Chapter 24 Section 2 The United States in World War II Riddlebarger The Holocaust Chapter 24 Section 2 The United States in World War II Riddlebarger

First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me. Martin Niemöller, German pastor who turned when Hitler wanted state before religion.

The Holocaust Introduction Origins of the Holocaust Implementation Anti-Semitism 2 strands of Nazism Intentionists vs. Functionalists Implementation 4 Phases Final Solution American Response Liberation Nuremberg Trials

Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the hell of war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin? Quote from “Hitler”, by Joachim Fest p. 679-80, 1974

Introduction

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Origins of the Holocaust

2 strands of Nazism

Stage One: Preliminary (1933-1940) Kristallnacht

Jewish Ghettos Top left: Jewish virtual library

Stage 2: Transitional 1940-42 Liquidation Jews, Communists in Soviet Union Concentration Camps Constructed

Stage 3: Main Phase 1942-1944: The Final Solution Systematic Elimination

now go in hand with the destruction of World Jewry will suffer a great catastrophe at the same time as Bolshevism. The Fuhrer once more expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will now go in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness. Propaganda leader in Nazi Germany. Fuhrer successor. Had his 6 children killed before he and his wife took their lives. The Goebbels diaries, p. 86, 1948 Joseph Goebbels, Reich Propaganda Minister.

Where did the greatest losses of life take place during the Holocaust?

In Aushwitz, a warehouse of clothes belonging to murdered women.

American Response

U.S. liberation of Buchenwald

Nuremberg Trials Hermann Geoering