HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Yellow Badge
Document Summary
Aryan paragraph meant various spheres of society were barred to jews (people had to show proof of their ancestry) Legislation defined what it meant to be jewish (jewish parents/grandparents) 1935: great detail of mixed race of certain degrees, categories, which marriages were forbidden, etc. Night of violence against jews, synagogues, jewish businesses. Oct. 1938: germany expelled polish jews living in germany to poland, who also refused them to enter, stranding the jews in the no-man"s land between germany & poland. 17-year-old polish jew living in paris tried to take revenge for this persecution against his parents in germany/poland by shooting a german diplomat in paris. Germans used this shooting to stoke up anti-semitic fervor as proof that the jewish plot was underway (that he couldn"t be acting alone) Goebbels demanded dramatic action, stoking up popular anger. The sa directed a long night of violence against jewish homes, businesses, synagogues.
