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The Holocaust
Chapter 24, section 3
Nazi Persecution of the Jews
• The Jews will receive the worst of the racial policies outlined by Hitler in Mein Kampf
• All Jews were considered evil, no matter their religion, job, or education
Nazi Persecution of the Jews
• Nuremberg Laws
• Passed in 1935
• Took citizenship away from Jews
• Banned marriages between Jews and Germans
Nazi Persecution of the Jews
• By summer of 1936, half of Jews were unemployed
• Many Jews leave, but most stayed
Nazi Persecution of the Jews
• Kristallnacht
• Means “night of broken glass”
• Nov.9, 1938, marked beginning of the anti-Jewish violence that erupted in Germany
Nazi Persecution of the Jews
• Jews were rounded up and contained in concentration camps
• Used as slave labor for military industries
• Many were worked to death
Nazi Persecution of the Jews• Jan. 1942, German
leaders will meet at Wannsee Conference to answer the Jewish problem
• Their “final solution” was to create extermination camps and mass execute the Jews
Nazi Persecution of the Jews
• All of the death camps were created outside of the nation in Germany
• Auschwitz will be the deadliest of the camps—over 1.7 million killed
Nazi Persecution of the Jews• Results of the Holocaust:
• 6 million Jews killed (2/3 of European population)
• Millions of others also killed for their “inferiority”
• Numerous German leaders will be executed after WWII for their “Acts against humanity”