“The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke

1. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke

2. The Holocaustand Hitler’s war on the Jews

3. WHAT IS ANTI-SEMITISM? • HATRED OF JEWSand it existed long before Hitler came to power • IT EXISTED IN EUROPE 1000 YEARS BEFORE HITLER. • IT STILL EXISTS TODAY!

4. Jews are Semitic people who came out of the Middle East .Through a history of expulsion and migration they settled in various countries throughout the world early on. Even so Jews were always viewed as outsiders in the countries they settled in even though their ancestors lived in each place for hundreds or thousands of years.

5. ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPEPRIOR TO NAZI GERMANY • RELIGIOUS(ACCUSED OF DEICIDE BY CHURCH) IN 1965 IN VATICAN ii THE CHURCH REJECTS JEWISH RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING JESUS • SOCIAL LIFE CENTERED AROUND CHURCH. • JEWS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO OWN LAND. • JEWS WERE FORCED TO LIVE IN RESTRICTED • AREAS (GHETTOES). (1300-1800) Whim of ruler. • ECONOMIC ( ALLOWED ONLY TO DO CERTAIN JOBS CHURCH • FOUND AS DISTASTEFUL…BANKING, MONEY • LENDING ,TAX COLLECTING…….) • RACIALSOCIAL DARWINISM LEAD TO NEW IDEAS OF INFERIOR AND SUPERIOR PEOPLES. JEWS WERE CONSIDERED AN “ALIEN RACE”

7. “Make the lie big,make it simple, Keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” Adolf Hitler German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi Party, 1889-1945

8. THE BIG LIE Hitler knew the POWER of the BIG LIE. Big lies about Jews existed throughout history: BLOOD LIBEL: Jews killed Christian children and used their Blood to make Matzah (Bread without yeast) Middle Ages Jews were responsible for the BLACK PLAGUE (Bubonic) The idea that Jews were poisoning the well water. (scapegoating) Protocols of the Elders of Zion An Anti-semitic forgery written by the Czar’s secret police that said Jews wereplanning to destroy Christianity, take over governments and control the world (Used even today)

9. THE LIES WERE BELIEVED • OVER 200 JEWISH COMMUNITIES DISAPPEARED BETWEEN 1348-51 BECAUSE JEWS WERE BLAMED FOR THE SPREAD OF THE BLACK PLAGUE OR FOR POISONING WELLS.

10. THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION • THIS WAS A BOOK WRITTEN BY THE CZAR’S SECRET POLICE WHICH WAS A LIE ABOUT THE JEWS. It was passed off as a plan by the JEWS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

11. BLOOD LIBEL • JEWS WERE SENSELESSLY BLAMED FOR CHILDREN KIDNAPPINGS AND MURDERS. LIES WERE SPREAD THAT JEWS KILLED CHILDREN AND USED THEIR BLOOD TO MAKE MATZAH. • JEWS WERE BLAMED FOR DISEASE BECAUSE PEOPLE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PLAGUE CAME FROM.

12. Throughout History • Thousands of Jews were murdered • Forced to convert • Persecuted (Crusades) • Expelled over and over again from countries they called home. • Scapegoated • Pogroms…destruction of Jewish towns sanctioned by the government .

13. HITLER • Anti Semitism was well engrained in European beliefs • before Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. It was not a far stretch to • accept many of the ideas that Hitler expounded. • Coupled with economic depression the “Jewish outsider” • was blamed for all that had gone wrong In Germany: • Hitler blamed Jew for: • Depression and inflation • Losing WWI (Jews betrayed Germany) • Communism (Socialism, Bolsheviks…all blamed on Jews) • Versailles Treaty (Punishment of Germany and war reparations)

14. NAZI PROPAGANDAagainst the Jews • Taught in schools • Children’s literature • Hitler Youth Movement • Government Policy • Newspapers (Der Stuermer) • Speechs and Rallies Leni Riefenstahl

15. The "Dagger-stab-in-the-back Legend": Austrian right-wing caricature of a Jew stabbing the German Army in the back with a dagger. The capitulation was blamed upon the unpatriotic populace, the Socialists, Bolsheviks, the Weimar Republic, and especially the Jews. (1919)

