Day 3: Page 3: Holocaust

1. Day 3: Page 3: Holocaust Agenda: • Quiz • Finish newscasts • Propaganda • Poisonous Mushroom Homework: . Next set of IDs due Tues. 12/11

2. Day 3: Page 3: Holocaust • The Nazis began a racist policy of creating a master race of Aryans • The first step was the Nuremberg Laws that took citizenship away from Jews and said Jews could not marry non-Jews • The Night of Broken Glass, or Kristalnacht on November 9, 1938 was an organized and violent attack on the Jewish community- after that, some Jews left Germany, but some countries began to close their doors to Jewish immigrants • Hitler then began to move Jews into isolated neighborhoods called ghettos • Finally, Hitler began his “Final Solution” in which he would carry out a genocide of Jews and others • Jews and others were rounded up, put on trains and brought to horrible concentration/death camps • At the camps, prisoners were sorted, starved, worked to death, executed • Gas chambers at some camps could kill 6,000 people a day • 6 million Jews and about 6 million others were killed in the Holocaust- the “others” include the mentally ill, physically ill, elderly, Polish Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gypsies, homosexuals and more

3. Nazi Propaganda Just take a look at these images…Jews were depicted as monsters , thieves, etc all over Germany including…

4. Day 3: Page 3: Holocaust http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D24OEVXmW0&feature=related

6. Author of The Poisonous Mushroom • Author: Julius Streicher • It was his life’s mission to “unmask the Jews.” • Became a prominent leader in Nazi propaganda • “It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.” • Published The Poisonous Mushroom • Executed at the Nuremberg Trials

7. Day 3: Page 3: Holocaust Directions: Answer these questions as you read each short story. • How is a Jew described in the story? Use specific evidence from the story. • What is the Jew being blamed of in the story? Again, use specific evidence from the story.