Hitler and Nazi persecution (Holocaust)

Hitler and Nazi persecution (Holocaust)

1. Jews~ How?

   • 1933
     • Boycott of Jewish buisness
     • Jewish civil servants, teachers, lawyers sacked
     • Lessons taught to children in school, that Jews are inferior
   • 1935
     • "Jews not wanted" signs put up in swimming pools
     • Jews not allowed to vote
     • Jews not allowed to marry German citizens
   • 1938
     • Jews not allowed to be doctors
     • Jews had to add me name Israel (men) or Sarah (women) to their names so people could identify them
     • Jewish children forbidden from going to school
     • Attacks on Jewish homes ~ Kristallnacht
   • 1939
     • Jews forbidden to own a business
       • or to own a radio
     • Forced to live in ghettoes
   • 1941
     • Army Einsatzgruppen squads in Russia started mass shootings of Jews
     • Forced to wear a yellow star of David
   • 1942
     • Wansee conference. decided on final solution. Which was to gas all Europe's Jews.

2. Others

   • Gypsies
     • sent to concentration camps
   • Homosexuals
     • approx 15,000 imprisoned in camps
     • thousands perished
   • Disabled
     • About 200,000- 350,000 mentally and physically disabled disabled people forcibly sterilized until 1939
     • 200,000 were murdered
       • gassing
       • starvation
       • lethal injections