day 1

• Holocaust: the systematic murder of 6 million jews across Europe
• Anti-Semitism: Hatred of the jews
• Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's failures+ believed they should be removed and only members of the German Master race should be accepted
• Jews were forced to wear a yellow star of David on their clothing to identify them as Jews
• Kristallnacht - night of broken glass

  • nov. 9 + 10, 1938

  organized attack, from Nazi's through Germany+ Austria, on Jewish homes, businesses and churches
• many jews couldn’t leave Germany because they had no money or place to go
• Albert Einstein: German scientist who was exiled and came to the US
• Hitler wanted to completely remove all Jews from Europe and called his plan the “Final Solution“
• Hitler followed the policy of Genocide to follow through with his plan
• Genocide: the deliberate and systematic killing of a population
• nazi’s targeted Gypsy’s, the mentally ill, and homosexuals