CHAPTER 13 SECTION 3 - Steilacoom

The Holocaust

CHAPTER 13

SECTION 3

THE NUREMBERG LAWS

• During WWII the Nazis killed

millions of people they considered

inferior including more than 6

million Jews.

• The Hebrew term for the

holocaust is “shoah” which

means catastrophe.

• Nazis targeted political opponents,

Jews, homosexuals, gypsies,

Slavs, and the disabled.

THE NUREMBERG LAWS

• After Nazis took control of

Germany, they passed the

Nuremberg Laws which:

• Took citizenship away from Jews

• Prohibited Jews from owning

land

• Banned marriage between Jews

and Germans

• Barred Jews from voting

• Many Jews were forced to live in

ghettos

KRISTALLNACHT

• November 7th, 1938 a Jewish refugee

shot and killed a German diplomat in

Paris.

• The man wanted revenge for

persecution against his and other

Jewish families by the Nazis.

• Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda,

Joseph Goebbels, used the incident

to incite public riots against Jews.

• The night of violence against Jews

that erupted in Germany and Austria

became known as Kristallnacht or

‘night of broken glass’.

JEWISH REFUGEES

• The Gestapo, Germany’s secret

police, began rounding up thousands

of Jews and ordered them to leave the

country.

• Many tried to leave Germany, but

many countries had strict immigration

laws and would not take very many at

a time.

• Germany also allowed Jews to take no

more than $4 with them if they left the

country.

• It was not enough to cover the cost

of starting a new life.

THE FINAL SOLUTION • In 1942, Nazi leaders met at the

Wannsee Conference to determine the

“final solution of the Jewish question.”

• They agreed to round up Jews in all

Nazi occupied territories and send them

to concentration camps to provide

slave labor for as long as they

remained alive.

• Those who could not provide slave

labor, would be sent to extermination

camps to be executed in gas

chambers.