Objective: Describe the Holocaust. Holocaust Notes Objective: Describe the Holocaust.

The Holocaust The Allied liberation of Europe revealed the horrors of the Holocaust- Nazi Germany’s system of slaughter of European Jews. Germany’s conquest of Europe put millions of additional Jews under its control.

German soldiers rounded Jews up sent them to concentration camps, or were killed.

The Final Solution Some used as slave labor and in some cases as human experimentation Germans practiced genocide- the deliberate annihilation of an entire people- against the Jews. Called it the “final solution of the Jewish question”

Nazi’s took advantage of a long history of anti-Semitism that went back to Middle Ages. Nazi propaganda stirred up this feeling

Concentration camps were also used against Gypsies, Poles, mentally disabled people, and religious and political prisoners.

By it’s end six million people were killed by the Holocaust