Name: ______Do Now
February 9, 2006History - ____
Do Now #3
Objective:
3. I will be able to analyze the effects of the Nazi’s early discriminatory laws against the Jews before World War II.
Essential Question: “When can it be easier to blame someone else for your own problems?”
Earn your class the points they deserve by …
- Being sharp in line
- Keeping hands down during the Do Now
- Stacking your binders neatly
- Clipping away all of today’s materials.
Copy today’s objective onto your NEW unit tracking sheet, and then fill in the blanks below.
1. The head of the Nazi party was named H______.
2. Before he came to power, Germany’s government was called a p______d______.
3. In this kind of government, each political party won a p______of the total number of seats in the legislature.
4. Hitler was a very talented public s______. He was very c______.
5. Hitler changed Germany’s government to a d______.
6. We got rid of freedom of the p______, freedom of s______, and freedom of a______.
7. Hitler explained his plans for Germany in his book M______K______.
8. Hitler believed that the A______race was superior to the J______, whom he called an a______- r______.
Complete the ‘P’ step of the SOAPS analysis below:
Today’s Vocabulary Practice: We will say this aloud with our hand signals.
CharismaticAnti-SemitismEugenics
Above and Beyond: Find your Bloom’s Time Travelers sheet. Use it to create questions about Nazism.
Name: ______Classwork
February 9, 2006History - ____
Classwork #3
Early Persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany:
The Nuremberg Laws
Early Nazi Legislation:
Shortly after Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany, Hitler created a series of laws the made it legal to persecute the Jews. Jews could not attend public schools. They could not watch movies at movie theatres (called “cinemas” in Germany). They could not walk in certain sections of German cities. No Jew was allowed to marry a non-Jew. These laws were called the Nuremberg Laws (because they were first passed in the city of Nuremberg, Germany). The laws defined a Jew as anyone who had a single Jewish grandparent. Thus, even if someone decided to convert to Christianity, that person was still “Jewish” according to the law.
Economic Discrimination:
Under the same legislation, the Nazi government fired Jews from all government jobs, from all university jobs, and from all legal jobs (lawyers). There had been many prominent Jewish leaders, professors, and lawyers prior to this legislation in Germany. The government encouraged Germans to boycott Jewish business. Jews quickly began to descend into poverty in many parts of Germany.
Violence:
Soon the Nazi government began directing violence against the Jews of Germ any. In 1938 the Nazi government sponsored a night of attacks against Jewish businesses called Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”). On this night Germans broke the windows of Jewish stores, attacked Jewish citizens, and burned synagogues. The Gestapo (the Nazi police force) arrested hundreds of Jews. Not long after Kristallnacht, the Nazis began sending Jews to concentration camps. A concentration camp was more or less like a prison camp. Jews were kept in cells. They were given very little food. They were forced to work for no pay. Jewish families were torn apart. Many grew sick and died in concentration camps.
Other Groups who were persecuted:
Remember that the Nazis believed that the Aryan race was superior to all others. They persecuted not only the Jews. Blacks were also put in concentration camps (though there were not too many Germans from Africa at this time) as were homosexuals, gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Nazis believed that their goal was to “improve” the human race by getting rid of undesirable races of people. They considered Jews, gypsies, Blacks, and homosexuals “undesirable.” The imprisoned Jehovah’s Witnesses because they refused to swear loyalty to the German army. (Jehovah’s Witnesses typically swear loyalty only to God.)
Above and Beyond: Use your THINK TANK sheet (or the bottom of this page) to create BTT questions for today’s text.
Part II: Complete the missing sections of today’s skeleton with your partner.
Part III: Complete the missing sections of the Nuremberg Laws below. Use your text for help.
A / Jews could no longer have g______jobs.B / The Nazi government organized ______of Jewish businesses.
C / On K______, Germans broke the ______of Jewish stores, burned ______, and arrested many Jews.
D / No Jew could ______a non-Jew.
E / The law defined someone as Jewish if ______
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F / In addition to Jews, the Nuremberg Laws persecuted ______, ______, ______, and ______.
Part IV: Rank A - F in order from MOST terrible to LEAST terrible. Illustrate each of the Nuremberg laws next to its letter.
1. (most terrible) / 4.2. / 5.
3. / 6. (least terrible)
Think tank meetings
- BTT questions
- “What can you do if the government itself turns against you?”
- “How do you know when a government law is ‘unjust,’ and what do you do when it is?”
- “Why did so few Germans have problems with the Nuremberg laws?”
Name: ______Classwork
February 9, 2006History - ____
Quiz Review Sheet
Terms: Briefly describe each of the following terms in a few words or phrases.
1. Genocide - ______
2. Anti-Semitism - ______
3. Eugenics - ______
4. Parliamentary Democracy - ______
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5. Charismatic - ______
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6. Mein Kampf - ______
7. Nuremberg Laws - ______
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8. Ghetto - ______
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Answer each of the following questions in complete sentences.
1. Describe the problems facing Germany following WorldWarI. ______
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2. Explain what the science of eugenics says about different races. ______
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3. How did Hitler and the Nazis explain Germany’s problems? ______
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4. Why did so many Germans vote for Hitler? (Give two different reasons.)
a.) ______
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b.) ______
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5. How did the Nuremberg Laws define someone as Jewish? ______
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6. Against what other groups did the Nazis discriminate? ______
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7. What happened on Kristallnacht? ______
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Above and Beyond: Respond to the following question in the space below.
“When is it easier to blame someone else for your own problems?”