1. RIGHT CORNER >: 1) Write: Name: _, Period: _,
Date: 04/30/12, Topic: Holocaust
LEFT CORNER <: Write “Opener #28” and then:
1) Write 1 high+1 low in last 24 hours
2) Rate your comprehension for this
week’s material so far: lost<1-5>easy
3) Respond to the Opener by writing
at least 1 sentences about:
Your opinions/thoughts OR/AND
Questions sparked by the clip OR/AND
Summary of the clip OR/AND
Announcements: None

2. Genocide: Attempt to eliminate an entire group.
What Makes the Holocaust/Shoah unlike
any in the Past or Present?
a) Entire population of people (women,
children) were targeted for their
religion, not for what they did, but for
being born.
b) It was coordinated by the government
c) It was completed with scientific
efficiently and industrial scale
d) Their success, over 60% of Europe’s
Jews (40% of the World’s) are gone

3. Preview:
1) Manchuria Incident (1931): Ultranationalist take over
democracy, military fakes attack on Jap. railroad in
Chinese Manchuria, Jap invades.
2) Japan Invades Rest of China (1937): KMT forced to
join with CCP to fight Japan.

5. Notes 28, Title: “Start of WWII”
1) 1936: Ger. reoccupy French cont. Rhineland
(1931: Japan-Manchuria 1935: Italy-Ethopia)

6. 2) 1938: Ger. Demands Sudetenland (Ger.
speaking part of democratic Czechoslovakia)

7. 3) 9/1938: Munich Conference: UK+France let Ger.
have part of Czech in return no more expansion
(appeasement)
4) 3/1939: Ger. takes over rest of Czechoslovakia

8. 5) 8/1939: Hitler + Stalin ally to split up E. Europe

9. 6) 9/01/1939: Ger. invades Poland, UK+France
decl. war. WWII Eur. has started (WWII Asia 37)
7) Axis Powers (1940): Germany, Italy, Japan ally
(USSR temp with Ger)

10. Activ #28a, Title “1920s Diary”
1) Put yourself in their place, describe
what emotions and feelings you would
feel if you were Jewish, and your family
has faced generations of discrimination.
While times are hard, your parents are
skilled professionals, and you live a
comfortable life. You focus on school.
Would you leave yet?

11. Notes #28b, Title: “Holocaust”
8) Pre-WWII: Anti-Semitism: Hatred for people
who practice Judaism or descend from those
who practice goes back to very start
1400s 1889 (France) 1920 (US)

12. 2007, Granada Hills, CA

13. a) Historic rivalry: Jews, Christians, Muslims
b) Fear+jealousy of Jews limit living areas + jobs
(limits lead high # living in E. Europe, high
education, early concentration in banking)
c) Many early communists were Jewish (Marx)

14. 9) Holocaust/Shoah (1933–45): 6 million+ Jewish
civilians: 2/3 all Eur, 2/5 of World’s Jews killed
(+ Nazi opposition, Communists,
Romas/Gypsies, Homosexuals, Disabled)

15. 10) Nazi Anti-Semitism: Blame Jews for WWI and
created pseudo-science of Jewish
threat+inferiority to enhance Ger. nationalism

18. Eternal Jew (Der Ewige Jude)

19. Children's book, sign reads: “Jews are our
misfortune + how they cheat.” (1930s)

20. Poison Mushroom (Der Giftpilz)

21. Notes #28b, Title: “Holocaust”
11) 4/1933: Nazis stage boycott of Jewish biz +
Ger. police stand by

22. Notes #28a, Title: “Holocaust”
12) 9/1935: Nuremberg Laws passed against
Jews
Chart used to help
determine if you
were Jewish
(3 Jewish
grandparents)

23. Nuremburg Laws (September 15, 1935)
Entirely convinced that the purity of German blood is
essential to the further existence of the German people…
the Reichstag has unanimously resolved upon the
following law, which is promulgated herewith:
Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or
kindred blood are forbidden. Marriages concluded in
defiance of this law are void, even if, for the purpose of
evading this law, they were concluded abroad.
Jews will not be permitted to employ female citizens of
German or kindred blood as domestic workers under the
age of 45.
Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag
or the national colours. On the other hand they are
permitted to display the Jewish colours.

