Par 2.4 The mass murder of the Jews - Trapped

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§2.4 The mass murder of the Jews

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Program

• Measures against Jews in Germany
• The faith of the Jews in Poland and Eastern-Europe

Homework next class

• Make par. 2.4: assignments 8 and 9

After today...

... You will be able to explain which measures were taking against the Jewish people in Germany

... You will be able to explain what faith the Jewish people awaited in Poland and Eastern Europe

Measures against Jews in Germany

• 1933: losing jobs, boycotting shops
• Jewish businesses were taken over by others

• 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws
• 1935-1938: banned from public areas (swimming pools, parks, restaurants, cinemas)

What was the objective of the Nazis' implementation of the Nuremberg Laws?

Measures against Jews in Germany

1938:  

• Special ID cards for Jews with the letter 'J' stamped in it
• Jews, gypsies and gay people were imprisoned in concentration camps
• Jewish children could no longer attend German schools
• 9 Nov 1938 - Reichskristallnacht: Jewish stores, synagogues and businesses all over Germany and Austria were destroyed by the SA and set on fire

Measures against Jews in Germany

1941:

• Had to wear a yellow David star
• Forbidden to leave the country
• Deportation to ghettos/extermination camps starts

1942:

• All schools closed to Jewish children

Why would Hitler take all these measures against the Jews?

The faith of the Jews in Poland and Eastern-Europe

• Many were killed during the Invasion of Poland
• Similar treatment as the German Jews
• Synagoges were set on fire, lots of violence
• Ghettos were build for the Jews to live (cut of from the rest of the city)
• German army advance to the Soviet Union: thousands of Jews were shot and put into mass graves
• End of 1941: 1 million Jewish people had been shot in Poland and the S.U.