The “Final Solution” and death camps

Starter Write down your answers on your post it note and then swap with the person next to you: Give two reasons why the Nazis hated the Jews What race did Hitler say was “perfect?” Which story was read to students at school? What is meant by “Anti Semitism?”

The “Final Solution” and Death Camps Learning Gain: All learners will know what is meant by the term final solution and concentration camps. What…? How…? Why…? Objectives: …are we learning this? …are we going to learn? …are we learning? To understand Hitler's plans for the Jews and how these were carried out. Through discussion and a reading and writing activity. So we can gain a greater understanding of what happened to Jewish people and how there lives were ended.

In a series of meetings between 1941-2 leading Nazis met and decided the ‘Jewish problem’ needed to be solved. They decided that every Jew in Europe should be killed, around 11 million people. Meeting chaired by Reinhard Heydrich. His nick-name was the ‘Blond Butcher’

Jews were taken from their homes and forced to live in concentration camps. Killing took place by shooting them Later this changed as Nazis decided that shooting was ‘too stressful’ for the Nazi soldiers

At first the Nazis put Jews into a small room and pumped carbon dioxide from lorry exhausts into the room Later gas chambers were developed. Jews were told they were going for a shower and then gassed This was called the Holocaust: the extermination of the Jews

After the war, he escaped and lived in South America until 1979 Some people who were not killed in the gas chambers were used for medical experiments, for example testing the human body to see at what low temperature the body dies (source ii) or raising the volume and seeing at what volume the ear drums burst. The overall aim was to help the German army in combat situations. One doctor called Joseph Mengele enjoyed testing on twins who he found ‘interesting’. After the war, he escaped and lived in South America until 1979 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho5zuuhDoMg i ii iii

Percentage of Jews killed in each country AUSTRIA 35% POLAND 91% USSR 36% NORWAY 45% BELGIUM 45% LUXEMBOURG 55% A Total of 6,000,000 Jews ESTONIA 44% ROMANIA 84% HUNGARY 74% YUGOSLAVIA 81% BOHEMIA 60% LATVIA 84% NETHERLANDS 71% LITHUANIA 85% GERMANY 36% FRANCE 22% GREECE 87%

Treatment of Children What Nazis said about the ‘Final Solution’ Demonstrate Now in full sentences, write down what you understand by the term “the final solution” Work and living conditions Violence and punishments Divide your page as above. Look at your source sheet and write what happened into the four categories. If what you have written fits into more than one category, write in one box then draw a neat line to another

A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS. There were “concentration camps” and “death camps” If you went to a death camp, the chances of coming out were virtually nil Even at concentration camps, you were likely to die from appalling conditions. If you were very young, old or incapable of hard labour, you would most likely be transferred to a death camp YOU MAY ASK "WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE SENT TO PLACES LIKE THIS?" THEY WERE CHILDREN JUST LIKE YOU. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS THEIR RACE AND THE RELIGION THEY FOLLOWED.

(Next lesson we will investigate what happened here further) Auschwitz has a unique place in history. It is where the largest mass murder ever recorded occurred. Yet it is hard to grasp how and why such a chilling place existed. (Next lesson we will investigate what happened here further) In all, 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence; one million of them were Jewish men, women and children.

Other groups of people who died included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, gypsy families, homosexuals, people with disabilities and prisoners of conscience or religious faith

Suffering is built into the very plans Suffering is built into the very plans. Ten thousand Soviet prisoners are put to work building the extension. They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.

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