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Propaganda Poster Warning Germans of European Jews

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Propaganda Poster Warning Germans of European Jews

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Kritika Uprety

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Claire Kosek

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Claire Kosek

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Insane or Just Evil? A Psychiatrist Takes a New Look at Hitler (Published 1998)

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Dr Fritz Redlich’s new book, Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet, concludes that Hitler exhibited many psychiatric symptoms, including extreme paranoia and defenses, but that he most likely was not truly mentally ill and that he knew what he was doing and chose to do it with pride and enthusi…

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Claire Kosek

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Ryan Greer

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CAC-IB-Geography - Jews From Nazi Germany

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Forced Migration is a term defined by: migration due to a well founded fear of persecution. In Nazi Germany life conditions for the Jewish population had hit an all time low with Hitler assuming the Chancellorship of Germany. Their lives were threatened on a daily basis.

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The Emigration of the Jew Image -Eric Kim

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The Emigration of the Jew Image -Eric Kim

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Samara Owens

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Ryan Greer

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One of the benefits of my work is that people frequently write me asking for information about something in their possession. One of the most interesting of those comes from a woman whose father, a B-17 pilot, found this remarkable painting while visiting the bombed-out remains of the beer hall in Munich where Hitler had held many of his early meetings. I have added it to the page of Nazi paintings of Hitler.

I am not familiar with the artist, one F. Thiele. I welcome information from anyone who know more about the artist or this painting.

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A 1938 Painting of Adolf Hitler Surfaces

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One of the benefits of my work is that people frequently write me asking for information about something in their possession. One of the most interesting of those comes from a woman whose father, a B-17 pilot, found this remarkable painting while visiting the bombed-out remains of the beer hall in Munich where Hitler had held many of his early meetings.

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By:Ryan Greer

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On 27 January 1945 Soviet soldiers entered the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex in south-west Poland. The site had been evacuated by the Nazis just days earlier. Thus ended the largest mass murder in a single location in human history.

Precise numbers are still debated, but according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German SS systematically killed at least 960,000 of the 1.1-1.3 million Jews deported to the camp. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war and at least 10,000 from other nationalities. More people died at Auschwitz than at any other Nazi concentration camp and probably than at any death camp in history.

The Soviet troops found grisly evidence of the horror. About 7,000 starving prisoners were found alive in the camp. Millions of items of clothing that once belonged to men, women and children were discovered along with 6,350kg of human hair. The Auschwitz museum holds more than 100,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000 kitchen utensils, 3,800 suitcases and 350 striped camp garments.

Pile of boots at Auschwitz concentration camp. Photograph: Geraint Lewis/Rex

The first Nazi base in Auschwitz, named after the nearby Silesian town of Oświęcim, was set up in May 1940, 37 miles west of Krakow. Now known as Auschwitz I, the site covered 40 square kilometres.

In January 1942, the Nazi party decided to roll out the "Final Solution". Camps dedicated solely to the extermination of Jews had been created before, but this was formalised by SS Lieutenant General Reinhard Heydrich in a speech at the Wannsee conference. The extermination camp Auschwitz II (or Auschwitz-Birkenau) was opened in the same year.

With its sections separated by barbed-wire fences, Auschwitz II had the largest prisoner population of any of the three main camps. In January 1942, the first chamber using lethal Zyklon B gas was built on the camp. This building was judged inadequate for killing on the scale the Nazis wanted, and four further chambers were built. These were used for systematic genocide right up until November 1944, two months before the camp was liberated.

Aerial view of Auschwitz-Birkenau

This is not the limit of the horrors of Auschwitz I. It was also the site of disturbing medical experimentation on Jewish and Roma prisoners, including castration, sterilisation and testing how they were affected by contagious diseases. The infamous "Angel of Death", SS captain Dr Josef Mengele, was one of the physicians practising here. His particular interest was experimenting on twins.

According to the numbers provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Auschwitz was the site of the most deaths (1.1 million) of any of the six dedicated extermination camps. By these estimates, Auschwitz was the site of at least one out of every six deaths during the Holocaust. The only camp with comparable figures was Treblinka in north-east Poland, where about 850,000 are thought to have died.

