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The Jews and Minorities
The Jews and Minorities
minorities in Nazi
Germany
1933-39
What do you need to know?
1. The persecution of minorities:
Nazi racial ideas and policies
the treatment of minorities: gypsies, homosexuals and those with disabilities
Many doctors and scientists taught that some races were superior to
others.
Using the
information on the
treatment of
minorities,
complete the table.
Find on WHS
Campus.
2. Nazi persecution of
the Jewish community
Hitler publically hated
“To read the pages (of Hitler’s Mein Kampf) is to the Jews from the 1920s!
enter a world of the insane, a world populated by
hideous and distorted shadows. The Jew is no longer
a human being, he has become a mythical figure, a
grimacing leering devil invested with infernal
powers, the incarnation of evil.”
See video
Hitler publically blamed the Jews for:
Defeat in 1918 and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles. Hitler had fought in
WW1 and was shocked when the war ended in German defeat
Economic problems of Weimar as a result of the Treaty of Versailles and
the greed of the Jews who he felt took money away from the Germans.
The fact that Jews represented less than 1% of the population but there
were over represented professionally. 10,000 Jewish doctors and 16% of
lawyers and 17% of bankers were Jewish led to resentment at them as a
community
Weakening of the Aryan race
Degeneration of German art, philosophy and entertainment
He believed that Jewish businessmen were plotting to take over the world
He believed that Communism was Jewish in its origins and the two were
closely linked and working together.
Persecution of Jews, 1933-
1939
Persecution of Jews began once Hitler
came to power and increasingly
escalated.
Complete the
timeline
summarising the
persecution of the
Jews 1933-39.
OR THE ONE ON
CAMPUS
March 1933 – The Enabling Act
Jews were sacked from the
Civil Service and banned from
joining the army.
Jews were excluded from
Schools, Universities,
broadcasting and newspapers
Some large firms such as
Krupps steelworks followed
suit and sacked Jews.
April 1933 –
There was a one day
boycott of Jewish
businesses which
prevented Jews from
making money on
that day.
November 1938 –
Kristallnacht – The night
of the broken glass.
Example:
The scientist Albert Einstein fled Germany.
Impact continued.
Nazi policies and Source A: Account from the Diary of Ann Frank, a Dutch Jewish girl.
actions impacted
every facet of Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees:
Jews lives in
Germany by Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in
1939. their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to use trams; Jews were forbidden
Over 400 to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping
separate between 3 and 5pm; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets
regulations
shaped life for between 8pm and 6am; Jews were forbidden to go to theatres, cinemas,
German Jews. use swimming pools, tennis courts, hockey fields or an athletic field;
Jews could not sit in their garden or someone else’s after 8pm; Jews
were forbidden to visit Christians in their home.
Task 4: GCSE POD
Jews and minorities Worksheet – see campus.
Jewish Resistance
The Jews did not simply go ‘as sheep to
slaughter’.
Task 5:
1. Armed resistance See
2. Emigration and hiding resistance
3. Non-violent resistance worksheet
.
4. Cooperation
5. Personal heroism and survival
The
effectivene
ss of Nazi
actions
and
policies by
1939…
The Jewish
community’s role in
German life was
successfully strangled Task 6:
by the economic, Please read the table above. This table is not complete.
political and social Create this table in your notebook and add to it from
policies introduced by your own knowledge of the topic.
the Nazis.