1. “The Final Solution to
the Jewish Question”

2. Jewish exclusion had to
be gradual…

3. 1933
The Boycott of Jewish Businesses
isolated Jews both socially and
economically in German society.

4. 1935
Nuremburg Laws were laws that
deprived German Jews of
citizenship, banned marriage
between Jews & non-Jews, forced
identification with arm-band
– “Law for the Protection of German
Blood and Honor”

5. November 9-10, 1938
• Kristallnacht: “The Night of
Broken Glass”
– pogrom against Jews throughout
Nazi Germany and parts of Austria,
carried out by SA stormtroopers and
civilians.
• German authorities looked on without
intervening. The attacks left the streets
covered with broken glass from the
windows of Jewish-owned stores,
buildings, and synagogues

6. Jewish Ghettos 1939
• Jews forced to live in confined
areas within cities. (Mainly Polish
cities.)
– Starvation
– Disease from crowding
– Cold

7. 1942
• Wannsee Conference
– Nazi officials meet to discuss
and plan the mass murder of
the Jews.

8. “Jewish God is Money”

9. • “The Eternal or Wandering Jew”—1940. As part of its
wartime attack on Jews, the Ministry of Propaganda
used motion pictures as a medium for anti-Semitic
messages.

10. “Behind the enemy powers: the Jew”—
1942

11. Exit
Do you think the U.S. government
would send us messages about a
group of people like the Nazis did?
Why or why not?