Motives, Processes, and Consequences of the Holocaust

1. OBJECTIVE: SWBATevaluate the motives, processes, and consequences of the HolocaustIOT DRILL:1. Grab a textbook!2. What does the Holocaust mean to you? Motives, Processes, and Consequences of the Holocaust

2. Define these terms: • 1. new order • 2. resettlement • 3. Poland • 4. memorial museum • 5. never again • 6. Elie Wiesel • 7. final solution • 8. Kristallnacht • 9. Birkenan • 10. Zyklon B • 11. yellow star • 12. genocide • 13. concentration camp • 14. six million

3. Key Questions • How many clues did it take you to identify the topic? • What is the Holocaust? • (The Holocaust was a period in German history, during World War II, when the Nazi leadership attempted to destroy all European Jews.) • Which term revealed the topic for you? Have students speculate on the meaning of each term in relationship to the Holocaust. • Why were we able to identify the topic? • What other word clues could you add to this list?

4. Modern World History, p. 451 • Why did Hitler blame the Jews for most of Germany’s problems? • Why was the Nazi strategy to blame Jews for Germany’s problems so successful with the German people? • How did the Nazi’s master race theory contribute to anti-Jewish feeling? • What communications technique did the Nazi’s use to create an anti-Semitic movement in Germany? (propaganda over the radio and the use of motion picture film)

5. CON 18, “The Poisonous Mushroom.” • The source of the illustration is a book, DerGiftpilz (The Toadstool) by Ernest Hiemer, published in 1938. It was a children’s book, sometimes used in German schools. • The translation of the picture’s caption is as follows: “Just as it is often hard to tell a toadstool from an edible mushroom, so too it is often very hard to recognize the Jew as a swindler and criminal.”

6. CON 19 “Excerpts from Mein Kampf” • What was Hitler’s motivation for attacking the Jewish people? • Throughout world history, why have minority groups been singled out for abuse by majority groups? • How might German Jews respond to Hitler’s ideas as expressed in Mein Kampf?

7. What does this mean to you? • “The world is too dangerous to live in -- not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen.” • Albert Einstein

8. Quote No. 1: • “Jews should be removed as rapidly as possible from all Reich territories, in particular because as carriers of disease they are a great danger to society at large and as incorrigible black marketeers they are undermining the economy of the country. Besides our 2.5 million Jews are totally unfit for work.”

9. Quote No. 2: • “The Jew must get out of Europe. Otherwise we will get no European understanding. The world over he is the chief agitator against us. All I can say is that he must go away. If, in the process, he is bruised, I can’t help it! If he does not leave voluntarily, I see no solution other than extermination.”

10. Quote No. 3: • “We fully realize that the war can only end either with the extermination of the Aryan peoples or the disappearance of the Jews from Europe. I guarantee that it will be with the destruction of Jewry.”

11. Quote No. 4: • “My prophecy will be fulfilled. This war will not destroy Aryan humanity, but will exterminate the Jew. Such will be the ultimate outcome of this conflict, whatever its repercussions and no matter how long it lasts. There can be no peace until the liquidation of this parasite.”

12. Quote No. 5: • “There is no room for sentimentality. The Jews deserve the catastrophe in which they are caught up today. They will experience their own destruction. We must assist in their effort by hastening this process impassively, and in so doing render all inestimable service to humanity which has suffered at the hands of Jewry for thousands of years.”

13. Motives, Processes, and Consequences of the Holocaust PART 2- (SAME OBJECTIVE) • DRILL: Get ready to read, write, and share • GET OUT YOUR HOMEWORK- 14 vocabulary words

14. READ THIS!!!!-ARTICLE Nazi Germany - Minority Groups • Adolf Hitler was familiar with the work of 19th century scientists who spoke of Northern European blond-haired, blue-eyed peoples as being Aryan, a ‘Master Race’ because they had remained racially pure throughout the ages. • In his book, Mein Kampf (Mein Struggle), Hitler explained how he believed that the German people were the true Aryan race and that their purity and superiority had to be maintained at all costs by prohibiting intermarriage and expelling or eliminating those who had no place in the master race. Hitler also explained how the Aryans had been responsible for all major advances in civilisation but that the Jews wanted to destroy everything they had achieved. • The persecution of those who did not fit Hitler’s ideal Aryan master race began soon after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. They included Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, the disabled, Jehovah’s witnesses, political opponents, the unemployed, the homeless and ethnic minorities.

16. Read-Answer : Share-Answer • Partner up… read your article and answer the question that applies. Be able to explain the basic as well…. • WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, and HOW. • Share that answer with the class!

17. TIMELINE- NAZI GERMANY • Write down the 7 most important events and place them correctly on the timeline. • Be able to justify why you chose those 7.