Download First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out-

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out-because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Stereotype: A simplistic, firmly held belief, often
negative, about individual characteristics
generalized to all people within that group.
Propaganda: The deliberate spreading of ideas or
information, true or untrue, with the purpose of
manipulating public opinion to gain support for
one’s cause, or discourage support for another
Racism: a set of beliefs based on perceived “racial”
superiority and inferiority; a system of domination
that is played out in everyday interactions, and the
unequal distribution of privilege, resources and
power.
Anti-Semitism: Hostility toward Jews as an ethnic or
religious group, often accompanied by social,
economic, and political discrimination.
The Holocaust
Genocide - the destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or
religious group)
Victims: (targeted groups) - Jews, gypsies, other minorities,
handicapped, homosexuals, educated, Russians, Polish,
communists, socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses
Perpetrators:
Nazis (political party) led by Hitler
The S.S. (secret police) and Gestapo (S.S. officials)
Collaborators:
Concurrent majority -those who agreed
Bystanders – those that chose to do nothing to prevent it
A way for Hitler to gain power
- to create a “better Germany”
- for the world to be more pure
- to create a “super race
Gave the Germans someone to blame for their predicament and
united them in a common cause – a common enemy
People went along with it…. Collaborated on racial hate
Many people didn’t know what was going on
Before the war began, boycotts, anti-Jewish laws, and
persecution were meant to drive Jews out of Germany.
After Germany invaded Poland, Polish and Western European
Jews were deported to ghettos.
Once Germany invaded the Soviet Union, German forces
began to kill entire Jewish communities in an effort to find a
“final solution of the Jewish question.”
Hitler’s “Final Solution” to the “Jewish Problem was to murder
every Jew under German rule (essentially in Europe).
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelineholocaust.htm
Did the Jews in Europe realize what was going to happen to them?
*Since the Nazi’s did not publicize the “Final Solution” nor speak about
it, and every attempt to fool the victims was made to minimize
resistance, the European Jews were not aware of the Final Solution.
*The idea that human beings--let alone the civilized Germans-- could
build camps with special apparatus for mass murder seemed
unbelievable in those days.
How many died?
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-statistics.htm
Why didn’t they fight back?
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/R1942Sum.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/grobres.html
How many were saved by others?
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/index.asp