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The Holocaust
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Anti-Semitism Hostility towards or prejudice against Jews or Judaism
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Anti-Semitism in Germany From the time he was a boy, Hitler blamed Jews for German losses after WWI and the economic depression that spread thereafter
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“The Jewish Question” NAZIS, led by Hitler, believed that something needed to be done to remove Jews from German lands
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Boycott of Jewish Stores
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“Retirement” Government dismissed all workers NOT of Aryan descent Jewish teachers, lawyers, and performers were not allowed to work Jewish admissions to universities cancelled
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Dachau The first concentration camp was opened in Germany in 1933
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Book Burnings
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Nuremburg Laws Section 1 Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood are forbidden. Section 2 extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and subjects of the state of Germany or related blood is forbidden Section 3 Jews will not be permitted to employ female citizens under the age of 45, of German or kindred blood, as domestic workers. Section 4 Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the national colours On the other hand they are permitted to display the Jewish colours.
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Krystallnacht – Nov 9 th, 1938 “Night of Broken Glass” Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German towns and cities
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The Warsaw Ghetto - 1940
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The “Judenrat”
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By 1939, six large concentration camps existed in Poland
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By 1941, they started operating as “death camps”
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1942 – “Wannsee Conference” “The Final Solution”
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Einsatzgruppen
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Adolf Eichmann Special force of the SS created to deal with the “undesirables” of occupied countries Eichmann headed a special section that dealt strictly with Jews
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Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto
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1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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T-4 Euthanasia Program
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Zyklon-B Gas Chambers Auschwitz
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Trains transported Jews to camps
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Identifying the prisoners Green = professional criminal Pink = homosexual Brown = gypsy Violet = Jehovah’s Witness Black = “a-social” (alcoholic or prostitute)
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Identifying the prisoners Jews were given 2 black and yellow triangles Together they formed the 6-pointed Star of David
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NAZI leaders Adolf Hitler
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NAZI leaders Joseph Goebbels
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NAZI leaders Hermann Goring
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NAZI leaders Heinrich Himmler
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NAZI leaders Rudolf Hoss
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NAZI leaders Joseph Mengele
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Liberation - 1945
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Nuremburg Trials – 1945 - 49
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Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice
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Nicoletta Braschi as Dora
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Giorgio Cantarini as Joshua
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