? starter activity

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? starter activity
You are going to play a board game similar to
snakes and ladders. Record which square you land
on and what happens to you. The first person to
reach square 49 must open the envelope and read
the instruction sheet inside.
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Why did the Nazis persecute many groups in
Germany?
? Aims

• To identify who were Aryans and who were
  undesirables
• To find out how Nazis dealt with undesirables
• To study the events of Kristallnacht

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Aryan master race

• Characteristics tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed
• Pure genetic race not result of racial
  interbreeding
• Physically strong and healthy
• Brought up to believe in traditional family values

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Undesirables

• Burden on the community
• Work-shy
• Unhealthy or disabled
• Tramps beggars
• Alcoholics
• Prostitutes
• Criminals
• Homosexuals
• Gypsies

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What is going on in this photograph?
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Nazi scientists taking impressions of gypsy faces
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? Your task

• Read p. 104 in your text books. Copy the steps
  the Nazis took against undesirables and give two
  examples of what the Nazis did at each stage.
• Step 1 Propaganda
• Step 2 Sterilisation
• Step 3 Concentration camps
• Step 4 Euthanasia

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What would have been the Nazi attitude to this
girl? Why?
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Reasons for anti-Semitism

• Anti-Semitism common in Europe for many centuries
• Jews were associated with revolution and
  Communism
• Suspicion over their wealth power Jews made
  1 of German population but 17 of bankers were
  Jews
• Religious intolerance

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? Your task

• Watch the film about the infamous attack on
  Jewish communities across Germany in 1938, known
  as Kristallnacht and complete the questions your
  teacher provides.

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? Plenary

• What characteristics did Aryans share?
• Why did the Nazis persecute Jews undesirables?

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? Homework

• Complete the timeline activity on the events
  leading up to Kristallnacht.