1. By Jessica,Sunny,Rachel
The Holocaust 16-3
By Jessica,Sunny,Rachel

2. Anti-Semitism
Nazis claim Aryan (German) race was superior, and everyone else was inferior
Jews
Nazis blamed their failures on them, Scapegoat They blamed the defeat in WW1 and their poor economy on the Jews.
Nazis passed laws to persecute Jews by:
Passing laws to forbid Jews from holding public office
Depriving Jews from German citizenship, jobs, property (Nuremburg Laws)
Made them wear a yellow star attached to their clothing

5. Kristallnacht: “Night of Broken Glass”
17 y/o Herschel Grynszpan, Jewish youth from Germany shoots an employee of the German Embassy in Paris
Nov. 9th Nazis attack the Jewish community
Homes
Businesses
synagogues

6. American in Leipzig wrote, “Jewish shop windows by the hundreds were systematically smashed….The main streets of the city were a positive litter of shattered plate glass”

7. Total Statistics 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps;
1,668 synagogues ransacked, 267 burned
From Wikipedia.org “Kristallnacht”