Nazi Ideology and Policies Leading to the Holocaust
Explore the Nazi ideology and policies that fueled the Holocaust, including Nazi racism, anti-Semitism, and the progression towards the Final Solution. Understand the consequences of these beliefs through events like Kristallnacht and the establishment of concentration camps.
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Holocaust Element: Identify Nazi ideology, policies, and consequences that led to the Holocaust. Vocabulary: Nazi ideology, Holocaust
Nazi Ideology Nazi Racism: idea that the Germans, or Aryans, were the Master race all non-Aryans were inferior; especially the Jews
Nazi Ideology Anti-Semitism: hatred of Jewish people long existed in Western Europe during the depression of the 1920s Hitler claimed the entire Jewish community were anti-German and the source of the nation s problems Jewish leaders also played a dominate role in the acceptance of the Treaty Versailles in 1919
Nazi Ideology After 1920s: Jews became the national enemy of Germany
Policies First Solution: Nuremburg Laws laws passed to reduce the right of Jewish people in Germany ex. German and Jews could not marry
Policies Kristallnacht: night of broken glass terror campaign against Jewish synagogues and Jewish owned businesses
Policies Isolation: All Jews were forced to wear a patch with the Star of David Ghettos - Germans began moving Jews into designated cities then into run down parts of the city known as ghettos Concentration Camps Hitler moved Jews out of the cities to work camps that forced the Jews to work for the Nazi s. Stripped the Jewish community of individuality, taking way all their belongings.
Policies Final Solution: Concentration camps became death camps: example Auschwitz Hitler s plan for genocide or killing off of the Jews SS troops (Hitler s security force) became killing squads that searched through all German controlled territories hunting down Jews
Extermination Camps Auschwitz Extermination Camp
Concentration Camps Buchenwald Camp
Consequences of the Holocaust the slaughter of an estimated 6 million Jews (does not include Roma-Gypsies, Slavs, Poles, Handicapped, among others) Nuremberg Trials: Nazi leaders brought to trial for crimes against humanity (Holocaust) The Holocaust matters today because the violence against the Jews led to the founding of Israel after World War II.
Jews Killed Under Nazi Rule Original Jewish Population 3,300,000 Jews Killed Percent Surviving Poland 2,800,000 15% Soviet Union 2,100,000 1,500,000 29% Hungary 404,000 200,000 49% Romania 850,000 425,000 50% Germany/ Austria 270,000 210,000 22%
Aftermath General Eisenhower inspects a camp in 1945.
