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Title: Jews in Nazi Germany


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Jews in Nazi Germany
  • 1933-39

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  • The Jews in Nazi Germany suffered appallingly
    after January 1933.
  • Thugs in the SA and SS were given a free hand in
    their treatment of the Jews

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Mein Kampf
  • The Jews were frequently referred to in "Mein
    Kampf" and Hitler had made plain his hated for
    them.  References to the "filthy Jew" litter the
    book. In one section, Hitler wrote about how the
    Jews planned to "contaminate" the blood of pure
    Germans

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  • The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on
    end.......spying on the unsuspicious German girl
    he plans to seduce..........He wants to
    contaminate her blood and remove her from the
    bosom of her own people. The Jew hates the white
    race and wants to lower its cultural level so
    that the Jews might dominate." "Was there any
    form of filth or crime...without at least one Jew
    involved in it. If you cut even cautiously into
    such a sore, you find like a maggot in a rotting
    body, often dazzled by the sudden light - a Jew."

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Nazi State
  • Once in power, Hitler used his position to launch
    a campaign against the Jews that culminated in
    the Holocaust.
  • Hitler blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes
    that had befallen Germany

WW1 defeat
Hyperinflation
Treaty of Versailles
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1933 onwards
  • After January 1933, the Jews became the
    "Untermenschen" - the sub-humans
  • Nazi thugs stopped Germans from shopping in
    Jewish shops

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  • SA men stood outside the shops to deter anyone
    form entering. This was not necessarily a violent
    approach to the Jews - that was to come later -
    but it was an attempt to economically bankrupt
    them and destroy what they had spent years
    building up.

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Marking the Jews
  • By 1934, all Jewish shops were marked with the
    yellow Star of David or had the word "Juden"
    written on the window

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Jewish Children
  • Children at schools were taught specifically
    anti-Semitic ideas
  • Jewish school children were openly ridiculed by
    teachers and the bullying of Jews in the
    playground by other pupils went unpunished
  • If the Jewish children responded by not wanting
    to go to school, then that served a purpose in
    itself and it also gave the Nazi propagandists a
    reason to peddle the lie that Jewish children
    were inherently lazy and could not be bothered to
    go to school.

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Nuremburg Laws 1935
  • Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or
    kindred blood are forbidden
  • Extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and
    subjects of the state of Germany or related blood
    is forbidden.
  • Jews will not be permitted to employ female
    citizens of German or kindred blood as domestic
    workers under the age of 45.
  • Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and
    national flag or the national colours

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  • The Jews lost their right to be German citizens.
  • It was after this law that the violence against
    the Jew really openly started.
  • Those that could pay a fine were allowed to leave
    the country.
  • Many could not and many shops refused to sell
    food to those who remained.
  • Medicines were also difficult to get hold of as
    chemists would not sell to Jews

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Berlin Olympics 1936
  • The campaign against the Jews stopped for a short
    duration during the Berlin Olympics - but once
    the overseas press had gone, it started up again
  • Under Goebbels' direction, the Nazis intended to
    use the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a
    showcase for the "new Germany."

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  • The omnipresent 'Jews Not Welcome' signs normally
    seen throughout Germany were removed from hotels,
    restaurants and public places for the duration of
    the Olympics. Nazi storm troopers were also
    ordered to refrain from any actions against Jews.
    The virulent anti-Semitic newspaper published by
    Julius Streicher called Der Stürmer was even
    removed from newsstands. Interestingly, visitors
    wanting to talk to Jews in Berlin about their
    daily experiences or investigate Jewish life in
    Nazi Germany were required to contact the Gestapo
    first, after which they would be closely watched
    until they departed.

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The persecution worsens
  • In November 1938, a Nazi 'diplomat' was shot dead
    by a Jew in Paris
  • Ernest Von Rath was shot and killed by Herschel
    Grynszpan
  • Hitler ordered a seven day campaign of terror
    against the Jews in Germany to be organised by
    Himmler and the SS

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Kristallnacht
  • Night of Broken Glass
  • On the 10th November, the campaign started.
  • 10,000 shops owned by Jews were destroyed and
    their contents stolen.
  • Homes and synagogues were set on fire and left to
    burn.
  • The fire brigades showed their loyalty to Hitler
    by assuming that the buildings would burn down
    anyway, so why try to prevent it?
  • A huge amount of damage was done to Jewish
    property but the Jewish community was ordered to
    pay a one billion mark fine to pay for the
    eventual clear-up.
  • Jews were forced to scrub the streets clean

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  • During Kristallnacht Jewish shops were destroyed
    and 400 synagogues were burnt down.
  • Ninety-one Jews were killed and an estimated
    20,000 were sent to concentration camps.

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