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Abreit Macht Frei

Work Brings Freedom Unit 7, SSWH 18 b. THE HOLOCAUST. Abreit Macht Frei. Holocaust Begins 1935. • Hitler and Nazis say Aryans —Germanic peoples—are “master race” They launch the Holocaust —systematic murder of Jews and others. Anti-Semitism.

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Abreit Macht Frei

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  1. Work Brings Freedom Unit 7, SSWH 18 b THE HOLOCAUST AbreitMachtFrei

  2. Holocaust Begins 1935 • •Hitler and Nazis say Aryans—Germanic peoples—are “master race” • They launch the Holocaust—systematic murder of Jews and others

  3. Anti-Semitism • Nazis tap into long-held feeling of many Europeans against Jews • 1935 Nuremberg Laws take away rights of German Jews • Kristallnacht—“night of broken glass,” November 9, 1938 • Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, 100 killed

  4. A Flood of Refugees • Fearing more violence, many German Jews flee to other countries • •Hitler favors emigration but other countries limit Jewish refugees

  5. Isolating the Jews • Jews moved to designated cities • •They are forced to live in ghettos—separate Jewish areas • Hitler hopes that Jews will die of disease, starvation • •Despite bad conditions, Jews survive in these areas

  6. Hitler Seeks New Answer • • “Final Solution”—Hitler’s final plan for Jews, chose genocide—systematic killing of an entire people • Nazis in Eastern Europe & Soviet Union create killing squads • They shoot men, women, children in mass executions • •Jews sent to concentration camps or slave labor prisons

  7. The Final Stage • By 1942, Nazis building huge, extermination camps (Auschwitz one of the worst/largest camps) • • Camps separate strong from weak people • • Weak (mostly women, children, elderly, sick) killed immediately

  8. The Survivors • Nazis kill about six million European Jews during the war • •Fewer than four million survive

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