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German journalist Wilhelm Marr originated the term antisemitism.
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The Boycott of Jewish Businesses
1933 500k jews lived in Germany that's less than one percent of the population many Jews served in world war 1 and were decorated for there bravery intill the Natzi's came and started the boycott -
Nazi Racism
The Nazi ideology of the "Perfect Person", or Aryan, is formed. German physicians were now legally allowed to inject thier patients with sterilizations that prevented them from having children. This included people with mental or physical handicaps, Gypsies, the Blind/Deaf, or anyone who wasn't pure Aryan. -
Jewish Life in Europe Before the Holocaust
A total of nine million Jews lived in the countries that occupied Germany during world war 2. They spoke their own language. Jews could be found in all walks of life. Some were wealthy; many more were wealthy. -
Forced Labor
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Nazi propaganda and censorship
Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media. Nazis raided libraries and bookstores across Germany. whose ideas the Nazis viewed as different from their own and therefore not to be read.The Nazi censors also burned the books Helen Keller, who had overcome her deafness and blindness to become a respected writer Goebbels condemns works written by Jews, liberals, leftists, pacifists, foreigner -
"Enemies of the State"
Although Jews were the main target of their persecution others who faced discrimination, known as "enemies of the state". Those who received discrimination were gypsies,Jehovah Witnesses, and homosexuals. -
The Nuremberg Race Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were two distinct laws passed by the Nazi Germany in September 1935, the laws focused on the racial theories that surrounded Nazi ideology. The reichstag or Germany's parliament, which was made up of Nazi representatives had passed the laws after Hitler announced it on the 15th. Antisemitism was important to the Nazi Party, so Hitler had called parliament for a session during the annual Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany hence the name of the laws. -
Kristallnacht
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The Evian Conference
Between July 6-15, 32 countries met in France to find a long-term solution. Most countries did not want refugees because of the economic toll. The conference resulted in the ICR (Intergovernmental committee on refuges). -
Locating the Victims
In 1939, the German government conducted a census of all persons living in Germany. Census takers recorded each person's age, sex, residence, profession, religion, and marital status, and for the first time, they also listed the person's race as traced through his or her grandparents. . Jews who served at the front in World War I or whose immediate family members had fallen in the conflict are exempted until 1935, when they too are removed. -
Auschwitz
It was the largest concentration camp of its kind it included 3 main camps inside of it one of them functioned as a killing center -
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At the Killing Center
Killing Centers were often refereed to extermination camps. It's job was to kill the new arrivals as soon as possible. They operated as 'death factories' ans were held in a small area. -
Voyage of saint louis
On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba. On the voyage were 937 passengers. Almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich. Most were German citizens, some were from eastern Europe, and a few were officially "stateless." paragraph 1 "Voyage Of ST. Louis -
World War II in Europe
On September 1st 1939 Germany invaded Poland. Germany started forcing jews into concentration camp and established ghettos to keep them. -
The Nazi Terror Begins
In,1940 German officials took the property of the Jewish. They established the ghettos and forced-labor camps. -
Life in the Ghettos
Nazi's created ghettos to separate jews from the rest of the population. Jews in the ghettos often died from disease or starvation if not they were sent to gas chambers -
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German Rule In Occupied Europe
Refers to sovereign countries of Europe which were occupied by the military forces of germany at various times . -
Ghettos in Poland
Between October and December in 1941, thousands of Jews were transported to Ghettos, one of the main being Warsaw. This ghetto was formed after Germany took over Poland, -
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Jewish Partisans
The Jewish Partisans purpose was revenge and rescue. Such as: attacking and harassing German troups and cutting railway lines. Also, establishing links throughout Europe and to set up underground networks to rescue Jews. -
The Wannsee Conference and the " Final Solution "
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officals of Nazi Germany . The purpose was to ensure the cooperation of admiditrative leaders of various government departments in the implemention of the so called Final Solution to the Jewish question . The Final Solution , the Nazi plan to exterminate the jewish people . -
Killing Center Revolts
It was a ghetto uprising inspired revolts in other ghettos including the killing center -
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants.
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Rescue In Denmark
The rescue allowed the majority of denmarks's jews . to be avioded getting captured , they are considered to be one of the largest actions of collective resistence to aggresion . As a result , over 99% of denmark's jewish population survived the holocaust . -
Few ghettos remained in eastern Europe.At the same time that ghettos were being emptied, masses of Jews and also Roma (Gypsies) were transported from the many distant countries occupied or controlled by Germany, including France, Belgium
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Assassination attempt
Military officers plotted a serious assassination attempt and carried it out in 1944. Hitler barely escaped the bomb with minor injuries. The officers who planned this were shot right away, 200 others were found to be involved and were executed. -
the war refugee board
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Liberation
The Soviet Army was the first to liberate a concentration camp. Soldiers marched into Majdanek in Poland. German soldiers were forced to retreat and leave behind thier prisoners, making the liberation an easier task than expected. -
The Survivors
Once the war ended most of the jews stayed in DP camps that were distributed by Allied powers. Almost 700,000 jews emigrated int Israel DP camps discontinued in 1957 -
death marches
authorities did not want prisoners to fall into enemy hands alive to tell their stories to Allied and Soviet liberators the SS thought they needed prisoners to maintain production of armaments wherever possible some SS leaders, including Himmler, believed irrationally that they could use Jewish concentration camp prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that would guarantee the survival of the Nazi regime.
