anti-Semitism

Jason Gao

Analyze the major factors responsible for the rise of anti-Semitism in 19th century Europe.

Thesis: Adolf Hitler's rabid hatred of Jews led to the rapid development of anti-Semitism throughout Europe, quickly accumulating until Hitler's death.

Rise of the Nazi Party, Hitler's influence within Hitler WWII- ghettos, WWII- Final Solution
 * National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi for short)
 * SA (Sturmabteilung/Storm Troops)
 * Party grows from 60 members to 8.5 million
 * Fuhrerprinzip (leadership principle)
 * "A good National Socialist is one who would let himself be killed for his Fuhrer at any time."
 * Great Depression
 * Unemployment from 4.35 million to 6 million
 * Made Nazi rise to power possible
 * Mussolini
 * Hitler's relationship
 * Mein Kamph
 * Extreme German nationalism, virulent anti-Semitism, vicious anticommunism
 * Originality: analysis of mass propaganda, mass psychology, mass organization of peoples
 * "Hitler Over Germany"
 * Early years
 * Leader-type person
 * deeply religious
 * expected to be on top of his class
 * Leopold Potsch
 * Taught Hitler about how Austrians were evil to Germans
 * Ghettos
 * Rounding up of Jews and forcible removal from homes
 * Final Solution
 * SS
 * Reinhard Heydrich (administrative responsibility)
 * Einsatzgruppen (created by Heydrich to round up Polish Jews)
 * Holes dug by victims, who were then shot
 * Morale Problems
 * Himmler
 * "he would not like it if Germans did such a thing gladly. But their conscience was in no way impaired, for they were soldiers who had to carry out every order unconditionally. He alone had responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that was happening, . . . and he was acting from a deep understanding of the necessity for this operation."
 * Kristallnacht
 * Nuremberg Laws

WWII- death camps WWII- last stages of the war
 * Examples of death camps
 * Extermination camps
 * Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, Belzec, Chelmno
 * Concentration camps
 * Neuengamme, Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau Dora, Buchenwald, Flossenberg, Natzweiler, Dachau, Jasenovac, Gospic, Sajmiste, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof
 * Within the hell
 * Gassing chambers
 * Slave work
 * "medical" experiments
 * Hitler's suicide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm