1. Treatment of the Jews Lesson starter:
This poster was used in classrooms across Germany to educate children after 1933.
Write down what you think it shows.

2. Today we will… Describe the Nazi Party’s views on race
Identify the ways in which the Nazis discriminated against the Jewish population

3. I can… Create a timeline outlining the impact of Nazi policy on Jews
Explain the treatment of Jews using my knowledge in a N5 answer

4. Write down what you think this picture shows.
Starter task
Write down what you think this picture shows.

5. 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

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

7. The 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

8. Other groups Jehovah’s witnesses – would not idolise Hitler
Gypsies – contributed nothing to society
‘asocials’ (such as drug users) – problems were hereditary
Homosexuals – would not repopulate Germany
Disabled people – should not reproduce and cost Germany too much money

9. How did life change for German Jews?

10. Stage 1
Petty Harrassment

11. 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

14. Stage 2
Nuremberg Laws

15. 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

17. Stage 3
Kristallnacht

18. 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

24. Video clips

25. 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

26. Treatment of the Jews – two types of N5 question
Describe the life for Jews in Germany marks
Jewish people had their shops and businesses confiscated by the Nazis in 1935.
2. Explain why life became difficult for Jews in Germany between 1933 and marks
Life became difficult for Jews in Germany because they lost their German citizenship therefore they lost their rights as citizens such as the right to vote and became subjects instead.

27. N5 Question Practice
Describe the life for Jews in Germany marks
Explain why life became difficult for Jews in Germany between 1933 and marks