holocaust

propoganda

information, images, messages, or other forms of communication designed to influence how people think, feel, or behave, it can use facts selectively, distort reality, spread lies, or appeal to emotions

who was the head of nazi propaganda

joseph goebbels

censorship

restricting or suppressing information and expression

difference between positive and negative propaganda

positive propaganda presented an idealized picture of Germany and the Nazi party while negative propaganda created enemies by stereotyping and dehumanizing people

stereotyping

applying oversimplified generalizations to a group

dehumanization

portraying people as less than human

volksgemeinschaft

nazi idea of a national community supposedly united by racial belonging

indoctrination

teaching beliefs in a way that discourages questioning

judenrein

german for “free of jews”, a term used for places from which jews had been expelled or removed

racial hygiene

nazi use of false racial and hereditary theories to justify policies against targeted groups

why was propaganda so dangerous

the nazis falsely presented jews as a biological threat to the german population through the propaganda and they promoted the ideas of racial hygiene and supported racial purity

bystander

someone who witnesses, knows about, or has evidence of harm to others but does not directly perpetrate the harm or intervene to help

why did people become bystanders

out of fear of imprisonment or punishment for helping victims, antisemitism because it made people less willing to defend jewish neighbors, and conformity because people followed what their community appeared to accept

main idea of anti jewish laws

the nazi government used laws and regulations to turn antisemitism into government policy, jews were gradually excluded from employment, education, citizenship, economic life, and social relationships

reich citizenship law

jews were deprived of full reich citizenship, they lost political rights, they couldnt hold certain public positions reserved for reich citizens

law for the protection of german blood and german honor

prohibited marriages between jews and people classified as having german or related blood, prohibited sexual relations between those groups, restricted jews from employing german women under age 45 in their households

how did the nazis decide who counted as jewish

the did not only rely on religious belief or how a person identified but by ancestry, particularly through the religious affiliation of grandparents

nuremberg laws

major nazi racial laws enacted in 1935

reich citizenship

citizenship status that jews were stripped of under nazi law

mischling

nazi classification for a person with partial jewish ancestory

aryan

a term the nazis misused to promote a supposedly superior racial group

dispossession

taking away property, assets, or economic rights

racial classification

categorizing people by ancestry according to nazi racial ideology