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“Focus on the Holocaust”
1. Nazi
- The National Socialist German
Workers Party
- Enacted numerous measures to
restrict the freedoms of the Jewish
people
2. Adolf Hitler
- German leader from 1933 until his
suicide in 1945
- Used emotional rhetoric to appeal to
German patriotism and to heighten
prejudice against Jews
3. Heinrich Himmler
- Military commander and
prominent Nazi
4. Adolf Eichmann
- Believed to be the person
who devised the plan for the
“final solution”
5. Rudolf Hess
- In charge of Auschwitz
6. Dr. Josef Mengele
- Performed brutal experiments and
operations on people in concentration
camps
7. Third Reich
- the Third Republic of Germany,
led by Hitler
8. Gestapo
- Secret police whose mission was to
prevent opposition to Hitler’s policies
9. Dachau
- Concentration camp used as a
model for other death camps
10. Auschwitz
- Largest death camp
11. Theresienstadt
- Another concentration camp
- Used as a model to deceive
visiting Red Cross dignitaries
about the real nature of the Nazi
camps
12. The Final Solution
- Hitler’s plan to annihilate Jews in
Europe
13. Anne Frank
- Young German Jew who died in the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- After WWII, her father returned to
the place where the family hid from
the Nazis and discovered Anne’s
diary, which became one of the most
widely read accounts of experiences
during the Holocaust.
14. Kristallnacht
- November 9, 1939
- A night of rampaging against Jews
and their property throughout
Nazi-controlled areas
- Name refers to the prevalence of
breaking glass
15. Nuremberg Laws
- Enacted in 1935
- Laid the basis for legal
persecution of Jewish people in
Germany
- Began the process of depriving
the Jews of their legal rights
Why was Germany willing to
accept Hitler as a dictator and to
use the Jews as scapegoats?
The resolution of WWI left a once proud
Germany in a state of shame. Hitler was
able to reawaken national pride and to
draw vast audiences of supportive listeners.
His rhetoric convinced many people that
Jews were the cause of all that was wrong
with Germany.
What forms of propaganda did Hitler
use to indoctrinate and train German
youth, control adult society, and
deceive the world?
- Hitler controlled the media, destroyed
books, and had textbooks rewritten to
align instruction with Nazi guidelines.
- He used positive images for everything
connected with Nazism and negative
images for everything connected with the
Jews.
Could propaganda be used in the
United States today to create
hatred against a minority group?
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Propaganda can be very powerful
because it capitalizes on people’s
prejudices and fears.
Also provides scapegoats to be blamed
for everything that is not going right,
meaning that people then do not have to
blame themselves
Do you think a country like the
United States could ever find itself
engaged in a genocide?
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One would hope the U.S. will never devolve to
genocide, but it is important to remember that
Germany in the 1930s and 1940s was a very
civilized nation.
U.S. history includes cruel treatment of Native
Americans that resulted in decimation of that
population.
Illegal aliens sometimes bear the brunt of blame
for economic problems.