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Part One of Holocaust
Unit
Germany Government after WWI
• Monarch leader Kaiser Wilhelm II flees
Germany to the Netherlands abdicating his
throne.
• Allies want Wilhelm punished,
Netherlands won’t give him up.
• As of January 1920 Germany is without a
leader. The Allies help set up an interim
government.
Germany 1933-1939
• January 30, 1933 – Adolf Hitler appointed
Chancellor of Germany
Germany 1933-1939
• February 28, 1933 – German government
takes away freedom of speech, assembly,
press, and privacy (arresting anyone who
spoke out against the Nazis)
• March 22, 1933 – first concentration camp
opens at Dachau, Germany
Dachau
•Dachau was built because prisons were
overflowing
•Nazis didn’t have money to built more prisons,
so they built work camps
•SS troops used Dachau to train for work in the
death camps
When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
Dachau
Dachau
Dachau
Dachau
Germany 1933-1939
• March 23, 1933-Hitler becomes dictator of
Germany
• April 1, 1933 – Nationwide boycott of Jewishowned businesses in Germany
Germany 1933-1939
• May 10, 1933 – Jewish books burned
• July 14, 1933 – Laws passed in
Germany permitting the forced
sterilization of Gypsies, the mentally
and physically disabled, and AfricanGermans
Germany 1933-1939
• March 17, 1935 – Nazi’s invades the
Rhineland
• April 1935 – Jehovah’s Witnesses are
arrested
Germany 1933-1939
• September 15, 1935 - Nuremberg
Laws established. Starting
immediately:
1. A citizen is one is considered to be pure blood per
the government. You must be born in Germany
and your parents and grandparents must be pure
blood also.
2. You must be faithful to the government.
Nuremberg Laws Continued
3. The state decides who will receive a
certificate of citizenship.
4. Only citizens receive rights and protection
5. Marriages between citizens and non-citizens
are forbidden.
6. Non-citizens can only fly the flag of their
origin.
Nuremberg Laws Continued
7. Non-citizens have no voting rights and
cannot hold public office.
8. Non-citizens are forbidden to own or operate
stores, mail order businesses, sales agencies,
carry on any trade or hold any executive
position.
9. Non-citizens are not entitled to any pension
or compensation when terminated.
These new laws made
the JEWS
NON-CITIZENS
1936 Olympics
.
Summer 1936 – Olympic games
take place in Berlin.
Anti-Jewish signs are
removed until games are over
1936 Olympics
Inaugurating
a new
Olympic ritual,
a lone runner
arrived
bearing a
torch carried
by relay from
the site of the
ancient
Games in
Olympia,
Greece
1936 Olympics
The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games was the perfect opportunity for
the Nazis to prove to the world the reality of the Master Race.
1936 Olympics
49 athletic teams from around the world competed in the
Berlin Olympics. Germany had the largest team at the
Berlin Games with 348 athletes. The Soviet Union did not
participate in the Berlin Games.
Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Iceland
India
Czechoslovakia Italy
Denmark
Japan
Egypt
Latvia
Estonia
Liechtenstein
Finland
Luxembourg
France
Malta
Germany
Mexico
Great Britain Monaco
Greece
Netherlands
Hungary
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
South Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United States
Uruguay
Yugoslavia
African American Athletes
Jesse Owens, "the
fastest human
being," captured four
gold medals and
became the hero of
the Olympics.
After the Games
"I'm afraid the Nazis have succeeded with their
propaganda. First, the Nazis have run the Games
on a lavish scale never before experienced, and
this has appealed to the athletes. Second, the
Nazis have put up a very good front for the
general visitors, especially the big businessmen."
Foreign correspondent William Shirer in his diary, Berlin,
August 16, 1936
In 1940 the Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo.
But thereafter they will take place in Germany for all
time to come, in this stadium."
Adolf Hitler, in conversation with Albert Speer, general
architectural inspector for the Reich, spring 1937
2 Years Later…
• March 13, 1938 – Austria is annexed by
Germany
• 600,000 Jews lived in Germany when the
Nazis took power. With the annexation
the number of Jews targeted has risen to
800,000.
• July 6-15, 1938-representatives from 32
countries meet in Evian, France to discuss
refugee policies.
U.S.A Immigration Policy
• As of 1924 the U.S.A was only letting in
150,000 TOTAL immigrants a year.
• As of 1930 the U.S.A. let in 15,000
German immigrants
• In 1939 it was raised to 27,300
Germany 1933 - 1939
• November 9-10, 1938 – Nazis burn
Jewish synagogues and loot Jewish
homes and businesses called Kristallnacht
(Night of Broken Glass). Nearly 30,000
German and Austrian Jewish men are
deported to concentration camps. Many
Jewish women are jailed.
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Germany 1933 - 1939
• March 15, 1939 – German troops
invade Czechoslovakia
• May 13, 1939 - the S.S. St. Louis
leaves Germany for Cuba
S.S. St. Louis
937 Jewish refugees fleeing
persecution from Nazi Germany