HIST 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nuremberg Laws, Warsaw Ghetto
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The holocaust: no real definition of what a jew was- made it hard to individualize, anti-jewish boycott (1933)- hitler attempted to get the german people to stop buying from jewish merchants but it failed. The german people still didn"t see a problem with the jews: nuremberg laws (1935)- legally defines who is jewish c. i. If someone had three or four jewish grandparents that made them a jew c. ii. Germans forbidden to mate with jews: kristallnacht (night of broken glass) d. i. Jew shops had their windows broken: the final solution a. General government- dumping ground for people hitler doesn"t want a. ii. Killing squads that went around and killed jews: european jews, problems a. i. Some soldiers didn"t want to kill them a. ii. Hitler wanted a more secret way to kill: solutions b. i. Collective reprisal- 1 person does something- everyone gets punished a. iii. Lack of training and weapons: resistance b. i.
