The Unimagined

ACTS OF BIAS Stereotyping, Jokes, Rumors PREJUDICE & BIGOTRY Scapegoating, Name calling, Epithets, Ridicule DISCRIMINATION Harassment, Employment Discrimination, Social exclusion, housing & education discrimination VIOLENCE Murder, Rape, Assault, Arson, Vandalism GENOCIDE

The Persecution of Minorities Nazis persecuted any group that Nazis thought challenged their rule Homosexuals Mentally handicapped Communists Alcoholics Prostitutes Homeless Beggars Habitual criminals As a percentage of their population in (G), the most persecuted group was Gypsies In total numbers killed in (G), the most persecuted group was Jews

Nazis persecuted any group that Nazis thought challenged their rule

Homosexuals

Mentally handicapped

Communists

Alcoholics

Prostitutes

Homeless

Beggars

Habitual criminals

As a percentage of their population in (G), the most persecuted group was Gypsies

In total numbers killed in (G), the most persecuted group was Jews

Persecution Varied Families w/ hereditary illness: Over 300,000 forced sterilizations Mentally handicapped babies and children: Over 5,000 injected w/ poison or starved Mentally ill adults: Over 72,000 gassed, (stopped due to (G) outcry) 5/6 of all Gypsies gasses (No (G) outcry)

Families w/ hereditary illness:

Over 300,000 forced sterilizations

Mentally handicapped babies and children:

Over 5,000 injected w/ poison or starved

Mentally ill adults:

Over 72,000 gassed, (stopped due to (G) outcry)

5/6 of all Gypsies gasses (No (G) outcry)

Hitler and the Jews To read the pages [of Mein Kampf] is to enter a world of the insane, a world peopled by hideous and distorted shadows. The Jew is no longer a human being, he has become a mythical figure, a grimacing leering devil invested with infernal powers, the incarnation of evil. A. Bullock, historian, 1990 Hitler blamed Jews for all things bad Relatively high education levels compared with Hitler’s low grades in school Wealth of Jewish business owners in Vienna (department stores, etc.) versus Hitler’s poverty Germany’s defeat in World War I Hitler’s power grab in 1933: Jews banned from civil Service, broadcasting, teaching SA & SS organized boycotts of Jewish-owned stores (marked with Star of David)

To read the pages [of Mein Kampf] is to enter a world of the insane, a world peopled by hideous and distorted shadows. The Jew is no longer a human being, he has become a mythical figure, a grimacing leering devil invested with infernal powers, the incarnation of evil.

A. Bullock, historian, 1990

Hitler blamed Jews for all things bad

Relatively high education levels compared with Hitler’s low grades in school

Wealth of Jewish business owners in Vienna (department stores, etc.) versus Hitler’s poverty

Germany’s defeat in World War I

Hitler’s power grab in 1933:

Jews banned from civil Service, broadcasting, teaching

SA & SS organized boycotts of Jewish-owned stores (marked with Star of David)

1935 Nuremberg Laws Jews no longer (G) citizens Forbidden to marry or have sex w/ Germans Anti-Jewish messages broadcast Jews refused job Jews refused service in stores In school Jewish kids discriminated against

Jews no longer (G) citizens

Forbidden to marry or have sex w/ Germans

Anti-Jewish messages broadcast

Jews refused job

Jews refused service in stores

In school Jewish kids discriminated against

November 1938: Kristallnacht A young Jew killed a (G) diplomat in Paris Hitler responded: Plain-clothed SS w/ pickaxes, hammers, addresses of Jewish business, ran riot 91 Jews murdered 100s of synagogues burned to the ground 20,000 Jews taken to concentration camps “ The Night of Broken Glass” Most Germans did not believe Hitler’s propaganda that this was a spontaneous outpouring of (G) hatred of Jews Few protested Those who protested were murdered by the SS, hearing shouts of “Jew lover!” ringing in their ears as the knives fell

A young Jew killed a (G) diplomat in Paris

Hitler responded:

Plain-clothed SS w/ pickaxes, hammers, addresses of Jewish business, ran riot

91 Jews murdered

100s of synagogues burned to the ground

20,000 Jews taken to concentration camps

“ The Night of Broken Glass”

Most Germans did not believe Hitler’s propaganda that this was a spontaneous outpouring of (G) hatred of Jews

Few protested

Those who protested were murdered by the SS, hearing shouts of “Jew lover!” ringing in their ears as the knives fell