1. By Toni A and Hannah E

2. Aryanism The Master Race; Blonde hair, blue eyes. Untermensch Subhuman Adolf Hitler was obsessed with a pure race this was blonde haired, blue eyed and athletic Europeans. He considered them to be descendants from bloodlines between mortals and a Greek God. He believed that Jewish people had a world-wide conspiracy against the Aryan race and he believed they were an enemy that must be eliminated. It would be expected that this ideal race would include him as well, however, Hitler had neither blonde hair nor blue eyes, meaning this master race was something he was not a part of. People were not automatically a part of the Aryan race for just having blonde hair and blue eyes, though. Their past was looked into, and if three generations into their past proved to have non-Aryan qualities or heritage, they were not Aryan. The way he created this master race was through selective breeding. Men were recruited into the SS only if they had Aryan blood. The rules were strict on who they had to marry; only women of pure Aryan blood. This way, it was certain their children would be Aryan as well. Other races, especially Jews, were seen as inferior. Nazi ideas were that they should be removed as they were afraid that they would prevent the creation of the Aryan race. Further races were aimed to be used as slaves for the Aryan race as they were the most important. 3. The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was the first major law against Jewish people. It said that Jewish civil servants and employees were to be excluded from the state service. From 1933 onwards, German laws gradually restricted Jewish activity from the schools Jews attended to the jobs in which they had. In September of 1935, Nazi leaders announced new laws; the Nuremberg laws. They restricted Jews from Reich citizenship, and further activities. They were not allowed to marry German people as they would make any future childrens blood impure. Who was defined as a Jew? Not just people with particular religious beliefs. People were defined as a Jew if they had three or four Jewish ancestors in their past. Even if this person did not define themselves as a Jew, if their past said they were then they were. Anti-Jewish attacks moderated slightly during the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, but after that, the attacks amplified once again. In 1937 and 1938, Jewish workers and managers were dismissed from their jobs and Jewish businesses were bought and taken over by Germans who were not Jewish. Non-Jewish people had to be treated by non-Jewish doctors. Furthermore, Jewish people were required to carry identity cards, like other German people. On their identity cards, there was a red J on them. They were given new middle names Israel for a boy, Sara for a girl. Jews had to be identified easily. It took five years, but over this time period the Nazis gradually gained more support on their views of Jewish people. People began to believe that the Nazis were right, and held a large amount of hatred towards the Jews. 4. September 15th 1935 Nuremberg Laws are instituted. October 18th 1935 New marriage requirements are instituted. November 14th 1935 Nuremberg Laws are extended to other groups. 5. Kristallnacht Crystal Night a.k.a. The Night Of Broken Glass. On November 9th and 10th 1938, the Nazis finally started what they had been planning to do for five years. It took them five years as they needed to build up the support from others, and by this time, they had the support they needed. After a young Jewish kid killed a German diplomat in Paris, Hitler believe he had the perfect excuse to attack. On the night of the 9th and the morning of the 10th, members of the SS and the Hitler Youth brutally attacked and murdered Jewish people. They broke into their homes and wrecked them, whilst causing further havoc in their shops and businesses. Windows were smashed hence the broken glass part of the name and a large amount of vandalism took place. The main targeted areas for vandalism were synagogues all over Nazi controlled areas; sacred Torah scrolls were desecrated and multiple synagogues were set ablaze. Furthermore, around 25000 Jewish people were rounded up and transported to concentration camps and 91 Jews were killed. There were many people who shared Hitlers views on the Jewish people and also felt like they were to blame for everything that had happened in Germany. On the other hand, many people were outraged at what had happened, and this caused bad publicity in the media. 6. The Final Solution The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews 1941-45. Hitlers plan for a pure race involved the task of completely annihilating any race which he saw as subhuman. His way of doing this was called The Final Solution and it was his plan to get rid of certain races completely. He began this by collecting as many Jews and other people he thought to be subhuman gypsies, disabled, homosexuals etc. The Soviet Union was invaded by Germany, and here they collected as many Jews as they could. SS units searched from town to town to track down as many Jews as possible; some were killed on the spot, but others were captured and taken to the concentration camps which had been set up. In 1941, mass killing took place. The original techniques of mass murder were to shoot the people and dump their bodies in large pits. This killed very few people, was extremely costly and took up too much time for the Nazis. The first concentration camp was set up in Dachau, and since that, more and more concentration camps and death camps were set up all around. As more developed, the Nazis could send more and more people to work and eventually be killed. They were sent to these camps on crowded trains, and even then moved on to live in cramped conditions with very little food. A large amount of people died from starvation. 7. The Final Solution The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews 1941-45. After some time, gas chambers were introduced. Many people were cramped into one room, persuaded that they were just taking a shower. Instead, poisonous gas known as Zyclon B and cyanide gas was sent into the chambers, killing everybody in there as they breathed it in. To the Nazis, this was an effective way to eradicate the subhumans more quickly. More than 6000 people would die from gas poisoning per day. Further ways of murdering people were the Mobile Killing Units which were also known as the Einsatzgruppen. They originally killed just Jewish men, however, further into the year they killed Jewish men, women and children. The people they captured were lined up in front of a large pit and were all shot, eventually falling and filling up the pit. Alongside gas chambers, shooting was a common way of killing people. All dead bodies were collected by people often Jewish workers in the camp who were hoping to live an extra day and were burned in a large crematorium. This let out a disgusting smell into the air as hundreds of dead bodies burned. Other bodies were pushed by bulldozers into a large pit. 8. 7 million non-Jewish Soviet people killed. 6 million Jewish people killed. 2.8 million Soviet prisoners of war killed. 2.5 million non-Jewish Poles killed. 1.5 million non-Jewish Poles sent to forced labour concentration camps. 500,000 gypsies killed. 400,000 people were forcibly sterilised. 250,000 disabled people killed. 15,000 homosexuals sent to concentration camps. 10,000 Jehovahs Witnesses sent to concentration camps.