Y9 History-Holocaust

Key themes:

  • Anti-Semitism: Prejudice against Jewish People

  • Propaganda: Fake news usually used to deceive people and make believe in something

  • Inferiority:The belief that some people are less than or not the same as others

  • Superiority: The belief that some people are more important than others

  • Persecution: When individuals or groups are subjected to hostility and ill-treatment, often based on their identity or beliefs.

  • Discrimination: Treating people in an unfair way due to their race,religion or nationality

Key People:

  • Adolf Hitler: Leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor of Germany, whose policies led to the systematic persecution and genocide of millions during the Holocaust.

  • Heinrich Himmer: Leader of the SS

  • Rudolf Hoess: Commandant at Auschwitz

Key events:

Kristallnacht:A violent pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938, which resulted in widespread destruction of Jewish property and the arrest of thousands of Jewish men.

Nuremberg Laws: A set of discriminatory laws enacted in Nazi Germany in 1935 that stripped Jews of their citizenship and civil rights, defining who was considered Jewish based on ancestry.

Key Places:

Auschwitz: A notorious concentration and extermination camp located in occupied Poland, where over a million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.

Kristallnacht:

Kristallnacht or the night of broken glass was an event in Germany,Austria and Czechoslovakia it was a mob or pogrom where people were violently attacked, Jewish shops were vandalized, and synagogues were set on fire, marking a significant escalation in the Nazi regime's anti-Semitic policies.

The Nuremberg Laws:

The Nuremberg laws were rules enforced in Nazi germany between the year of 1935 and 1938 these consisted of rules targeted at jewish people preventing them from living a normal life and to influence the general public of germany that jews were inhuman and should be viewed as inferior,some examples of these are:

  • Jews are banned from sports clubs

  • Jewish lawyers, judges and teachers are sacked

  • “Race studies” are introduced in school

  • All Jewish children are expelled from school

  • Jewish males must change their name to israel and females Sara

  • Jewish people are discounted as german citizens and have to own a different parcel