16. Using a documentary style, the Nazi propaganda film, The Eternal Jew, paints Jews as greedy, dirty, corrupted people, who are not human and descended from rats It is produced with false historical explanations, pseudo scientific explanations and claims that Jews breed disease and want to take over the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfnzDhZzI6s (from rats to 4:46)

18. From a children’s book Translated “Trust no fox in The green meadow and no Jew on his oath. (Trau Keinem)

20. The Poison Mushroom • Background: This story comes from Der Giftpilz, an anti-Semitic children’s book published by Julius Streicher, the publisher of Der Stürmer. He was executed as a war criminal in 1946. This summary and partial translation is taken from a 1938 publication issued by the “Friends of Europe” in London, an organization to which I have not been able to find a successor to request permission to reprint. • The Poisonous Mushroom • A mother and her young boy are gathering mushrooms in the German forest. The boy finds some poisonous ones. The mother explains that there are good mushrooms and poisonous ones, and, as they go home, says: • “Look, Franz, human beings in this world are like the mushrooms in the forest. There are good mushrooms and there are good people. There are poisonous, bad mushrooms and there are bad people. And we have to be on our guard against bad people just as we have to be on guard against poisonous mushrooms. Do you understand that?” • “Yes, mother,” Franz replies. “I understand that in dealing with bad people trouble may arise, just as when one eats a poisonous mushroom. One may even die!” • “And do you know, too, who these bad men are, these poisonous mushrooms of mankind?” the mother continued. • Franz slaps his chest in pride: “Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews! Our teacher has often told us about them.” • The mother praises her boy for his intelligence, and goes on to explain the different kinds of “poisonous” Jews: the Jewish pedlar, the Jewish cattle-dealer, the Kosher butcher, the Jewish doctor, the baptised Jew, and so on. • “However they disguise themselves, or however friendly they try to be, affirming a thousand times their good intentions to us, one must not believe them. Jews they are and Jews they remain. For our Volk they are poison.” • “Like the poisonous mushroom!” says Franz. • “Yes, my child! Just as a single poisonous mushrooms can kill a whole family, so a solitary Jew can destroy a whole village, a whole city, even an entire Volk.” • Franz has understood. • “Tell me, mother, do all non-Jews know that the Jew is as dangerous as a poisonous mushroom?” • Mother shakes her head. • “Unfortunately not, my child. There are millions of non-Jews who do not yet know the Jews. So we have to enlighten people and warn them against the Jews. Our young people, too, must be warned. Our boys and girls must learn to know the Jew. They must learn that the Jew is the most dangerous poison-mushroom in existence. Just as poisonous mushrooms spring up everywhere, so the Jew is found in every country in the world. Just as poisonous mushrooms often lead to the most dreadful calamity, so the Jew is the cause of misery and distress, illness and death.” • The author then concludes this story by pointing the moral: • German youth must learn to recognise the Jewish poison-mushroom. They must learn what a danger the Jew is for the German Volk and for the whole world. They must learn that the Jewish problem involves the destiny of us all. • “The following tales tell the truth about the Jewish poison-mushroom. They show the many shapes the Jew assumes. They show the depravity and baseness of the Jewish race. They show the Jew for what he really is: • The Devil in human form.

21. Hitler Youth Movenment

22. WHO WAS A JEW? • CONCEPT OF JEWISH BLOOD • ONE JEWISH GRANDPARENT (EVEN IF RAISEDA CHRISTAIN) MADE YOU A JEW. • ASSOCIATING WITH JEWS WOULD GET YOU SENT TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP OR MURDERED. • CONVERSION DID NOT MATTER.

23. WHO WAS TARGETED DURING THE HOLOCAUST? • CATHOLICS • GYPSIES • COMMUNISTS • PEOPLE WITH DISABILITES • HOMOSEXUALS • JEWS…..WERE THE ONLY ONES TARGETS FOR TOTAL DESTRUCTION.. IN OTHER WORDS GENOCIDE

24. FACTS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST • 10 MILLION MURDERED…. 6 MILLION WERE JEWS…2/3RDS OF ALL EUROPEAN JEWRY WERE KILLED BY: • DISEASE • WORK • STARVATION • MURDER

25. WAR AGAINST THE JEWSA SYSTEMATIC PROCESS YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LIVE AMONGST US AS JEWS. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LIVE AMONGST US. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LIVE.

