Holocaust meaning.

Holocaust meaning:

Greek: the word means complete destruction by fire

The holocaust is a an example / a form of genocide

Genocide is a massive killing of certain type of people in any way.

Genocide was a Word created after world war to explain these.

Victims:

Gypsies (wonders that live outside of the city) kind of nomadic

Disabled

Communists

Journalists

Jehovah’s witnesses

Anyone else who Hitler disliked

The holocaust begins:

Hitler knowingly tapped into a hateful for Jews had deep roots in European history

Jews as scapegoats for

• Personal failures
• Germanys defeat in WWI

Targeting Jews government policy

a. 1934 Nuremberg laws made it illegal to marry Jews

People already blamed the Jews for the loss of World War 1

The Jews obviously caused this loss

Hitler starts targeting the Jews when he passes the number laws

A flood of refugees: how countries do not welcome Jews because the country economy does doesn’t handle those refugees

Too many refugees.  Jews have no other option rather than stay in Germany

Kristallnacht: confiscate any firearms owned by Jews. This would prevent Jews to have something to fight with  

1. First Hitler takes Jews financial freedom (take away Jews jobs, Jews money, Jews income) takes away the economic freedom their censorship.
2. Then they take away anything that the Jews could act out against the German people KRISTALLNACHT
3. Isolating the Jews. Hitler ordered all Jews to be moved to designed cities called Ghettos. Very poor condition of living for the Jews in a small city with Nazi guards.  He also marked them (ALL JEWS HAD TO USE THE YELLOW STAR OF DAVID)

1. Take away Jews financial freedom
2. Kristallnacht → no military supplies

Concentration camps:

• Work camps: prisoners were given uniforms, marked with numbers in their arms, identity and clothes were taken away
• Death camps: “final solution” where Jews were taken after being on a work camp to be burned.

Jews were transported from the ghettos to the concentration camps

Most of the main concentration camps are located in Poland

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