8.10.5 Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians. Cause and Consequences of the Holocaust
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8.10.5 Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the
Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
Cause and Consequences of the Holocaust
People are radically unequal.Aryans were the “Master Race”Other races threatened the “purity” of their
race
Nazi Ideology What did they believe?
“living space”Room to growInvading Europe and eliminating other ethnicities.
Lebensraum
Explain how his ideology is a cause of ethnic persecution and eventually the Holocaust.
Question?
Soon after Hitler took power in 1933, Jewish persecution began. Under Hitler, Jews were….
Persecution of the Jews
1935“At their annual party rally, the Nazis announce new
laws that revoke Reich citizenship for Jews and prohibit Jews from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." "Racial infamy," as this becomes known, is made a criminal offense. The Nuremberg Laws define a "Jew" as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents. Consequently, the Nazis classify as Jews thousands of people who had converted from Judaism to another religion, among them even Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers whose grandparents were Jewish.”
One policy from the Nuremberg Laws states that Jewish people can not marry outside their ethnicity, what do you think happened to couples that were married outside their ethnicity?
Question?
After World War II broke outIn 1939, Jewish persecution spreadIn Eastern Europe, the Nazis began to send
out killing squads. They also built brutal slave labor camps.
Final Solution
Around 1942, the persecution became a genocide
(an effort to kill an entire group of people.) The Nazis built death camps that served as
centers for the mass murder of Jews. Most of the killing took place at six camps in
Poland.
Genocide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1G422YwCMg.
Hitler called this his “final solution” to the Jewish question.
“Just as Nature concentrates its greatest attention, not to the maintenance of what already exists but on the selective breeding of offspring in order to carry on the species, so in human life also it is less a matter of artificially improving the existing generation – which, owing to human characteristics, is impossible in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred – and more a matter of securing from the very start a better road for future development." -- Adolf Hitler