History-Holocaust

-The holocaust was 1933-45

Jewish life before the Holocaust

• The pyramid of hatred is a graphic that shows how genocide gets accepted. If lower levels are continued to be accepted, the worse things starts to get accepted.

• Genocide occurs in many forms but it is defined as; the systematic and deliberate extermination or discrimination of a large group of people at the highest level.

The Final Solution

• The ‘Jewish Question’ was the belief that the existence of Jews in Germany threatened the state and needed to be ‘resolved’.

• The Nazi’s aim before 1939 was to promote migration of Jews through horrific conditions and unjust societal beliefs and antisemitic laws.

• However, following the invasion of Poland, Austria, France and Czechoslovakia, they needed a faster more efficient way to terminate the Jews as numbers grew exponentially.

• Facing a greater Jewish population across its newly conquered territories, Nazi Germany’s aims and methods of persecution became more extreme. 

• After 1939, persecution developed to focus on forced deportations, the creation of ghettos and the Nazis’ eventual commitment to kill all Jews

• After the start of WW2, the Nazis began using ghettos as part of their attempts to 'resolve' the 'Jewish Question'.

  Ghettoisation (the creation and use of ghettos) became a more common feature of the Nazis' and their collaborators persecution of Jews as the war developed.