Holocaust Holocaust starts when Hitler comes to power in 1933. The next few slides will take you through the events of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Video http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust/videos/concentration-camp-liberation
Nuremberg Laws Nuremberg Laws (1935) strip the Jews of their citizenship and make it legal to persecute.
Kristallnacht Night of the broken glass. SS men dress as civilians and loot Jewish homes and businesses.
WW2 WW2 starts 9/1/39 when the Nazis invade Poland. Jews were forced to relocate to Ghettos. Nazis steal Jewish property and force Jews to work as slave laborers.
Ghettos
Einsatzgruppen Behind the front lines, mobile killing squads called Einsatzgruppens murder Jews and so called enemies of the state.
Final Solution The Nazis decide that they want to murder the Jews in secret. Large death camps are constructed in Poland. Gas chambers disguised as showers will be the method of murder. Wannsee Conference in January of 1942 is where the SS lays out the Final Solution to all Nazis heads of government.
Wannsee Conference
Auschwitz Largest Nazis death camp. 2 million Jews murdered.
Treblinka 780,000 Jews murdered.
Sobibor 250,000 Jews murdered.
Trains
Nazis Doctors
Gas Chambers
Zyklon B
Crematorium Ovens
Liberation The Holocaust ends with the defeat of Nazis Germany in 1945.
SS (Main perpetrators of the Holocaust)
SS (Schutzstaffel) Hitler’s elite troops. Served as a bodyguard division, concentration camp guards, Gestapo (secret police), Waffen (front line fighting units). Gave their oath of loyalty to Hitler (Not Germany).
Hitler’s SS View video on the SS. Record 8 facts outline form.
Life in Nazis Germany Complete reading and answer the short answer questions.
Oscar Schindler (1908-1974)
Itzhak Stern (1901-1969)
Amon Goeth
Schindler, hero or war criminal? Why?
Meaning of the girl with the red coat?
Einsatzgruppen Behind the front lines, mobile killing squads called Einsatzgruppens murder Jews and so called enemies of the state.
Auschwitz Largest Nazis death camp. 2 million Jews murdered.
Auschwitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgOiVOpCag4
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 4/19/1943 - 5/16/1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsspS3B53M
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 4/19/1943 - 5/16/43 (held out for a month). Sparked other uprisings (Sobibor).
Sobibor 250,000 Jews murdered.
Franz Stangl (Camp Commandant)
Sobibor During a revolt of 14 October 1943, about 600 prisoners tried to escape; about half succeeded in crossing the fence, of whom around 50 evaded capture.
Escape from Sobibor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=262VEdl0jNE Show intro clip 1st. Start @ 1:45 in.
Nazis Hunter Name of Nazis & list 2 crimes. Which Nazis was the worst? Why?