Transcript Not responding is a response- we are equally responsible for what

Not responding is a responsewe are equally responsible
for what we don't do.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Who is responsible?
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A person who complied with the law excluding
Jews from economic and social life
A person who served as a concentration camp
guard
A worker in a plant making Zyklon B gas
A teacher who taught Nazi propaganda
The American government, which limited
emigration of Jews into the U.S. in the 1930’s
Timeline of Anti-Jewish
Legislation
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1920: 25 Point Program written by
Nazi party publicly declares party
intention to segregate Jews from
"Aryan" society and to repeal Jews'
political, legal, and civil rights
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1933 - 1939: more than 400
regulations restrict the lives of
Jews in Germany- not all were
national laws, regional and
community laws are also enacted
Examples of Anti-Jewish Laws: 1933-1939
1933March 31 Decree of the Berlin city commissioner for health suspends
Jewish doctors from the city’s charity services.
April 7 Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service
removes Jews from government service.
April 7 Law on the Admission to the Legal Profession forbids the admission
of Jews to the bar.
April 25 Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limits the
number of Jewish students in public schools.
July 14 De-Naturalization Law revokes the citizenship of naturalized Jews
and undesirables.
October 4 Law on Editors bans Jews from editorial posts.
1935 May 21 Army law expels Jewish officers from the army.
September 15 Nazi leaders announce the Nuremberg Laws.
1936 October 15 Reich Ministry of Education bans Jewish teachers from public
schools.
1937 April 9 The Mayor of Berlin orders public schools not to admit Jewish children until
further notice.
1938 January 5 Law on the Alteration of Family and Personal Names forbids Jews from
changing their names.
October 3 Decree on the Confiscation of Jewish Property regulates the transfer of
assets from Jews to non-Jewish Germans.
October 5 The Reich Interior Ministry invalidates all German passports held by
Jews. Jews must surrender their old passports, which will become valid only after
the letter J had been stamped on them.
November 12 Decree on the Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life closes
all Jewish-owned businesses.
November 15 Reich Ministry of Education expels all Jewish children from public
schools.
November 28 Reich Ministry of Interior restricts the freedom of movement of Jews.
1939 February 21 Decree Concerning the Surrender of Precious Metals and Stones in
Jewish Ownership.
A person who complied with the law excluding
Jews from economic and social life
Imagine you were a non-Jewish
citizen in Germany from
1933-1939- how long would it
take you to figure out what
the ultimate goal of the Nazis
was?
If restrictions on Jews were
placed at all levels of
government- community,
regional and federal- was
there ever a point where
German citizens COULD
HAVE stopped the Nazi
movement?
A person who served as a
concentration camp guard
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Each day boxcars arrived with
thousands of Jews, political
dissidents, etc
Guards then separated the
people into two groups - those
who could work, and those to
be killed
Oversaw forced labor
Oversaw medical experiments
Oversaw gas chambers
Executive orders to carry out
murder
YouTube - Remembering
the Horrors of Auschwitz
A worker in a plant making Zyklon
B gas
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Gas was originally used to
fumigate for vermin in army
barracks, ships, factories etc
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By 1941, the two German firms,
Tesch supplied two tons a month,
and Degesch three quarters of a
ton.
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After the war, prosecutors found
paperwork and letters confirming
factory generals and firm owners
offer to sell gas crystals for
gassing of Jews, but also advising
how to properly ventilate and heat
the equipment.
Tesch
sold enough Zyklon
B from 1941 to the end of
the war to kill 2 million
people
A teacher who taught Nazi
propaganda
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Sept. 1933: racial instruction is mandatory in
all subjects - Jews no longer can be
teachers
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By 1936: 97% of teachers (over 300,000
people) in Germany are members of
National Socialist (Nazi) Teacher’s League attend conferences on instructing Nazi
ideology and world view
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Children were taught to read from antiSemitic storybooks
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1938: Racial instruction must begin at age
6, all students leaving school must
understand “blood purity”
United States
Holocaust Memorial
Museum: Propaganda
Teachers joined the
Nazi party in greater
number than ANY
OTHER PROFESSION
in Germany during the
1930’s.
The American government, which limited
emigration of Jews into the U.S. in the
1930’s
Requirements to Immigrate to U.S. in 1930's
What message might this have sent to the Nazi
power?
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not
speak out -- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to
speak for me.
- MARTIN NIEMOLER, Protestant pastor,
critic of Hitler, spent 7 years in concentration
camp