Holocaust Summary Slideshow

Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany on Jan 30, 1933 Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany on Jan 30, 1933. He was very persuasive to convince Germans that the German race (Aryans) was far superior to Jews and Gypsies and others who were not blonde hair, blue-eyed people. He is the main person responsible for the Holocaust, which is the killing of over 9 million Jewish people.

Propaganda saying, “God could not want the sick and ailing to reproduce.” This was used as a method to convince people to euthanize (kill intentionally) mentally disabled.

Propaganda again. Here a mentally ill Black teen is used as an example of who should be destroyed and not allowed to reproduce.

Two pages of a death registry at the sanatorium for mentally ill patients. These were all killed through Hitler’s Euthanasia program but they listed false causes of death. At least 200,000 people died in mental institutions because of this program.

This is a picture of the cemetery at Hadamar where victims of euthanasia were buried. It was taken at the end of the war.

Medical experiments were done during the Holocaust Medical experiments were done during the Holocaust. Here they are immersing a man in freezing water in order to study how long it would take for him to get hypothermia and die.

This child shows the scars from where his lymph nodes were removed and he was injected purposely with tuberculosis (a deadly disease of the lungs—highly contagious, too) as a medical experiment.

A prisoner in a concentration camp is put in a compression chamber for medical tests. He lost consciousness and later died from it.

Picture of a former concentration camp prisoner’s leg after it was cut open and intentionally infected with bacteria, broken glass and other things for medical experiments.

Those who were Jewish had to have the J marked on their passport so all would know. Anti-Semitism (persecution against Jews) began in 1920 and continued to strengthen during Hitler’s reign. Jewish blood was all that was required to receive the persecution. Even if they didn’t practice the Jewish religion, if their grandparents were Jews, they were given the punishments.

Jewish people were forced from their homes and made to move into ghettos. There were about 1,000 ghettos between Germany and Poland where they were made to live in horrible conditions.

Here a child sits in the streets of the ghetto eating whatever he can find. Many were living in cramped quarters in buildings that were unfit for anyone to live in much less a large group of people. Many lived without heat, water, electricity or food.

Had you been a Jewish child during this time period, you would be living in the ghetto and working in factories for no pay, all day long, like this Jewish boy.

Jewish synagogues were no longer allowed to be used by Jews Jewish synagogues were no longer allowed to be used by Jews. Instead the Germans turned it into a storage place after they raided Jewish homes and took all of their belongings.

Some resisted the Germans Some resisted the Germans. However, those who did resist and were captured, were instantly killed.

These are two brothers who were in a ghetto in Poland These are two brothers who were in a ghetto in Poland. Two months after this photo was taken, they were deported to a concentration camp where they were killed.

After a young Jewish man killed a German diplomat (after his parents were forced out of their homes by the Nazi’s), the Nazi’s decided it was time to raid the ghettos and destroy the Jewish synagogues. Jewish who were still in their homes were also captured and their homes rampaged.

Because the streets were strewn with broken glass, that is where the name Kristallnacht came from (German for Night of Broken Glass). After this night, Jewish people were deported in very large numbers to different concentration camps. They estimate that up to 30,000 healthy male Jews were deported after this night to concentration camps. At least 267 synagogues were destroyed that night. Over 7,500 Jewish businesses were also destroyed that night.

Germans started sending Jewish people to concentration camps Germans started sending Jewish people to concentration camps. Here you see the men in suits lining up for the German police as they await what happens to them next.

Again, more Jewish men arriving at concentration camps Again, more Jewish men arriving at concentration camps. These camps began in 1933.

After Kristallnacht these concentration camp prisoners at Buchenwald line up for roll call.

Here a Jewish boy looks at his family who had just been shot Here a Jewish boy looks at his family who had just been shot. They then shot him.

This field full of evacuated Jewish prisoners were waiting their fate This field full of evacuated Jewish prisoners were waiting their fate. Soon after this picture was taken, they were all massacred.

Upon arriving at the concentration camps, usually two lines were formed like above. One line went to death (usually in gas chambers or mass executions) and the other went to work for the Germans. To the left is a woman and her children heading to the gas chamber.

While in the concentration camps they took your shoes (notice the pile behind the women) and they would go through your suitcases. Many people were told to pack their belongings and weren’t told where they were going, so once they hit the camps, they took their things away.

These are the piles of Jewish people’s belongings from their suitcases These are the piles of Jewish people’s belongings from their suitcases. Much of it is clothing. Notice the mounds and mounds of them.

Piles of the hairbrushes collected from the Jewish who entered the concentration camp.

Piles of glasses taken from Jewish concentration camp prisoners usually before their death.

In these boxes are the gold and silver fillings from people’s teeth In these boxes are the gold and silver fillings from people’s teeth. They would take these out of people’s mouths before they would burn the bodies in the furnaces.

Before the liberation of these prisoners by the Allied forces, the Nazis had them do what are called “death marches.” They literally walked them day and night, no food, no shelter to get them away from camps so there was no trace of what the Nazi’s did in those camps.

Pictured here are a small portion of the many Jewish women who died on the death march from the camps.

These prisoners died after being evacuated from the concentration camps in trains but the conditions were so poor many died.

Those who survived in the camps until liberation were given an examination by the doctors of the Allied forces. Notice the condition of the prisoners.

These are prisoners from the camps who survived These are prisoners from the camps who survived. This picture was taken at the time of the liberation of these prisoners. Some still died from all the health issues they were facing. But this is what the soldiers found…

And they found this at Buchenwald camp….

And this mass pile of bodies….

And these bodies at Mauthhausen camp…

And mass graves at various camps….

The evil that was done to others, especially Jewish, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally disabled or ill people, and others is unbelievable. It all began in the name of intolerance, prejudice and racism. You learn about it so it can NEVER happen again….