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Study Questions
February 26th, 2015
1. What was the new racial order proposed by
the Nazis? Pg. 502
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The Aryans, Hitler’s “master race”
2. What were the Nuremberg Laws? Pg. 502
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German laws that deprived Jews of basic rights
3. What were the Jewish ghettos? Pg. 503
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Segregated cities, walled off by the Nazi’s, where
Jews were supposed to live
Study Questions
3/2/15
 What Nazi action marked the final stage of
the “Final Solution?” (Pg 504)
 How did some non-Jews oppose Hitler’s
“Final Solution?” (Pg. 505)
Objectives
1. Explain the course of the persecution of the Jews by
the Nazis. (Kristallnacht, ghettos, Final Solution.)
Define each of these terms?
2. What were the results of the Final Solution?
Review
 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
 U.S. Declares War on Japan
 Japanese Battle Victories
 Battle of Coral Sea ( What did the U.S. Stop, and what
was the new Naval Warfare used?)
 Battle of Midway
 Guadalcanal (What were the Japanese building?)
10:8:5
 Analyze the policy of pursuing racial
purity, especially against the
European Jews, its transformation
into the Final Solution; and the
Holocaust that resulted in the murder
of six million Jewish civilians.
The Holocaust: Ch. 16.3
 Main Idea:
 During the Holocaust Hitler’s Nazis killed six million Jews
and 5 million “non-Aryans”.
 Why it Matters:
 Violence against Jews during the Holocaust leads to the
founding of Israel after WWII.
 Setting the Stage:
 Nazi propose a new racial order.
 Aryans were a “master race”
 Misuse of the word Aryan
 All non-Aryan’s, especially Jews were inferior.
What is Aryan?
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The ideal Aryan…
Blonde hair
Blue eyes
Caucasian (white skin)
Speaks German
European Persecution of Jews
 Occurred throughout
history:
 Roman’s
 Russian’s (Pogrom’s)
 Nazi’s
 German’s blame Jew’s
for:
 Loss of WWI
 Post WWI depression
Why Jews?
 Jews were the minority
 During the depression, many Jews were
successful
 Culture was different
 Racism
Nazi’s take Power
 1935 Nuremberg Laws:
 Jewish people could not…
 … be citizens
 … marry non-Jews
 … hold certain jobs
 People with Jewish
grandparents, who had
converted to Christianity,
were defined as Jews.
Jew’s forced to wear “Star of David”
Nazis Seize Opportunity
 Nov. 1938:
- Jewish youth (Herschel Grynszpan) shot a
German diplomat
- Nazis launched attacks on Jewish communities
Kristallnacht
(Night of Broken Glass)
Storm troopers attack Jewish…
 … homes
 … synagogues
 … businesses
** 100 Jews die
** Violence now
organized by
the state
* Many Jews will
leave Germany
Jew’s flee Germany
 1939
 Many Jews flee to other
countries
 Hitler encourages the
Jews to leave
 Countries begin to close
their doors
 US
 Great Britain
 France
 Hitler will have to find
another solution
Isolating the Jews
 1940- Hitler orders all Jews into Ghettos
 Sealed off with brick, barb wire
 Goal, to starve or die from disease
 Jews continued to resist oppression…
 Theater’s produced plays
 Secret schools formed
 Historians kept records
Jew’s forced into Warsaw (Poland) Ghettos
THE PIANIST FILM NOTES
 Take out a new sheet of paper…
 Title it: THE PIANIST (Film notes)
 Title the first section: GERMANY INVADES
POLAND
 Answer each question in exercise A & B
The Holocaust (Part II)
Hitler’s “Final Solution”
 Calls for genocide
 Holocaust:
 Systematic slaughter of Jews and
other groups judged inferior by
Nazi's
***Goal is to purify the human
race
 Other inferior races/nationalities
•Jews
•Criminals
•Gypsies
•Insane
•Poles
•Disabled
•Russian
•Diseased
THE PIANIST FILM NOTES
 Take out your film notes…
 Title: THE PIANIST (Film notes)
 Title the third section: FROM THE GHETTO
TO THE CAMPS
 Title the fourth section: WLADEK’S ESCAPE
 Answer each question in exercise A, B, & C
Killing Begins
 As Nazi’s move
through Euro toward
Russia
 Killing squads round up
Jews
 Separate men, women,
kids, babies
 Executed in pits that
become mass graves
 Other Jews are sent to:
 Concentration Camps
 Slave Labor Prisons
 Most in Germany and
Poland
Firing Squads
 Jews were rounded up
and either:
- Executed by gun fire
- Taken to Labor Camps
- Taken to Death Camps
Labor Camps
THE PIANIST FILM NOTES
 Take out your film notes…
 Title: THE PIANIST (Film notes)
 Title the fifth section: WLADEK IN HIDING
 Answer each question in exercise A & B
1942 Final Stage
 Extermination
Camps
 Death Camps
 Separate strong and
weak
 Move to huge gas
chambers
 Equipped with
cyanide gas
 Killed 6,000 a day
 Bodies moved to
crematoriums
(ovens)
 Largest is
Auschwitz
 6 Million Jews killed
THE PIANIST FILM NOTES
 Take out your film notes…
 Title: THE PIANIST (Film notes)
 Title the fifth section: THE LIBERATION OF
POLAND
 Answer each question in exercise A & B
Gas Chambers
Door from early gas chamber
Guarded Prisons
Nazi Guards and Staff
Liberating the Camps
Objectives
1. Explain the course of the persecution of the Jews by
the Nazis. (Kristallnacht, ghettos, Final Solution.)
Define each of these terms?
2. What were the results of the Final Solution?
Cause
Blitzkrieg
Dunkirk
Rescue
Atlantic
Charter
Effect