Transcript Nazis and Anti

 Holocaust
was predicated (based on) on a
long history of anti-Semitism in Germany.
 Hitler was able to encourage and exploit
the existing anti-Semitism in Germany
(and throughout Europe).
 Hitler
was successful in making the Jews
scapegoats for the ills plaguing Germany
due to the long history of anti-Semitism.
 Hitler
utilized misapplied scientific
theories to justify his severe antiSemitism.
 For example, Hitler and his collaborators
saw Jews as an inferior race of people
that needed to be completely destroyed.
 This
concept is totally incorrect!
 Judaism is a religion
 Many Germans believed it because Nazi
propaganda
• perpetuated and strengthened feelings of anti-
Semitism.
 Children
under the Third Reich were taught
at an early age in schools to hate all Jews;
also, the Nazi Youth program indoctrinated
the young into Nazi goals and beliefs.
An AntiJewish
book
written for
children in
Nazi
Germany
 “Just
as it is often
hard to tell a
toadstool from an
edible mushroom, so
too it is often very
hard to recognize
the Jew as a swindler
and criminal...”
 How To Tell
A Jew:
“The Jewish nose
is bent. It looks
like the number
six...”
 The
Jew cries: “We
don’t care about
Germany... The
main thing is that
things go well for
us...”
 “He
who fights
the Jews battles
the Devil.”
 -Julius Streicher
(A Nazi Speaker)
 The
pages before were from a book
written for children in Nazi Germany.
 Nazi’s worked hard to brainwash the
children to think anti-jewish without
thinking about it.
 THAT IS WRONG!
 Even
though we must study and learn
about anti-Semitic beliefs as a tragic part
of history, such beliefs are completely
false, and are based on hate, not on truth.
 All
of Europe had a long history of hating
the Jewish people
• Due to wrong views about the Jewish religion.
 The
Nazi were looking for a SCAPEGOAT
for what went wrong in Germany at the
end of World War I
 Anti-Semetism is WRONG AT ALL TIMES