Children wearing concentration camp uniforms shortly after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet army on 27 January 1945. Photograph: SUB/AP

The third camp, Auschwitz III, also called Monowitz, was opened in October 1942. It was predominantly used as a base for imprisoned labourers working for the German chemical company IG Farben. According to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum, an estimated 10,000 labourers are thought to have died there. Once they were judged incapable of work, most were killed with a phenol injection to the heart.

The SS began to evacuate the camp in mid-January 1945. About 60,000 prisoners were forced to march 30 miles westwards where they could board trains to other concentration camps. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates 15,000 died during the journey, with the Nazis killing anyone who fell behind.

More than 7,000 Nazi personnel are thought to have served at Auschwitz but just a few hundred have been prosecuted for the crimes committed there. The pursuit of justice has not ceased, with German justice officials saying on 2013 that there were 30 surviving Auschwitz officials who should face prosecution.

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Auschwitz: a short history of the largest mass murder site in human history

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On 27 January 1945 Soviet soldiers entered the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex in south-west Poland. The site had been evacuated by the Nazis just days earlier. Thus ended the largest mass murder in a single location in human history.

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The image shows German children reading an anti-Jewish propaganda book.

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The image shows German children reading an anti-Jewish propaganda book.

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Kritika Uprety

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By:SAMARA OWENS
Hitler's idea of the superiority of the "German race" or the Aryan race
https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007679

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What Other races did  The Nazis discriminate? (Ryan Greer)

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What Other races did  The Nazis discriminate? (Ryan Greer)

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The Nazis not only discriminated Judes, which is Jews in German, but they also discriminated priests, gay people, gypsies, people with mental and physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, and resistance fighters.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007457

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BY: SAMARA OWENS
Nuremberg laws were two laws that took away some the Jews rights and rejected their German life.
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/WestEurope/NuremLaws.html

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5) Describe Kristallnacht and what this German word means?-Claire Kosek

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5) Describe Kristallnacht and what this German word means?-Claire Kosek

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Kristallnacht (cree-stall-nach), is a German word meaning, crystal night. "Kristall" means crystal, and "nacht" means night, so the translation is quite simple. Kristallnacht is called this because the glass shards that littered the street reflected upon by the moon had a crystal like appearance. It is ironic that a name such as Crystal Night is used for the beginning of the mass murder of German and Austrian Jews, and the start of harsh tactics. Crystal night, or the "Night Of Broken Glass", refers to  November 9th and 10th of 1938 when 1000 Jewish synagogues and 7,500 schools and businesses were burned by Nazis and those supporting National Socialist Germany under the Adolf Hitler regime. Germans in support of the Hitler regime used the death of a low-level diplomat in France, by a seventeen year old Polish-Jew as a reason for Kristallnacht. Before the night of Kristallnacht, Nazis were primarily peaceful and non-violent towards Jewish people, but were soon following Gestapo tactics, or by being brutal to those in opposition. Nearly one-hundred Jewish people died that night, and thirty-thousand Jewish men were sent to encampments.

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Kristallnacht - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com

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Find out more about the history of Kristallnacht, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com

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Anti-Semitism is hostility to or prejudice against the Jews. In other words, it is a bad behavior to the Jews, because  they are Jewish. Jews were forced into the role of minority. When things went wrong, the Jews took the blame.
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The belief or behavior hostile toward Jews just because they are Jewish. It may take the form of religious teachings that proclaim the inferiority of Jews, for instance, or political efforts to isolate, oppress, or otherwise injure them. It may also include prejudiced or stereotyped views about Jews.

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Anti-Semitism is hostile behavior toward Jews just because they are Jewish, including stereotyped views and teachings proclaiming the inferiority of Jews.

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The Use of Propaganda to Convince People Against the Nazis (By: Kritika Uprety)

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The Use of Propaganda to Convince People Against the Nazis (By: Kritika Uprety)

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Propaganda was used to convince people against the Nazis that wanted to separate by reminding the Germans of the struggle against foreign enemies and Jewish subversion. These propaganda campaigns also encouraged the acceptance of the upcoming actions against Jews. The article states, "...Nazi propaganda stressed to both civilians at home and to soldiers, police officers, and non-German auxiliaries..." The Nazi propaganda was essential to motivate the people who helped cause the murders of European Jews and of other victims of the Nazi.

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"task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly."

