TITLE The holocaust

Time line Pre war World war 2 Hitler in power Nuremberg Laws Night of broken glass Auschwitz establish War begin Ghettos establish in Poland Gas tasted at Auschwitz The final solution Germany serenaded Deporting to Extermination Camps

 The rise of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) was swift and far from certain. Support for Hitler and his Nazi Party only took off after the full impact of the Wall Street Crash (October 1929) was felt on Weimar Germany.  Prior to the Wall Street Crash, in 1928 the Nazis polled less than 3% of the popular vote. Just four years later the vote for the Nazis had increased to just over 37% of those who voted.  The Collapse of German Democracy. The rise of the Nazi party Berlin, Germany, , The Reichstag in Flames Germany, Prewar, A Nazi Propaganda Poster Calling Workers to Vote for Hitler

 Lebensraum - the need for 'living space' for the German nation to expand.  A strong Germany - the Treaty of Versailles should be abolished and all German- speaking people united in one country.  Führer - the idea that there should be a single leader with complete power rather than a democracy.  Social Darwinism - the idea that the Aryan race was superior and Jews were 'subhuman'.  Autarky - the idea that Germany should be economically self-sufficient.  Germany was in danger - from Communists and Jews, who had to be destroyed. The Nazi party Ideology

The party developed a 25-Point Programme, which - after the failure of the Munich Putsch in Hitler explained further in his book 'Mein Kampf'.

The Persecution of Non-Jewish Groups  Jews were not the only victims of the Nazi regime in Germany. In keeping with their policy, the Nazis took action to suppress various racial and social groups and to remove them from society.  The Sinti and Roma (the "Gypsies").  The disabled and mentally ill.  homosexuals, alcoholics, and homeless vagrants and Ideological opponents such as Communists or members of certain churches, were persecuted even if they were considered members of the "Aryan race."

Social Exclusion and Economic Persecution of the Jews Law- Nuremberg Laws- These laws imposed various restrictions on the lives of the Jews in Germany and banished them from social and economic life. Social- many Germans were inclined to have nothing to do with Jews, whether due to Antisemitism or in return for benefits, such as economic, social and political gains, which they obtained by the dispossession of the Jews. A bench with the inscription Only for Jews, Germany Germany, A Sign Which Reads :'Jews are Not Wanted Here'

Time line Pre war World war 2 Hitler in power Nuremberg Laws Night of broken glass Auschwitz establish War begin Ghettos establish in Poland Gas tasted at Auschwitz The final solution Germany serenaded Deporting to Extermination Camps

Isolation and Ghettoization  In September 1939 the Germans invaded Poland, thus subjecting around two million Polish Jews, to violence, humiliation, dispossession, and arbitrary kidnappings for forced labor.  Thousands of Jews were murdered in the first months of the occupation.  Ghettos- Shortly after the occupation, the Germans began to confine the Jews to specific residential neighborhoods in the cities, cutting the Jews off almost totally from their surroundings.  The German invasion of the USSR and areas of Eastern Poland, in the summer of 1941, saw a wave of mass murders of Jews in these areas. The remaining Jews there were forced into ghettos, similar to Jews in Western Poland.

 As soon as the Nazis came to power, they began to set up concentration camps as a tool for suppressing political opponents and "undesirable" elements of society.  2 kind of camps- Labor camps and Concentration camps.  Gradually, the Nazis came to use the camps for the economic exploitation of the inmates by means of forced labor.  Living conditions in the camps were inhumane, and masses of prisoners died of starvation, hard labor and abuse.  The camp system of the Third Reich reached its peak after the opening of the Auschwitz complex, more than a million Jews were murdered. The Nazi Camps

Time line Pre war World war 2 Hitler in power Nuremberg Laws Night of broken glass Auschwitz establish War begin Ghettos establish in Poland Gas tasted at Auschwitz The final solution Germany serenaded Deporting to Extermination Camps

The Final Solution  Upon the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Nazis introduced the plan for the systematic murder of European Jewry known as "the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem“ Beginning on June 22,  All Jews in Germany and other occupied areas and the occupied countries were deported to sealed ghettos as a holding area.  Many were then shipped in cattle cars to labor camps where they lived under brutally inhuman conditions. Hundreds of thousands were sent directly to the gas chambers in death camps.  German technological expertise was harnessed to make the mass murder as efficient and low-cost as possible.

The Nazi Extermination Camps  The majority of Holocaust victims were murdered by the Nazis in six killing centers strictly intended for this purpose.

 Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau)- 1,100,000  Chełmno- 320,000  Belzec- 600,000  Majdanek- 360,000  Sobibor- 250,000  Treblinka- 700,000–800,000  The total estimate of Jews that were killed- 6,000,000

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