Notes
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- The first reports to the west came in Jan. of 1942 when the New York Times reported 100,000 Jews had been machine gunned in the Baltic States
- July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the Soviets liberated a camp called Majdanek
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust
- Germany could do this because of propaganda (joseph goebbels) Lebensraum (living space in the east) organized mass rallies (for army and citizens)
- 1933 - 1939
- Anti-Jewish laws
- Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David
- This turned into forcing Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans
- Finally loss of citizenship
- November 9th 1938
- Kristall (glass)
- Nacht (night)
- Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned
- Many Jews imprisoned
- State sanctioned event
- People began to leave the country
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
- JULY 1941 Final Solution = extermination of the Jewish race priority
- Gas chambers became popular because it was quick
Summary
Antisemitism. The Nuremburg Laws were laws against Jews. Kristallnacht was the night when thousands of Jewish shops and books were burned. Many Jews were imprisoned, and machine guns were taking too long to kill them, so gas chambers became extremely popular.
Quotes
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." - Hitler
Subjunctive Questions
Could of the Holocaust ended earlier somehow? Or could of it not even happened at all?