how did anti semitism and the holocaust effect europe

Anti semitism definition/intro to essay

• anti semitism is a term used to describe hatred and discrimation against the jews.

• Anti semitism had for centuries been a feature of european society, but took on its most violent and evil form with the mass extermination of the jews during world war two

• effects of nazi anti semitism devastated the jewish community in europe

anti semitism example b4 the nazis (in america)

• wall street crash in 1929 blamed on jews

anti jewish discrimination in nazi germany before the war

• pre 1939

  • aprill 1933 - boycott of jewish shops, outsted from civil service and teaching quota service

  • 1935 nuremberg laws introduced (forbade marriage between jews and aryans, star of david)

  • 1938 kristallnacht

• up to outbreak of war, nazis did all it could to encourage jews to emigrate, however many were unable to leave due to a lack of money and not being able to pay the tax levied on emigrants.

structure of essay

• intro

• rise of anti semitism (mein kamf, implemented laws (say what laws)

• nuremberg laws

• kristalnacht - caused mass emigration, refugee crisis, many countries refused to take jews

• ghettos

• final solution

• war ended (jews emigrated out of europe, destruction of jewish life changed society forever, millions wipe out

• concl (holocaust remains one of most devestating events in history, warning of how prej and hatred can destroy nearly an entire community)

Hitlers own views on jews and how they effected

• hitlers hatred of jews was major force behind nazi party growth

• jews blamed for everything in interwar period (eg wall street crash ‘29)

• mein kamf - blamed jews for all ww1 issues, despite them making up less than one percent of population

• time in vienne university shaped views, as anti semitism widespread there

• when nazis in ccontrol, baished jews from public life, business and education

how and when did anti jewish discrimination become official policy

• from 1933

• became policy

• jewish shops boycotted, removed from civil service, professional jobs, quotas in eudcation

• 1935 - nuremburg laws forbade marriage, star of david

• laws excluded jews from german society and the rest of europe

When and why did hitler take a break from anti semitsism

• 1936

• berline olympics

turning point in jewish hte in germany (night of broekn glass)

kristalnacht // night of broken glass 1938

killing of german ambassador in paris caused organized attacks and violence against jews, more than 20,000 jews were imprisoned or left the country

anti semitism in germany in war years

• entered new and more radical phase

• no plan for dealing w jews in poland, and western europe

• propety seized, banned from office and forced to live in ghettos, largest in poland (nearly half a million)

  • anyone attempting to leave shot on the spot

  • overcrowding and poor conditions led to death of thousands (nearly 100k in warsaw alone)

• mobile ss units systmatically killed thousands of jews as germans took the soviet union, birth of the term genocide.

wansee conference 

• 1942, heydrich chaired a conference in wannsee where the final solution was adopted, deportation of the jews to the east to be worked to death or exterminated

• eichmann was responsible to organize 

• millions sent to camps like aushwitz, dachau

war ended, how were holocaust effects visable across europe

• 6 million jews murdered, millions displaced

• many surviving jews emigrated to palestine

• birth of zionism

concl

• reshaped europe

• nazi policies turned prexisting hatred into law, violence and genoicde

• left behind guilt and much loss

• remains one of most devestating events in european history

• warns us of how prejudice can destroy an entire civilsation