7.8 Mass Atrocities
The Halocaust
The mass slaughter of European civilians, especially jews, by the nazis during WWII based on racial grounds
Who were the victims of the Holocaust
Jews and other non-aryans (blonde hair and blue eyes)
who were the members of master race
aryans (germanic people)
Homosexuals
Gypsies
Poles,Slavs and Serbs
Political prisioners and political opponents
Resistance Fighters
The physically and mentally handicapped/disabled
blacks
habitual criminals
Why did Hitler believe that jews and other “Subhumans” had to be exterminated
To protect racial purity
Why jews?
Causes of world problems- religious problems, black plague, tainting of values, descruction of social order
still had money after depression
cause of germanys defeat of WWI
Downfall of society was due to the mixing of aryans and non aryans
must purify the race by destroying inferiors
The Beginning
-Anti-Semitism- hatred of jews
blames jews for all the problems in germany
- Nuremberg Laws- jews deprived of citzenship, jobs, property, schooling
had to wear yellow badge