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Reasons For The Word Antisemitism
German journalist Wilhelm Marr created the term antisemitism which means the hatred of Jews. It was created to describe certain hatred towards Jewish People. The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. Many Nazis approved this hate filled word. -
Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was appointed chancellor by Paul von Hindenburg. He immediately began laying the foundations of the Nazi state. Guided by racist and authoritarian principles, the Nazis eliminated individual freedoms that were originally promised by the Volk Community (Volksgemeinschaft), a society which in theory would transcend religious and class differences. -
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Pogroms
A Progrom is a Russian word that means to wreak havoc or demolish violently. Nazis planned for violent riots launched against Jewish People everywhere. Pogroms were often incited by blood libels, false rumors that Jews used the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes. -
Camps Established
The first Concentration camps were started up after Hitler was appionted as chacellor. The camps started out in Germany and slowly spread. -
The Reichstag Fire Decree
The Reichstag Fire Decree permitted the suspension of basic civil rights that were guaranteed by the Weimar Constitution. The Third Reich became police state that made it to were no Germans had basic rights. The SS assumed control of the German police, and brutaly enforced this law. -
Enabling Act
With this act, the German Parliament transferred legislative power to Hitler's cabinet, losing its reason for being. By mid-July, the Nazi Party was the only political party left in Germany. All other parties were either outlawed by the German government or had self-dissolved under pressure. -
Civil Service Law
With this law, the Nazis began eliminated Jews from governmental agencies, and positions in economics, law, and cultural life. Trade unions were abolished and workers were forced into the German Labor Union, controlled by Nazi leader Robert Ley. -
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Aryanization
The government decided to prevent the Jews from earning a living, so they dismissed all Jewish workers and managers from 1933 to 1938. In this five-year timespan, the Aryanization period decreased the size of Jewish businesses by about two-thirds. -
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Extreme Example Of Antisemitism
The Holocaust was the murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Many jewish people were killed during these times. This happened between 1933 and 1945, it is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism. -
First Concentration Camp
The S.S. established the first concentration camp in 1933. It was called Dachau, it held German political prisoners and also those who were Jewish. -
The "SS" (The elite guard of the Nazi Party)
Even though local authorities continued to establish and manage forced-labor and detention camps all over Germany, after December of 1934 the SS became the
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The Nuremberg Laws
At theannual party rally held in Nuremberg, the Nazi leaders annouced new laws that stated the racial ideas that the Nazi's believed in. These laws got rid of most of the Jews basic rights, this includes: the right to vote, the right to hold public office, and the right to marry whom they please. -
SS Death's Head Unit
One SS Death's Head Unit was assigned to every concentration camp. All SS Units wore the Death's Head symbol (skull and crossbones) on their caps and only a few were allowed to wear this intimidating symbol on their lapels. -
1936 Olympic Games
olympic Games was when the natxis didnt want the rest of the world to know what they did to the jews so they took everything down -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, also to referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, was a series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on November 9, 1938. Jewish homes were turned inside out, as were shops, towns and villages, as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered in pieces of smashed windows which is where the name "the night of broken glass" came about. -
Starting the Euthanasia program
They started killing children 3 and youger that was mentally and phisically disabled. It started in the spring and Summer months of 1939. The Euthanasia program was led by Philipp Bouheler. -
The rise of the "T4"
The T4 stands for the address of the programs coordinating office in Berlin: Tiergartenstrasse 4. They established several gasing installations for adults and children that were mentally and phisically disabled. THe T4 ended in 1942 -
Start of the War
At the start of the war the Nazi Party had 6 camps already going. They would have the priosoners of these camps work hard and long days to make more camps. When the Nazi's invaded Poland the camps went from hard to the extreme. -
Ghetto in Poland
The first ghetto was establish in german occpied Poland. On October 9, 1939 german officer sent over 10,000 jews to the new ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. It was a 1.1 square mile area, and was the first of 1,000s of Ghettos. -
Occupation of Denmark
After the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940, a resistance movement began opperations there. This was a big time for them because now they will have a good chance of winning against Hittler. This movement was to stop capturing Jews and putting them in diffrent types of camps for death. -
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Mass Murder of Soviet prisoners
German miltary and sercuity collaberated on mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war. Jews and top military and political leaders were selected to be shot. -
Invasion of Soviet Union in the Late Fall of 1941
the germans and Einsatzgruppen went deap into the Soviet Union in 1941. They began to have the mass killings of jews as well as deporting them to germany. -
Gas Vans
Gas Vans are mobile gas chambers, they are attached to the back of cargo trucks. Gas Chambers were made for more efficient killings of Jews, and they saved bullets. -
First Killing Centers
The first killing center was Chelmo located in Warthegau ( part of Poland annexed to Germany) in December 1941. 6,000 jewish prisonors were gassed each day. Most of the jews were gassed in mobil gas vans there at the camp. -
Mass Murders of the Soviet Prisoners
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Subsequent neuremburg Procdeedings
prosecuters tried 177 people and won convictoins of about 97 defendants. trials were for the purpose of determining the guilt of second-tier Nazis accused of those crimes. -
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Operation Reinhard Killing Centers
In the Operation Reinhard Centers, the SS and their auxiliaries killed approximately 1,526,500 Jews between March 1942 and November 1943. These type of centers were brutal tp the Jews. Most of the Jews died the first few days at the camp. -
Jews went into hiding
Jews went into hiding because the Nazi Police -
Euthanasia programs on Jews
German medical professionals, that were on hitler's side, helped the Euthenasia program bring the gas chambers to concentration/death camps. These new gas chambers killed more than 200,000 jews -
revealing the murders of jews
the State Department recieved a cable revealing the murder of Europes Jews. However the report sent by Gerhart Reigner (Jewish leader of WJC) The state Department asked Wise, to refrain from anouncing this informaton. -
U.S. and British meet in Bermuda.
