The Nuremburg Laws
- 1933-39
- Anti-Jewish laws
- Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David
- This turned into forcing Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans
- Finally loss of citizenship
Kristallnacht
- 9 November 1938
- Kristall (glass)
- Nacht (night)
- Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned
- Many Jews imprisoned
- State sanctioned event
Propaganda, Lebensraum and Mass Rallies
- Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party
- Effected all aspects of German life
- Promoted:
- •Aryan Race
- Anti-Semitism
- Anti-Communism
- Lebensraum (living space in the east)
- Organized mass rallies for army and citizens
- Nuremburg night rallies the most famous
The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
- Hitler’s original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
- Aryan (Nordic race) thought to be superior beings
- Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour
- July 1941 final solution = extermination of the Jewish race a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S.
- Shooting and burying them was not fast enough
- Gas chambers became the popular
- Made famous places such as Auschwitz