The Holocaust

Europe's anti-Semitic past
Middle Ages
Black Death
1755 Lisbon earthquake
Pogroms in Russia and Poland

Traditional Jewish reaction to persecution
Alleviation
Evasion/flight
Compliance
Suffering=honor=salvation
	*armed resistance absent

Hitler's New World Order
Racial ideology
Scapegoating
Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Kristallnacht (Nov 1938)

Identification
Separation
Annihilation

Turning points in persecution
Invasion of Poland (1939)
Euthanasia program ends
Invasion of USSR (1941)
Psychological toll on killing squads
Wannsee Conference (Jan 1942)

The Camp System
Map of the Death Camps

Jewish Resistance 
Escape/hiding
Mutual self-sacrifice
Cultural activities/ Sanctification of life
Maintaining health/smuggling food
Armed rebellion
	-Warsaw ghetto uprising (1943)
	-Escape from Sobibor, Treblinka

Jewish non-resistance
Jewish councils (Judenrat)
History
German deception
Rationalization

Help from Gentiles
Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and others
Denmark Rescue (Oct. 1943)
Italian resistance
Vichy France

World reaction or inaction?
The Catholic Church
The US and GB
	-Palestine
	-Bermuda Conference (April 1943)
	-War Refugee Board (1944)
Nuremberg Trials
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"-Edmund Burke, 1791