WWII Research Project

Anti-Semitism

In your own words, define anti-semitism, racism, discrimination,stereotyping, and prejudice.

AnTI-SEMITISM:

RACISM:

DISCRIMINATION

STEREOTYPING

PREJUDICE

Explain how conditions in Germany after the Treaty of Versailles contributed to the appeal of Hitler and the Nazi party

The Nazi rise to power brought an end to the Weimar Republic established in Germany after World War 1. In 1919, Army veteran Adolf Hitler, frustrated by Germany’s defeat in World War 1, which had left the nation economically depressed and politically unstable, joined a fledgling political organization called the German Workers’ party. Hitler soon emerged as a charismatic public speaker and began attracting new members with speeches blaming Jews and Marxists for Germany’s problems and espousing extreme nationalism and the concept of an Aryan “master race.” In July 1921, he assumed leadership of the organization, which by then had been renamed the Nationalist Socialist German workers.

Explain the role of propaganda in Germany between WWI and WWII. How did Hitler and Goebbels use it to unite the country

Anti-semitic wartime propaganda served a variety of purposes. It was hoped that people in Allied countries would be persuaded that Jews should be blamed for the war. The Nazis also wished to make shore that German people were aware of the extreme measures being carried out against the Jews in order to scare them which guarantee their continued loyalty through fear by Nazi-conjectured scenarios of supposed post-war "Jewish" reprisals.

Nazi Propa-ganda

IRENA SENDLER

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• Feb. 15, 1910-May 12, 2008
• Polish nurse, social worker, served in the Polish underground
• Began aiding Jews in 1939
• In 1941 helping Jews is illegal
• Saved about 2500 children 400 were smuggled out by herself

WHITE ROSE

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• Group of 5 Germans who spoke out against the Nazis
• White Rose expanded into a group students
• White Rose transported and mailed mimeographed leaflets that denounced the Nazis
• The German Secret State Police-Gestapo-hung Hans, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst on Feburary 22, 1943, and the rest of the White Rose members

THE GHETTOS

Describe the emergence of the ghettos as a place of containment for Jews in Nazi controlled Europe

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• During World War II ghettos were city districts in which the Germans forced the Jews to live in miserable conditions
• Ghettos were extremely crowded and most were closed off by walls

How did Jewish culture in the ghettos survive under Nazi rule?

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• The Germans established Jewish councils-Judenraek- Jewish council members were forced to implement Nazi policy
• Jewish council opposition to resistance often prompted resentment within the underground

Describe the events and significance of the Warsaw uprising

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• Between July and mid-September 1942 the Germans deported at least 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto
• In response several Jewish underground organization created an armed self-defense unit, Jewish Fighting Organization
• The Germans suspended further deportations

Describe the uniqueness of life at Terezin and its relationship to the Red Cross visit to Terezin

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• Everything in Terezin was fake it was a model camp
• The Red Cross came to see if it was humane, and the Nazis made it the camp look fake.
• After the Red Cross left, the Nazis shipped the people to Auschwitz, for the gas chambers.