Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- The first reports to the west came in Jan. of 1942 when the New York Times reported 100,000 Jews had been machine gunned in the Baltic States
- July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the Soviets liberated a camp called Majdanek
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust
- 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 a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S.
- Shooting and burying them was not fast enough
- Gas chambers became the popular
- Made famous places such as Auschwitz
- Josef Goebbels, the 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
- Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party
- Hitler’s original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
Summary
Hitlers brownshirts participated in the burning of the Reichstag which ultimately began a Communist Revolution. Hitler also becomes Chancellor in Germany, which he then forms the Gestapo and the March Enabling Act of 1933. The night of the long abled Hitler to receive 99.9 percent of the votes the following election.