Holocaust

• Measures taken against the Jews

  • Millions killed in extermination camps
  • Lost all citizenship
  • Emigration to remove Jews
• When did it happen?

  • Mass killing began in 1939 with invasion of Poland
  • Systematic programme of elimination of all Jews, July - October 1941
• How could it happen?

  • Hitler saw Jews as the reason why they lost WW1
  • Jews were perceived as having diseases
  • Hitler made people believe they will destroy German people
• Why did German people allow it to happen?

  • Unable to prevent it, Nazi Germany was a terror state
  • Accepted it > influenced by propaganda
  • Unaware > didn't have enough evidence and Nazi used language of euphemism
• Why did Nazis commit mass murder?

  • Hitler: doubts about his own ancestry and diseased aspects of his own personality
  • Heavily influenced by Hitler's arguments, people didn't want to disobey in fear of punishment