26. EUPHEMISMS • A word or phrase used in place of a term that might be considered too direct, harsh, unpleasant or offensive. All the terms on this page mean to murder) • LiquidationDestruction or murder • Special Treatmentmurder • Move EastSend to concentration camps

27. CONTINUED • SelectionA decision who will live and who will die. * Aktion Rounding up Jews to murder them. THE FINAL SOLUTIONGENICIDE

28. HOW IS THE HOLOCAUST DIFFERENT FROM OTHER GENOCIDES? • ORGANIZED,PLANNED AND SYSTEMATIC • 1942 NAZI LEADERS HELD A MEETING TO DISCUSS “THE JEWISH PROBLEM” • AT THE MEETING CALLED THE WANNASEE CONFERENCETHE FINAL SOLUTION WAS AGREED UPON.

29. THE FINAL SOLUTION WANNSEE CONFERENCE held on January 20, 1942 discussed the Final Solution. Reinhard Heydrich was the chief architect of the plan. Prior to 1941 Jews, if they had the means and a place to go, could leave Germany territory. Now immigration was prohibited.

30. WHAT WAS THE FINAL SOLUTION? • THE SYSTEMATIC MURDER OF THE JEWS……..BUT • EVEN BEFORE THE FINAL SOLUTION JEWS WERE BEING MURDERED IN THE USSR BY GERMAN MOBIL KILLING UNITS CALLED EINSATZGRUPPEN MADE UP OF BANDS OF SS. • LATER ON THE NAZIS EXPERIEMENTED WITH MORE EFFICIENT AND QUICKER WAYS TO MURDER LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE.

31. WHAT DID THE EINSATZGRUPPEN DO? • KILLED 1.4 MILLION RUSSIAN JEWS • FORCED WHOLE VILLAGES TO DIG LARGE PITS THAN EXECUTED AND BURIED THE PEOPLE IN THE PIT AS A MASS GRAVE.

32. HIDE • HUMILIATION (Nuremberg Laws) • Jews were eventually stripped of their German citizenship. Jews were prohibited to: • Go to school - Be teachers • Be police officers - Practice law • Be in politics - Own bicycles • Own businesses - Own radios • Fly the German flag - Associate with - Go to public parks non-Jews

33. CONTINUED - Publically beaten - Walk in the street - Tip hat to Aryans - Wash the street - Wear a special armband or patch publically identifying a Jew - Jewish patients evicted from hospitals - Identification papers marked with a J (for Juden) - Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass…a pogrom) (This is the short list)

35. KRISTALLNACHT November 10,1938 Night of Broken Glass

36. Kristallnacht was a government endorsed attack on the Jews of Germany. Jewish communities, businesses, and Synagogues were attacked Burned and looted. Many Jews were sent to concentration camps

39. HIDE • ISOLATION: • Jews were forced to leave the homes. They could only take what they could carry. (20 lbs) • Their property was seized and re-sold to Non-Jews (Aryanization) • Jews were forced to live in over-crowed areas which were walled and sealed and of which Jews were not allowed to leave. (Ghettoes) • In the ghettoes, people died from disease and starvation…This was all part of the plan.

41. Because the Nazis wanted to keep Chlodna Street (an important thoroughfare) open, the ghetto was divided into two; originally joined by a street-crossing, the two parts of the ghetto were later connected by a wooden bridge. WARSAW GHETTO 400,000 Jews in an area 3.5 mile in area.

45. A Resident of the Lodz Ghetto (1942) is abused, ridiculed and humiliated as was part of everyday life for the Jewish inhabitants of Lodz and other ghettos and camps.

46. HIDE • Deportation The ghettoes were destroyed (liquidated) and the people in them were put in cattle cars on trains and sent to concentration camps. Trains were over-crowed with no sanitation faculties. The typical length of time in a train car was 3 days. The weak and sick usually died enrooted.