Nazi Germany - treatment of the Jews
- Created by: Naomi
- Created on: 21-04-13 16:45
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- Jews
- Ideas about the pure German race
- Nazis believed that Germans were the Master Race and so they were better mentally and physically
- The fact that they were the master race could only be protected by preventing the different races from mixing
- Civil Service
- In 1933 any person that was Jewish and worked for the Government lost their job
- Boycott of shops
- In 1933 the Nazis encouraged Germans not to use Jewish shops
- They painted Juden (Jew) on the shop window and posted guards at the door of shops
- Nuremberg laws
- A law was passed which said that Jews were not allowed to marry or have sex with a pure German
- Everyone had to carry identity papers so everybody knew who was German and who was Jewish
- In addition Jews bacame non-persons
- They were not German citizens and had no rights
- A law was passed which said that Jews were not allowed to marry or have sex with a pure German
- Krystallnacht
- In 1938 the SA attacked synagogues and Jewish businesses all over Germany
- They arrested 30,000 Jewish men
- Star of David
- To make identification of Jews easier from 1940 they all had to wear the Star of David
- Invasion of Eastern Europe
- When the Nazis invaded other countries the number of Jews under German control went from 300,00 to millions
- Ghettos
- To make control of the Jews easier the Nazis rounded up the Jews and forced them into ghettos
- The ghettos were hopelessly overcrowded and the food intake was just a few hundred calories a day
- To make control of the Jews easier the Nazis rounded up the Jews and forced them into ghettos
- Wannsee conference
- In 1942 Nazis realised that shooting the Jews was too inefficient
- They decided to kill all the Jews in concentration camps by gassing them
- In 1942 Nazis realised that shooting the Jews was too inefficient
- Concentration Camps
- A network of camps was built across Europe leading to the death camps
- Death by gas
- All the sick, elderly, children and mothers were gassed on arrival
- Everyone else worked to their death at which point they were gassed
- The gas chambers could hold up to 100 and everyone was dead in 15 minutes
- All the sick, elderly, children and mothers were gassed on arrival
- Ideas about the pure German race
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