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Activity 1 - Your teacher will show you this clip at the beginning of the lesson
View Trude Silman (Children of the Holocaust) clip
This is the story of a Holocaust survivor who was a child during the Holocaust
Activity 2: The Nuremberg Laws (Copy the following passage into your exercise books)
The Nuremberg Laws is the name given to two laws enacted in Nazi Germany in September of 1935:
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
The Reich Citizenship Law.
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor banned marriage between Jews and non-Jewish Germans, criminalized sexual relations between them, and prohibited Jews from employing German women under the age of 45 as maids. The Reich Citizenship Law was intended to define who the first law applied to. Only individuals of “German or kindred blood” could be citizens of Germany, and Jews, defined as a race, were deprived of German citizenship and relegated to the status of “subjects of the state.” This law defined a Jew as anyone with three or more Jewish-born grandparents, including converts to Christianity and children and grandchildren of such converts.
Watch the following short clip on the Nuremberg Laws
Activity 3 - Source Analysis
Source A: Translation of Article 2 from the Reich Citizenship Law (1935)
Question: According to Source A, what were the essential requirements of a citizen of the Reich? (Content)
Source B: Article on the Nuremberg Laws from the United States Holocaust Studies Museum
1. What did the Nazi party believe about the definition of who a Jew was? (Content)
2. What value does Source B provide to a student studying the Holocaust? Refer to a quote to support your answer.
3. How might the use of Jewish identity cards impact the lives of Jews negatively? List a few methods.
Source C: The Nuremberg Laws Chart
The Nuremberg Laws denied German citizenship to Jews and prohibited marriage between those classified as Jews and those classified as Germans. This chart explains the Nuremberg Laws. The black circles represent Jewish blood. The right 2 columns represent a descendant from 3 to 4 Jewish grandparents. The middle column represents descendants of mixed-race. The chart also lists allowed and forbidden marriages
Question: What does Source C reveal about the role of the Nazi party in controlling the lives of people in Germany? (Content)
Source D: Translation of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour (1935)
Video: The History Place - Triumph of Hitler: The Nuremberg Laws
15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory 'Nuremberg Laws' (youtube.com)
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, September 15, 1935
Entirely convinced that the purity of German blood is essential to the further existence of the German people, and inspired by the uncompromising determination to safeguard the future of the German nation, the Reichstag has unanimously adopted the following law, which is promulgated herewith:
I. 1. Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood are forbidden. Marriages concluded in defiance of this law are void, even if, for the purpose of evading this law, they were concluded abroad. 2. Proceedings for annulment may be initiated only by the Public Prosecutor.
II. Sexual relations outside marriage between Jews and nationals of German of kindred blood are forbidden.
III. Jews will not be permitted to employ female citizens of German or kindred blood under 45 years of age as domestic servants.
IV. 1. Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the national colors. 2. On the other hand they are permitted to display the Jewish colors. The exercise of this right is protected by the State.
V. 1. A person who acts contrary to the prohibition of Section I will be punished with hard labor. 2. A person who acts contrary to the prohibition of Section II will be punished with imprisonment or with hard labor. 3. A person who acts contrary to the provisions of Sections III or IV will be punished with imprisonment up to a year and with a fine, or with one of these penalties.
VI. The Reich Minister of the Interior in agreement with the Deputy Führer and the Reich Minister of Justice will issue the legal and administrative regulations required for the enforcement and supplementing of this law.
VII. The law will become effective on the day after its promulgation; Section III, however, not until January 1, 1936.
Answer the following questions:
When were these laws put into place? (Content)
What restrictions were placed on Jewish people because of these laws? (Content)
What is the motive behind the creation of Source D?
How do you think the Nuremberg Laws would have impacted on non-Jews (Gentiles)?
Based on your reading of Source D, why do you think many German citizens remained largely silent in relation to the discrimination of Nuremberg Laws?
Source E: Holocaust survivor Karl-Georg Roessler on his experience of the Nuremberg Laws.
Watch the video here.
Answer the following questions:
How did the Nuremberg Laws affect Roessler’s parents?
Why did Karl-Georg and his sister side with his mother?
How did their association with their mother impact their lives?
Explain the reliability of Source E in a paragraph (answer in 4 lines)
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