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The Holocaust Anti-Semitism, and Conspiracy Theory

The Holocaust Anti-Semitism, and Conspiracy Theory. Anti-Semitism. Jews faced prejudice and discrimination throughout history Romans drove them from Israel Outsiders Economically restricted Money lenders Scapegoats Black Death. Anti-Semitism.

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The Holocaust Anti-Semitism, and Conspiracy Theory

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  1. The Holocaust Anti-Semitism,andConspiracy Theory

  2. Anti-Semitism • Jews faced prejudice and discrimination throughout history • Romans drove them from Israel • Outsiders • Economically restricted • Money lenders • Scapegoats • Black Death

  3. Anti-Semitism • 1800s new ideas of freedom and equality spread, but so did ideas of white supremacy • Jews classified as Semites • People who share common blood and physical features • Jewish by race not religion • Anti-Semitism popularized by Karl Laeger (1844-1910) • A politician • Influenced Adolf Hitler

  4. The Holocaust: The Rise of Hitler • WWI loss, depression, weak government • mesmerizing speaker • Supported by the unemployed, young people, lower middle class • Part of the National Social German Workers Party • January 1933 appointed Chancellor of Germany

  5. The Holocaust: The Rise of Hitler • Dictatorship • Ended Individual Freedom • Tens of thousands of young people joined him • Storm Troops or SA • Controlled all types of communication • Burned books • All Quiet on the Western Front • Rewrote textbooks • Jewish businesses were boycotted

  6. Storm Troopers “The Poisonous Mushroom”

  7. Passport of a Jewish person stamped with a “J” for “Jude.”

  8. The Holocaust: The Beginning • Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire” • Purity of the German race • Aryan • Did not want inferiors to reproduce • Jewish people viewed as a race that lived off other races and weakened them • Evil • Inferior • Threat to German Superiority • Gypsies, disabled, Slavic people, and anyone whose behavior was not a social norm were killed as well

  9. Racial Hygienist “The Biology of Growth” “Stages of Growth of Members of the Nordic Race”

  10. The Holocaust: Concentration Camps • 20,000 camps • Labor, transit, and extermination • Dies from exhaustion and starvation • Gas chambers • Auschwitz had 6 gas chambers • Killed 6,000 a day • http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=A0oG7j0jzltPMEUAblxXNyoA?p=oprah%20holocaust%20survivor&fr=fptb-msgr-s&fr2=piv-web “Work makes one free”

  11. The Holocaust: The End • Final Solution • Death Marches • Movement of prisoners due to Allied attacks and fear of liberation • Continued until May 7, 1945 • Survivors • Displaced Persons Camps (DP) • 700,000 emigrated to Israel • Some went to US • Total of 6 million dead, two out of every three Jewish persons

  12. References • All pictures and data credited to: • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2011, January 5). Introduction to the holocaust. Retrieved from http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143

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