Anti Semitism and the Holocaust

Nuremburg Laws

• 1933-39
  
• Anti-Jewish laws
• Forced to register and wear Star of David
• Forcing Jews out of careers and homes
• Prohibited marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans
• Finally loss of citizenship

Kristallnacht

• November 9 1938
• Jewish shops and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned
• Many Jews imprisoned
• State sanctioned event

Propaganda 

• Josef Goebbels, propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party
• Effected all aspects of German life

Promoted:

• Aryan Race
• Anti-Semitism
• Anti-Communism

• Lebensraum (living space in the east)
• Organized mass rallies for army and citizens
• Nuremburg night rallies the most famous
  

Aryan Race and the Final Solution

• Hitler's original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
• Aryan (Nordic race) thought to be superior beings
• Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
• Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour
• July 1941 final solution --> extermination of the Jewish race as a priority
• Carried out by Einsatzguppen a special section of the S.S.
• Shooting and burying them wasn't fast enough
• Gas chambers became the popular
• Made famous in places such as Auschwitz

Summary

Hitlers brownshirts participated in the burning of the Reichstag which ultimately began a Communist Revolution (because Hitler blames a Dutch Communist.) Hitler also becomes Chancellor, forms the Gestapo and the March Enabling Act of 1933. The night of the long knives allows Hitler to receive 99.9% of votes.