1. Prompt #3
List at least 3 things you already know about the Holocaust? (causes, key people, places, etc.)

2. The Holocaust Beginnings
Historic Anti-Semitic Myths
Myth 1. Christ Killers
Myth 2. Blood Libel—Jews use blood of Christian children for their ceremonies/holidays
Myth 3. Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Myth 4. Blamed for Plague–accused of poisoning wells
Myth 5. Profited from WWI and didn’t fight for Germany
Myth 6. Accused of being greedy money lenders/bankers

3. Anti-Semitism Continues
Propaganda
Radio in every house, speakers in streets – Joseph Goebbels
Hitler Youth camps

4. Rise of Anti-Semitism Nuremberg Laws – legal hatred
Stripped of German citizenship
No intermarriages
Jews could not employ Germans
No Jewish doctors, lawyers, civil servants
Wear Star of David

5. Kristallnacht Jewish man kills minor German official in Paris
“Spontaneous” demonstrations against Jews all over Germany & Austria
Jews forced to clean and pay for damage

7. Ghettos

8. More Anti-Semitism
St. Louis – over 600 of the 900 passengers eventually perished
Discriminatory immigration laws in U.S.

9. Problems w/ Executions
SS would follow army and shoot Jews
Psychological damage
Too slow, too public, mass graves

10. Wannsee Conference Decided on the “Final Solution” - Extermination
Hitler (not present) – was assumed that he gave the order

11. Jewish population before, Jewish population after Holocaust
Statistics
Jewish population before, Jewish population after Holocaust

12. Other groups affected
6 million Jews died (2/3rd of Europe’s Jewish population)
5-6 million other people also died
Non-Jewish Poles – many Catholics, Slavic civilians, Soviet POWs, political dissidents, handicapped, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies

13. Notes cont.
The Holocaust

14. FDR and US Response
War Refugee Board created to help those being persecuted by Nazis

15. Creation of Jewish Homeland
UN and US help settle land dispute in Palestine
Jews start moving in from Europe and violence erupts
Negotiate and create the Jewish state of Israel in 1947

16. Nuremberg Trials
Beginning in October 1945, 22 major war criminals were tried on charges relating to horrors of war and Holocaust
Judges & prosecutors were from Allied Powers
12 of the 22 were sentenced to death