After failing to rescue victims of the holocaust, U.S. and British officails meet in Bermuda. They went there to discuss war issues. There were no problems solved. -
Aushwitz -Brkenau (Largest Killing Center)
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Lots of murders of jewish people by Nazi leaders.
The year of 1943 a guy named Jan Karski told president Rooselvelt that there was a lot of murder from Nazi leaders in Warsaw ghetto. That year Roosevelt came up with the War Refugee Board. -
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Aushwitz-Birkenau (Largest Killing Center)
In the Spring of 1943 and the war and Nazi's were at their peak Aushwitz-Birkenau opened up. Aushwitz-Birkenau was the largest killing center throught the whole war, with four gas chambers and 6000 Jews were gased every day there. By November 1944 over a million Jews and tens and thousands of Roma, Poles, and Soviet Prisoners of war were killed as well. Aushwitz is the camp that Anne Frank and her sister Margot moved to. -
Warsaw Ghetto
On May 6 1943 Warsaw occupied the largest Ghetto of 400,000 jews. The 400,000 where trapped in a 1.3 square mile area. 1.3 square miles may sound small, but some ghettos were less that .1 square mile! -
Jewish resistance in Warsaw ghetto
In April-May 1943, when Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were hearing rumors of that the Germans would send them to the treblinka killing center. When SS Guards and Nazi police units entered the ghetto, The Jewish Fighting Organization attacked German tanks with Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms -
Jewish resistance attacks in Vilnius, Bialystak
After the attack of the Warsaw ghetto , ghetto inhabitants attacked Germans in Vilnius, Bialysak to protect Jewish honor and to avenge the lost of so many Jews. Many other jews escaped ghetto and joined Soviet partison units. -
Mass Masacre of Jews
Over a million Soviet Jews were killed during the spring of 1943. Due to the effect of Mobile Killing of both, Gas Vans and shootings. -
Jewish rebelion at Treblinka and Sobibor killing centers
On this day, Jewish prisoners in Treblinka and Sobibor killing center attacked ss staff and auxiliary guards with stolen weapons, most of the rebels were killed but some escaped alive. -
Moscow Declaration
Foreign secretaries signed the Moscow Declaraiton. It "stated that at the time of an armistice persons deemed responsible for war crimes would be sent back to those countries in which the crimes had been committed " Post war -
Approximate Death Count
The SS and their allies killed approximatly 1,526,500 jews between March 1942 and November 1943. this process included gasing, and firing squad, all done at organized killing centers -
Operation Reinhard Killing Centers
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hiding the jews
People who helped jews go into hiding had justas several punishments as did the jews. -
International Military Tribunal (IMT)
The best known of the postwar crime trials. they caught war criminals on charges of crimes aganst peace, war crimea and crimes against humanity. they defined crimes against humanity as,"murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation...or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds." Twelve of those convicted were sentenced to death." -
Discovery of The Gas Chambers
The Allies knew of the killing operations using poison gas at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Jewish leaders pleaded for people to bomb the chambers but they didn't. -
People die at the Baltic Sea.
The freezing cold winter at the concentration camps increased a lot of deaths of jewish people. The reason is because they didnt have no shelter. While having no shelter there was also sickness spreading, most people got sick or froze to death. -
Roma Resist the Nazis
Roma or Gypsises are prisoners at the Death Camp of Aushwitz. In May 1944 SS Men came and ordered them to leave their Barracks at the Family Camp part of Aushwitz and to be sent to Death in gas chambers. The Roma were ready for them armed with knives and axes they refused to leave. -
Attempts of Killing Hittler
In July 1944, a coulitions of diffrent groups made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adlof Hittler. Because of all the attempts, Hittler decited to send all of the attempters to death camps. In the death camps, they used gas chambers. Thos was not a happy time for these people expesually Jews. -
Forced marches
Many prisoners survived Forced Marches.Europe began Encountering thousands of consentraiton camp prisoners. the prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. -
How Death Marches were carried out
Most evacations were carried out by train, because they were afraid something will happen to them and winter is approching and they need more people to die, so they carried out death marches from east to west for jews to die of starvation and exhaution. -
Jewish Special Detachment attack in Auschwitz-Birkenau
on this day,the Jewish Special Detachment attacked SS guards at Auschwitz- Birkenau, Nearly 250 rebels died in the fighting -
Third Reich faces defeat.
As the Third Reich stood on the verge of military defeat, most of German east Prussia was already under Soviet occupation. As Warsaw, Poland, Budapest, and Hungary prepared to push German forces back. -
The different liberations
Europe and America liberaited Aushwitz, Burgan-Belson ,BuchenWald and many other consentration camps. these were the three biggest consentration camps. (Liberation- to set free). -
Soviet Union victory
January 12, 1945 Soviet Union invade Budapast, one of the major ghettos. Freeing 90,000 people from germany control. This was a major event in the ending on ghettos. -
March Through the cities
A group of jewish people marched through Waltratshausen on their way to a new concentration camp. No gave any aid to the weakened marchers. Few paid any attention at all to the group. -
Euthanasia program has ended
The Euthanasia program has killed more than 200,000 people. This amount of people incude Jews and adults/children that is mentally and phisically disabled.
