Skeleton Notes: Chapter 13, Section 3 ‘The Holocaust’ The Nuremberg laws

 During WW II the Nazis killed millions of people they considered inferior including more than __ million Jews.  The Hebrew term for the holocaust is “______” which means catastrophe.  Nazis targeted political opponents, Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs, and the ______.  After Nazis took control of Germany, they passed the ______Laws which:  Took ______away from Jews  Prohibited Jews from owning land  Banned marriage between Jews and Germans  Barred Jews from ______ Many Jews were forced to live in ______

Jewish Refugees

 The ______, Germany’s secret police, began rounding up thousands of Jews and ordered them to leave the country.  Many tried to leave Germany, but many countries had strict immigration laws and would not take very many at a time.  Germany also allowed Jews to take no more than $___ with them if they left the country.  It was not enough to cover the cost of starting a new life.

Kristallnacht

 November 7th, 1938 a Jewish refugee shot and killed a German diplomat in Paris.

o The man wanted revenge for persecution against his and other Jewish families by the Nazis.

 Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph ______, used the incident to incite public riots against Jews.

 The night of violence against Jews that erupted in Germany and Austria became known as ______or ‘night of broken glass’.

The Final Solution

 In 1942, Nazi leaders met at the ______Conference to determine the “final solution of the Jewish question.”  They agreed to round up Jews in all Nazi occupied territories and send them to concentration camps to provide ______for as long as they remained alive.  Those who could not provide slave labor would be sent to extermination camps to be executed in ______chambers.