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** toc 1. Hitler Makes War on the Jews, the Holocaust Begins; Racist Beliefs and Anti-Semitism **
Anti-Semitism, or the hatred of Jews, spurred the Holocaust. According to Hitler and the Nazis’ ideology, the Aryan was blonde hair and blued eyed; this racism stretched already overblown stereotypes against the Jews. The Nazis considered the German race the “master race” and believed that every other race was inferior. Their racism led to the systematic persecution and eventual mass slaughter of Jews and other “inferior” groups, such as the gypsies, homosexuals, and disabled, and is infamously known as the Holocaust. Many Europeans targeted the Jews as the cause of their failures, and some Germans even went as far as to blame the Jews for their humiliating defeat in World War I and all the economic struggles caused from reparations of that war. The Nazis used this long-held racism and bitterness toward the Jews and made targeting the Jews a government policy, called the Nuremberg Laws. When passed in 1935, it stripped the Jews of their rights to German citizenship and made it forbidden for Jews and non-Jews to wed. Later on, laws were passed that limited the type of employment that Jews could have, but there was much worse to come. On November 7, 1938,  Herschel Grynszpan shot a German diplomat to avenge the deportation of his father from Germany, where his father had lived for 27 years. The Nazi leaders heard about the shooting and jumped on their opportunity to crush the Jewish community. Two days after the shooting, the Nazi storm troopers made an attack on Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses and killed approximately 100 Jews. This event is known as Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass” and was just a foreshadowing of the German’s brutality on the Jews in the Holocaust. [|Video on Adolf Hitler]
 * According to Hitler and the Nazis, what was the Aryan ideology?
 * What was the Holocaust?
 * What were the long-held feelings of many Europeans against Jews?
 * What did the 1935 Nuremberg Laws do?
 * What happened on November 9, 1938? Explain the event. [[image:webkit-fake-url://070E5B09-AD50-4680-B535-18786C2450A8/adolf-hitler.jpg width="147" height="207" align="right" caption="adolf-hitler.jpg"]]

**2. A Flood of Refugees and Isolating the Jews**

 * Fearing more violence, to where did many German Jews flee?
 * Hitler favored emigration, but why did other countries limit Jewish refugees?
 * What were the designated cities where Hitler moved the Jews? What was the name of these sections in the city?
 * What were the conditions like where the Jews were moved?

Although some Jews stayed in Germany to avoid the heavy emigration tax, more than 340,000 Jews flooded neighboring countries like France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Austria. In 1938, an overwhelming amount of frightened, impoverished German Jews continually gushed out of Germany because the Nazi Policy clearly aimed to rid Germany of all of its Jews.

The German government favored emigration which meant the Jews relocated to different countries. Hitler and the Nazis favored this because they were trying get rid of the Jews and demolish the Jewish population anyways, so when thousands of Jews fled Germany, they encouraged them to leave. But during this time, many countries throughout Europe and America were experiencing severe economic depressions because of the Stock Market crash which caused the Great Depression. Many countries were suffering from food shortages and having little money. As a result, numerous countries put up barriers against immigration or greatly reduced the number of immigrants coming in beause they didn’t want and couldn’t afford tens of thousands of homeless Jews during that time. 

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In October 1939, the German Government established the first ghetto in Poland. Since the ghettos only lasted a few months, German officials would shoot the Jews in mass graves or deported them, where they would eventually be killed. The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw Ghetto, where over 400,000 thousand Jews were stuffed into an area that covered about 1.3 square miles. Other major ghettos were built in the cities of [|Lodz], [|Krakow] , [|Bialystok] , [|Lvov] , [|Lublin] , [|Vilna] , and [|Kovno] .These segregated areas were overcrowded, and sealed off with stone walls and barbed wire. The Germans officials ordered Jews residing in the ghettos to wear identifying badges and also required them to perform daily labor tasks for them. German councils and police would be monitoring the Jews and if anyone disobeyed them, they would be beaten or killed. In addition, many Jews were infected with diseases from living in dirty, filthy conditions or eventaully starved to death.

====<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**3.Hitler Seeks a New Answer and The Killings Begin** ====
 * <span style="color: #170080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Explain Hitler's Final Solution.
 * <span style="color: #170080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">What is the purpose of the genocide?
 * <span style="color: #170080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">How was genocide carried out through Eastern Europe?
 * <span style="color: #170080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">What was the purpose of separating the strong and the weak Jews?
 * <span style="color: #170080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">How were Jews used in Nazi war effort? Also give names of two labor camps.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px;">Adolph Hitler was the ruler of Germany at the time of the Holocaust. His final solution was to protect the purity of his race by killing all that were impure. In this case, he believed the Jews were doing just that. In the summer of 1941 Hitler’s plan to kill all remaining Jews had begun. Another word for what Hitler had done is genocide. The purpose of genocide was to kill all the able bodied men so a new generation of Jews could not be started. He removed all the males from villages leaving them defenseless. German police made Jews give up all valuables that were essential for war effort. Things such as cameras, radios, bicycles and other appliances were taken. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The killing of Jews started when Nazis went across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Hitler’s men moved from town to town to hunt down Jews. They were either killed or sent to camps. If you were chosen to go to a camp, you were separated into two groups, strong and weak. The weak were de-clothed and sent to the gas chambers to die a slow death. The strong were sent to do work. You were considered weak if you were sick or old. Two of the biggest camps were Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

**4. The Final Stage**

 * Give an example of a death camp and why there was urgency in implementing this policy.
 * How many European Jews were killed during the Holocaust?
 * How many Jews survived the Holocaust?
 * To where did surviving Jews emigrate?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 26px;">The holocaust was a huge tragedy; most of the Jewish population did not make it through. About 4 million European Jews survived and about 6 million died. Some Jews got help from non-Jews escaping the camps, when they escaped they would stay in non-Jews homes or spread all around to many different countries. People who kept them in there house were risking there lives too. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 26px;">The death camps were surrounded by barb wire, Auschwitz was the worst death camp, most people did not survive. THe Naszis tried to kill as many Jews as poosible, as fasy as possible. The urgency in implementing this policy was, because the allies were coming and they needed to hide all evidence so people would believe it never happened. There are still survivors from the Holocaust that live today, Elie Wisel is one. Wisel wrote the book, __Night__, based on his experience in the Holocaust.

This is the entrance of Aushwitz, ,most people would arrive by train.

This is an example of a gas chamber

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