Communicating the Nazi Message

Nazi Following the seizure of power in 1933, Hitler established a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels. The Ministry's aim was to ensure that the Nazi message was successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press.

There were several audiences for Nazi propaganda. Germans were reminded of the struggle against foreign enemies and Jewish subversion. During periods preceding legislation or executive measures against Jews, propaganda campaigns created an atmosphere tolerant of violence against Jews, particularly in 1935 (before the Nuremberg Race Laws of September) and in 1938 (prior to the barrage of antisemitic economic legislation following ). Propaganda also encouraged passivity and acceptance of the impending measures against Jews, as these appeared to depict the Nazi government as stepping in and "restoring order."

Real and perceived discrimination against ethnic Germans in east European nations which had gained territory at Germany's expense following World War I, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland, was the subject of Nazi propaganda. This propaganda sought to elicit political loyalty and so-called race consciousness among the ethnic German populations. It also sought to mislead foreign governments-including the European Great Powers-that Nazi Germany was making understandable and fair demands for concessions and annexations.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union , Nazi propaganda stressed to both civilians at home and to soldiers, police officers, and non-German auxiliaries serving in occupied territory themes linking Soviet Communism to European Jewry, presenting Germany as the defender of "Western" culture against the "Judeo-Bolshevik threat, and painting an apocalyptic picture of what would happen if the Soviets won the war. This was particularly the case after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad in February 1943. These themes may have been instrumental in inducing Nazi and non-Nazi Germans as well as local collaborators to fight on until the very end.

The Role of Film

(1938), depicted the Films in particular played an important role in disseminating racial antisemitism, the superiority of German military power, and the intrinsic evil of the enemies as defined by Nazi ideology. Nazi films portrayed Jews as "subhuman" creatures infiltrating Aryan society. For example, The Eternal Jew (1940), directed by Fritz Hippler, portrayed Jews as wandering cultural parasites, consumed by sex and money. Some films, such as The Triumph of the Will (1935) by Leni Riefenstahl , glorified Hitler and the National Socialist movement. Two other Riefenstahl works, Festival of the Nations and Festival of Beauty and promoted national pride in the successes of the Nazi regime at the Olympics. 1936 Berlin Olympic Games

The Role of Newspapers

Newspapers in Germany, above all Der Stürmer (The Attacker), printed cartoons that used antisemitic caricatures to depict Jews. After the Germans began World War II with the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Nazi regime employed propaganda to impress upon German civilians and soldiers that the Jews were not only subhuman, but also dangerous enemies of the German Reich. The regime aimed to elicit support, or at least acquiescence, for policies aimed at removing Jews permanently from areas of German settlement.

Covering up Atrocities and Mass Murder

During the implementation of the " ," the mass murder of European Jews, SS officials at Final Solution killing centers compelled the victims of the Holocaust to maintain the deception necessary to deport the Jews from Germany and occupied Europe as smoothly as possible. Concentration camp and killing center officials compelled prisoners, many of whom would soon die in the gas chambers, to send postcards home stating that they were being treated well and living in good conditions. Here, the camp authorities used propaganda to cover up atrocities and mass murder.

In June 1944, the German Security Police permitted an camp-ghetto, located in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (today: Czech Republic). The SS and police had established Theresienstadt in November 1941 as an instrument of propaganda for domestic consumption in the German Reich. The camp-ghetto was used as an explanation for Germans who were puzzled by the deportation of German and Austrian Jews who were elderly, disabled war veterans, or locally known artists and musicians "to the East" for "labor." In preparation for the 1944 visit, the International Red Cross team to inspect the Theresienstadt ghetto underwent a "beautification" program. In the wake of the inspection, SS officials in the Protectorate produced a film using ghetto residents as a demonstration of the benevolent treatment the Jewish "residents" of Theresienstadt supposedly enjoyed. When the film was completed, SS officials deported most of the "cast" to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center.

Mobilizing the Population

The Nazi regime used propaganda effectively to mobilize the German population to support its wars of conquest until the very end of the regime. Nazi propaganda was likewise essential to motivating those who implemented the mass murder of the European Jews and of other victims of the Nazi regime. It also served to secure the acquiescence of millions of others-as bystanders -to racially targeted persecution and mass murder.

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"task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly."

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Eric Kim
Samara Owens
Claire Kosek
Kritika Uprety
Ryan Greer