1. Anti-Semitism Background to the holocaust

2. Studying the holocaust
Not the only period that the Holocaust pertains to
Anti-semitism
Judenhaas
Conditions
Nationalism
Race and Racism
Social Darwinism
Eugenics

3. European Anti-Semitism
Judenhaas
Parallels with the growth of Christianity
Seen as “Christ-Killer”
Deserving punishment
Left out of society
Couldn’t own land in Feudal system
Money lenders/Sinful

4. European Anti-Semitism
Black Plague in the 14th century
Ukraine in 1921
Xenophobia
Nationalism

5. Race as a social concept
Joseph Arthur Gobineau
Superior/Inferior Peoples
Degeneration
Father of modern day racism
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Gradual process of superiority
Weed out weaker people

6. Darwinism Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Biological evolution
Natural selection

7. Social Darwinism Applied evolution to the development of cultures
Herbert Spencer
Physical, mental and cultural superiority
How did this contribute to the Holocaust?

8. Eugenics Sir Francis Galton 1880 Organized the movement
Dominated by German Doctors
Selective breeding

9. Vocabulary
Anti-Semitism
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews
Charles Darwin
Founder of Darwinism
Darwinism
The theory of the evolution of species by natural selection advanced by Charles Darwin
Eugenics
The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
Herbert Spencer
Founder of Social Darwinism
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Helped design the basis for the Third Reich

10. Vocabulary
Joseph Arthur Gobinear
Father of modern day racism
Judenhaas
Jew Hatred
Nationalism
Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts, an extreme form of this, especially marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries
Sir Francis Galton
Founder of Eugenics
Social Darwinism
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals
Xenophobia
Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries