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Anti-semitism
Hostile
actions and
prejudice
towards
Jewish
people
Pogrom
Organised
violence against the
Jewish
communities
Stereotype
A widely held
belief
that is very
simplified
and often completely wrong
Reasons for historical persecution of Jews
Christianity was the
dominant
religion in europe
Jews were
blamed
for the
death
of Jesus
Many money
lenders
were
Jewish
so people in
debt
often disliked them
Aryan
Race - Persecution under
Nazis
(
1933-1938
)
The belief that
white europeans
or
‘aryans’
were
superior
to other
ethnic
groups
Boycott: Persecution under Nazis (1933-1938)
People avoiding certain
businesses
to make a point. In
1933
the Nazis encouraged Germans to
boycott
Jewish businesses
Nuremberg laws: Persecution under Nazis (1933-1938)
A series of laws passed in
1935
by the nazis, said that Jews were not German
citizens
and
banned
Jews from having a
relationship
with ‘Aryans’
Reasons the Nazis dislike Jews: Persecution under Nazis (
1933-1938
)
Blamed
them for the loss of
WW1
Blamed
them for causing
economic
problems in
Germans
Stereotype them as being anti
German
Kristallnacht - 7th nov 1938: violence against Jews and ghettos (1938-1942)
Means the ’night of
broken
glass’
nazi thugs
destroyed
thousands of
Jewish
businesses, burned
250
synagogues and arrested
30
,
000
Ghetto: violence against Jews and ghettos (1938-1942)
A
walled off part if a city where Jews were
forced
to live often in
terrible
living conditions with lots of
diseases
and
starvation
Warsaw ghetto: violence against Jews and ghettos (1938-1942)
Ghetto in
Warsaw,
poland with over
40
,
000
occupants
in
1943
there was an armed uprising led by a Jewish
resistance
group in response to people being moved to
extermination
camps
WW2-1939: violence against
Jews
and
ghettos
(1938-1942)
When the war started millions more Jew came under the
control
of
Nazis
in
Poland
and
Russia
Einsatzgruppen
: violence against
Jews
and
ghettos
(
1938-1942
)
Killing
squads
whose job it was to
murder jews
(operated in
Soviet Union)
Final solution: The final solution
The name given to the
Nazis
idea of dealing with the ‘Jewish problem’ -
6
,
000
,
000
Jews would be
murdered
Wannsee conference: The final solution
Meeting held in
1942
where leading Nazis decided to
exterminate
the Jews under their control
Extermination camps: The final solution
camps designed with the specific purpose of
killing
often using
zyklon
B
gas
the
largest
of these camps was
auschwitz-birkenau
Intentionalist
A
historian
who believes events like the Holocaust were
carefully
planned
Functionalist
A
historian
who believes that events like the
Holocaust
happen as
situations
present
themselves