1. Write down what you think this picture shows.
Thinking Point
Write down what you think this picture shows.

2. Treatment of Jews and Other ‘Undesirables’
Lesson starter:
‘’Nobody knows why Hitler hated the Jews so much.’’
Write down some of the reasons historians have given for Hitler’s hatred of Jews.

3. We are learning to… I can… Describe the Nazi Party’s views on race.
Identify the ways in which the Nazis discriminated against the Jewish population.
I can…
Create a timeline outlining the impact of Nazi policy on Jews.
Explain how life changed for persecuted groups using my knowledge in a N5 answer.

4. Hitler had used Mein Kampf to write down his ideas about the Jewish Race.
He believed there were superior races such as Aryans.
These were fair skinned people like Germans.
Jews and people from Balkan countries (ie Serbia) were far below Aryans in his ideas.
Untermensch = sub human
He also believed people were Jewish by blood, so they could not change this.

5. Hitler wanted to get rid of all the people he hated.
Hitler provided reasons for the groups he hated – but they were prejudiced views.
He built on existing anti-Semitism in Germany.
He blamed the Jews for bad times in Germany’s past.

6. Jews Hitler believed they were responsible for Germany losing WWI.
He said they created Communism.
That they were rich and ruthless.
That they made Germany weak and brought nothing to the country.

7. How did life change for German Jews?

8. Stage 1
Petty Harrassment

9. Mainly public discrimination
1 April 1933 – boycott of Jewish businesses
Burning of Jewish books
Many Jews made to leave their jobs and army
Anti-Jewish propaganda
Children’s games were anti-Jewish
Yellow park benches
Jews encouraged to leave Germany without their possessions
1934 – all Jewish businesses identified with ‘Juden’ on window

12. Stage 2
Nuremberg Laws

13. Nuremberg Laws 1935 Took away German citizenship from Jews
Marriage between Jews and Aryans illegal
Jewish businesses disbanded
Jewish doctors, lawyers not allowed to have Aryan clients
Jews had a J stamped on their passports
Aryan women under 45 not allowed to work for Jews

15. Stage 3
Kristallnacht

16. Kristallnacht The night of broken Glass
9-10 November 1938
The SS (Hitler’s Bodyguard) destroyed Jewish shops, businesses and synagogues across Germany
91 Jews killed
Around 20,000 sent to camps
400 synagogues burnt down
Over 7500 Jewish shops destroyed
Nazis blame it on Jewish community and fine them 1 billion marks

22. Video clips

23. Timeline of Jewish persecution
You are going to create a timeline on a new double page
Start at 1 April 1933
All the important events which persecuted the Jews can be found on pages of the textbook in chronological order
Try to add in how each change/ law altered the lives of Jewish people

24. Timeline of Persecution

25. 1933
1935
1938

26. Other Groups
Whilst many victims of Nazi persecution were Jewish, others were targeted.
Many scientists at this time believed that people with disabilities or social problems needed to be eliminated from the human bloodline.
They were also utterly racist and argued that some groups were ‘untermensch’.

27. Copy Group Reason for persecution Result Gypsies
Contributed nothing to society.
85% of German gypsies were killed.
Black people
Considered to be racially inferior.
Sterilisation and targets of Nuremberg laws.
Disabled people
Cost too much money and should not be allowed to reproduce.
Mentally disabled babies killed, mentally ill patients killed, sterilisation.
A-Socials (such as drug users)
Issues were considered to be hereditary.
Sterilised and sent to CC.
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Would not idolise Hitler.
Sent to CC.
Homosexuals
Would not reproduce.
Copy

28. Homework Task Due:
Explain why life became difficult for those targeted by the Nazis in Germany between 1933 and marks
Describe the events of Kristallnacht marks