused assassination in Paris)
After war starts, Jews in Germany, Poland and elsewhere rounded up and sent to Ghettoes in Poland
Starvation, disease, abuse kill many (250,000 killed in four months)
1943 Warsaw Ghetto and others emptied, one month of fighting

7. Death Squads
After invasion of Russia, groups of SS and others followed advancing German troops and killed anyone (mostly Jews and Slavs) they didn’t like.
Usually, the death squads would enter a village, round up everyone, march them outside of town, have them dig a trench, take off their clothes, and then shoot them so they fell into the trench. Then they would be covered over.
We don’t know how many people were killed this way.

8. Camps Camps were generally of two types: work to death, and Death
The first people sent to camps were political prisoners, then “degenerates” and other undesirables, then Jews
Death camps didn’t make a major impact until That’s when the gas chambers and ovens were built.

9. The Final Solution Began in 1942
So called because it wanted to rid society of Jews through murder
It’s goal was the death of every Jew in Europe
To Hitler, the killing of Jews took precedence over fighting the war.
In all, ~6,000,000 Jews and ~6,000,000 others murdered