Persecution
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- Created on: 10-05-15 17:34
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- Persecution
- Aryans = Super race
- Blamed Jews for problems in German society
- Wanted population only pure Aryans
- Eliminate homosexuals, disabled, different race or religion
- Angry when African Americans successful in 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Jesse Owens took 4 golds
- Joe Lewis beat German World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Max Schmeling
- Persecution of Jews
- Increased through 1930s
- Nuremberg Laws 193
- Stopped Jews being German citizens
- Banned marriage and sexual relationships between Jews and non-Jews
- Kristallnacht 1938
- Jew murdered a German diplomat in Paris, Nov 1938
- Rioting in Germany: Jewish shops smashed, thousands of Jews arrested
- Ghettos
- After invasions of Poland and Russia- more Jews under Nazis
- 1941: soldiers ordered to kill every Jew they came across
- From 1940
- Walled in, policed by armed guards
- Starvation and disease killed thousands
- Largest in Warsaw
- Rebellion in 1943 ruthlessly put down
- After invasions of Poland and Russia- more Jews under Nazis
- Final Solution 1942
- Plan to destroy Jews
- Also Slavs, Roma, black people, homosexuals, disabled, communists
- End of the war: approx 6 million Jews killed
- Death camps built in Eastern Europe, gas chambers for mass murder
- Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec
- Heinrich Himmler of ** in charge
- Plan to destroy Jews
- Aryans = Super race
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