The Holocaust Flashcards
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The Holocaust
The holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe’s Jewish population by the Nazis and their collaborations during WW2. Mass extermination of a whole people was conducted using industrial methods. Between 1933 and 1945 Jewish people were subjected to discrimination, segregation and extermination.
Antisemitism
Describe specific discrimination against any person of the Jewish faith
Discrimination such as using religious slurs, confiscation or destruction of property, exile, torture or murder.
For many countries, Jewish communities were not allowed to own land or work for the government, they tended to congregate in suburbs and work in middle class occupations
Propaganda
Before WWII, Germany was modern and advanced.
The Nazis used propaganda, radios, posters, films, and newspapers to spread Nazi ideology and loyalty to Hitler.
Schools removed non-Nazi and Jewish staff, and education promoted Nazi beliefs, especially racial superiority.
Books like The Poisonous Mushroom taught children to hate Jews.
The regime encouraged boycotts of Jewish businesses and promoted antisemitic laws and propaganda.
Aims of Holocaust
1.Germanisation – Expanding Nazi control by removing or killing non-Germans in occupied areas
2. Aryanisation – “Purifying” the Aryan race by eliminating Jews and other groups considered racially, politically, or socially inferior.
Targeted Jews, Romani people, political opponents, homosexuals and people with disabilities
Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass):
On 9–10 November 1938, Jewish homes, shops, and synagogues were violently attacked in response to the assassination of a German official. About 100 Jews died, and thousands were arrested.
