8.10.5 Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the

Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

Cause and Consequences of the Holocaust

People are radically unequal.Aryans were the “Master Race”Other races threatened the “purity” of their

race

Nazi Ideology What did they believe?

“living space”Room to growInvading Europe and eliminating other ethnicities.

Lebensraum

Explain how his ideology is a cause of ethnic persecution and eventually the Holocaust.

Question?

Soon after Hitler took power in 1933, Jewish persecution began. Under Hitler, Jews were….

Persecution of the Jews

1935“At their annual party rally, the Nazis announce new

laws that revoke Reich citizenship for Jews and prohibit Jews from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." "Racial infamy," as this becomes known, is made a criminal offense. The Nuremberg Laws define a "Jew" as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents. Consequently, the Nazis classify as Jews thousands of people who had converted from Judaism to another religion, among them even Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers whose grandparents were Jewish.”

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007695.

Nuremberg Laws

Nuremberg Laws

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nazis-launch-kristallnacht.

Kristallnacht

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOom3eCYX1o.

deprived of property and forced into ghettoscrowded, isolated areas where many died of

starvation and disease

Ghettos

One policy from the Nuremberg Laws states that Jewish people can not marry outside their ethnicity, what do you think happened to couples that were married outside their ethnicity?

Question?

After World War II broke outIn 1939, Jewish persecution spreadIn Eastern Europe, the Nazis began to send

out killing squads. They also built brutal slave labor camps.

Final Solution

Around 1942, the persecution became a genocide

(an effort to kill an entire group of people.) The Nazis built death camps that served as

centers for the mass murder of Jews. Most of the killing took place at six camps in

Poland.

Genocide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1G422YwCMg.

Hitler called this his “final solution” to the Jewish question.

The persecution and mass murder of European Jews during World War II became known as the Holocaust

The word holocaust means total destruction. The Nazis killed six million Jews and five

million non-Jews, including many Polish, Romani (Gypsies), and Russians.

More than one half of European Jews perished in the Holocaust.

Holocaust: The consequence of the Final Solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS98MAN3Xtg.

Never Forget

“Just as Nature concentrates its greatest attention, not to the maintenance of what already exists but on the selective breeding of offspring in order to carry on the species, so in human life also it is less a matter of artificially improving the existing generation – which, owing to human characteristics, is impossible in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred – and more a matter of securing from the very start a better road for future development." -- Adolf Hitler

Analyze this quote using cause and consequents.

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