24. Activ #28b, Title “1930s Diary”
1) Put yourself in their place, describe
what emotions and feelings you would
feel if you were Jewish, Germans boycott
your parents, and the Nuremberg Laws
were just passed.
Would you leave yet?

25. Notes #28b, Title: “Holocaust”
13) 7/1938: Jews required to carry special ID

26. Notes #28b, Title: “Holocaust”
14) 11/9/1938 (Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken
Glass): Response to teenage Jew killing a Ger,
9000 Jewish biz + 900 synagogues destroyed,
30,000 Jew leaders sent to camps.

27. From Heinrich Müller to all Gestapo Offices
(November 9, 1938):
1) Actions against Jews, especially against their
synagogues, will take place throughout the Reich shortly.
They are not to be interfered with; however, liaison is to
be effected with the Ordnungspolizei to ensure that
looting and other significant excesses are suppressed.
2) So far as important archive material exists in
synagogues this is to be secured by immediate measures.
3) Preparations are to be made for the arrest of about
20,000 to 30,000 Jews in the Reich. Above all well-to-do
Jews are to be selected.
4) Should Jews in possession of weapons be encountered
in the course of the action, the sharpest measures.

28. From Reinhard Heydrich to all Gestapo (November
10, 1938):
On account of the assassination of the Leg. Sec. v. Rath
in Paris, demonstrations against the Jews are to be
expected throughout the Reich in the present night...
a) Only such measures should be taken as will not
endanger German life or property (i.e. synagogue burning
only if there is no fire-danger to the surroundings)…
b) Businesses and dwellings of Jews should only be
destroyed, not plundered. The police are instructed to
supervise this regulation and to arrest looters.
c) Special care is to be taken that in business streets
non-Jewish businesses are absolutely secured against
damage

29. Notes #28b, Title: “Holocaust”
15) 1939: 930 Jews aboard St. Louis turned away,
US accept only 20,000 Jews in WWII
(Shanghai one of few places accepting Jews)

30. Activ #28c, Title “1939 Diary”
1) Put yourself in their place, describe
what emotions and feelings you would
feel if you were on the US St. Louis?
Would you leave yet?

31. Notes #28b, Title: “Holocaust”
16) 1940: Warsaw Ghetto containing 400,000+
Jews, is sealed, Jews across Eur. used as
slave labor (Many large Ger. comp like VW + BMW benefited)

35. Notes #28b, Title: “Holocaust”
17) 1942: Nazis determine "Final Solution" to be
implemented by the SS, led by Himmler, to use
science + industry to kill as efficiently as
possible: rail > gas chamber > crematorium

41. Perpetrators
Nazis, Hitler, Himler, SS officers, and
thousands others.
Bystanders
German Civilians, Catholic Church,
Allies, and billions of others.
Upstanders
Jewish resistors, Japanese diplomat
Sugihara, German Businessman Oskar
Schindler, Netherlands, community
of Shanghai, and thousands of others.

42. Activity #29a, Title “Video: Upstander”
1) Copy Source Title: Schindler’s List
2…) Discuss questions on the board
with a partner. Summarize your
discussion (include their name at the
end).
Remember participation points are deducted if off task.
5 Reading/Film Qs Come From These Activity Sections
Time Bookmark: 00:00

50. First they came for the communists, and
I did not speak up—because I was not a
communist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did
not speak up—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for the Catholics, and I
didn't speak up—because I was a
Protestant;
Then they came for me—and by that time
no one was left to speak up.
-Pastor Martin Niemöller

51. Homework:
1) Pick your Holocaust topic by Friday,
begin researching your topic

52. Reflection #29 (place at the end of today’s work)
Pick the 1 most important thing you
learned today to share with your partner.
1) Write down the main idea of
today.
(include their name).
2) Summarize Mr. Chiang’s closing
remarks