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1) Why do you think Hitler targeted the Jews?
2) Why do you think so many Germans went along with Hitler’s
plans?
9.3- Jewish Persecution
• The Nazi’s killed nearly 6 million Jews and million of other people during the Holocaust.
• Shoah- Hebrew term for the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews before and during World War II.
• The Nazis persecuted anyone who opposed them: disabled, homosexuals, Eastern European people.
• The Nazis’ strongest hatred was aimed at all Jews.
Nazi Persecution
• Nuremberg Laws- September 1935- took citizenship away from Jewish Germans.
• Banned marriage between Jews and Germans.• German Jews were deprived of their rights.
Kristallnacht
• Anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany and Austria on November 9, 1938.
• Kristallnacht- “night of broken glass”.• 90 Jews died, hundreds were badly hurt, and
thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed
Jewish Escape
• Between 1933 and 1939 about 350,000 Jews escaped Nazi-controlled Germany.
• Some emigrated to the US but many became trapped in Nazi-dominated Europe because they could not get visas to leave.
The Final Solution
• January 20, 1942- Nazi leaders decided on the “final solution” for Jews and other “undesirables”.
• Final Solution- The plan to round up Jews and take them to concentration camps.
• These were detention centers where healthy individuals worked as slave laborers.
• The elderly, sick, and young children were sent to extermination camps to be killed in large gas chambers.
• Most concentration camps were build in Poland and thousands of Jews were killed each day.
Guided Practice
• Map Explanation
Independent Practice• 1) Label the map using the activity.• 2) For each location- write down the name of
the place and a short sentence explaining why it was important (what happened there?).