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Erin Moffett
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Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or
racial group
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Reich Citizenship Law
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Anyone who enjoys the protection of the Reich is considered to be a subject of it and is therefore obligated
to the Reich, the nationality is determined by the Reich and state nationality laws.
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citizenship would be determined by
 must be of German blood or Germanic origin and must prove by his/her conduct that they are suited
to be a loyal German citizen.
 conferred with an official certificate of Reich citizenship
 Only Reich citizens may receive full political rights
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor
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motivated by the Nazi’s desire to ensure the existence of a “pure” German nation for eternity.
 “German-related blood” were not allowed to marry Jews or have sexual relations with them. Marriages
that had occurred prior to the passage of this law would remain in effect; however, German citizens
were encouraged to divorce their existing Jewish partners.
 Jews were not permitted to employ house servants of German blood who were under the age of 45.
 Jews were forbidden to display the flag of the Third Reich or the traditional German flag.
November 14 Decree
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The decree specified exactly who would be considered Jewish from that point forward.
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Jews were placed into one of three categories:
 Full Jews – those who practiced Judaism or those who had at least 3 Jewish grandparents, regardless of
religion practice.
 First Class Mischlinge (half Jewish) – those who had 2 Jewish grandparents, did not practice Judaism,
and did not have a Jewish spouse.
 Second Class Mischlinge (one-fourth Jewish) – those who had 1 Jewish grandparent and did not
practice Judaism.
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Ghettos were city districts (often enclosed) in which the Germans
concentrated Jewish population and forced them to live under miserable
conditions.
Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the nonJewish population and from other Jewish communities.
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refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people.
implemented in stages
 Implementations of Ghettos
 Systematic Deportations
 Mass Murder
"Final Solution" consisted of gassings, shootings, random acts of terror,
disease, and starvation that accounted for the deaths of about six million
Jews -- two-thirds of European Jewry
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The direct reason for the establishment of Auschwitz in 1940 was due
to arrests of Poles increasing beyond the capacity of existing "local"
prisons.
In 1942, it also became the largest of the death camps
included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated
prisoners at forced labor
It is estimated that camp authorities murdered 1.1 million in
Auschwitz alone.
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The Nazi persecution of persons with disabilities in Germany was one
component of radical public health policies aimed at excluding
hereditarily “unfit” Germans from the national community.
The Germans forced sterilization which eventually escalated to mass
murder.
The Euthanasia Program (“justification” for murdering persons with
disabilities), was used as a practice round for Nazi Germany’s Final
Solution.
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http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?
ModuleId=10005059
http://en.auschwitz.org/m/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/
Holocaust/disabled.html