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The Shoah Jewish Studies 330 / April 5, 2012 Dr. William Glenn Gray Department of History. Karl Lueger Mayor of Vienna, 1897-1910. France: the Dreyfus affair. 1898: evidence of Dreyfus ’ s innocence discovered. 1894: Captain Alfred Dreyfus convicted of espionage by military tribunal.
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The ShoahJewish Studies 330 / April 5, 2012Dr. William Glenn GrayDepartment of History
France: the Dreyfus affair 1898: evidence of Dreyfus’s innocence discovered 1894: Captain Alfred Dreyfus convicted of espionage by military tribunal
Theodor Herzl(1860-1904) The Jewish State: Attempt at a modern solution to the Jewish Question (1896)
“Hitler – our last hope”Election results for the NSDAP:1928 - 2.6%1930 - 18.3%July 1932 - 37.3%Nov. 1932 - 33.1%
Jan. 30, 1933:torchlight parades signal the beginning of a new era
April 1, 1933: the SA organizes a boycott ofJewish-owned businesses
The NSDAP’s newspaper announces the Nuremberg Laws, Sept. 1935
Chart interpreting the Nuremberg Laws(outlines who may marry whom)
Leo Baeck (1873-1956)President of the Reich Representation of German Jews, 1933-1938
Anti-Semitic outbursts in Vienna (March 1938):Jews forced to clean streets by hand
Ernst vom Rathand his killer, Herschel Grynszpan(Nov. 7, 1938)
Population in German concentration camps, 1933-39 July 1933 26,700 July 1934 8,000 1936 5,000 1937 8,000 1938 24,000 (for a few weeks, 35,000 Jews) 1939 22,000 (half criminal, half political)
The yellow star:introduced 1940-41in Germany & across occupied Europe
Auschwitz, camp II: Birkenau(photos taken in Feb. 1945,immediately after the camp was cleared)