THE HOLOCAUST LEARNING GOAL: I CAN DESCRIBE HOW DURING THE HOLOCAUST, THE NAZIS SYSTEMATICALLY EXECUTED 6 MILLION JEWS & 5 MILLION OTHER NON-ARYANS OR UNDESIRABLES.

HITLER’S CAMPS

ANTI-SEMITISM: THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS BEGINS HOLOCAUST MEANS SACRIFICE BY FIRE THE HOLOCAUST WAS THE SYSTEMATIC MURDER OF 11 MILLION PEOPLE JEWS PERSECUTED (TARGETED) ANTI-SEMITISM MEANS HATRED OF JEWS JEWS BLAMED FOR GERMANY’S FAILURE IN WW I & ECONOMIC PROBLEMS HITLER MADE GERMANS BELIEVE JEWS WERE TO BLAME FOR THEIR PROBLEMS JEWS WERE OUTSIDERS, WANTED TO CHANGE GERMANY

TREATMENT: DISCRIMINATION OF THE JEWS 1933 HITLER ORDERS ALL ”NON-ARYANS” REMOVED FROM GOVERNMENT JOBS 1935 NUREMBERG LAWS STRIPPED JEWS OF CITIZENSHIP, JOBS & PROPERTY FORCED JEWS TO WEAR BRIGHT YELLOW STAR OF DAVID ON CLOTHING KRISTALLNACHT 11/9-10/1938 “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS” NAZIS ATTACK JEWISH BUSINESSES, SYNAGOGUES & HOMES 100 JEWS KILLED, 30,000 ARRESTED FIRST PHYSICAL ATTACK ON JEWS

JEWISH BADGES

HUMILIATION OF JEWS IN SCHOOL 1935

SA BLOCK JEWISH STORE

SA FORCE JEWS TO PROTEST SHOPPING IN JEWISH STORES

KRISTALLNACHT 11/9-10/1938 “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”

JEWISH REFUGEES NAZIS COULDN’T FORCE JEWISH EMIGRATION ANY FASTER FRANCE & ENGLAND REFUSED MORE REFUGEES 30,000 JEWS SENT TO PALESTINE CONTROLLED BY ENGLAND U.S TAKES IN 100,000 JEWS EINSTEIN & OTHERS WITH “EXCEPTIONAL MERIT” THE “ST. LOUIS” U.S OFFICIALS DENY PASSENGERS FROM ENTERING U.S. 943 PASSENGERS HALF KILLED IN HOLOCAUST

LIFE IN THE GHETTOS FORCED RELOCATION JEWS FORCED TO LIVE IN GHETTOS SEGREGATED CITY PRISONS VERY LITTLE FOOD/DIRTY WAIT TO DIE OR BE SENT TO CAMPS WARSAW GHETTO IN POLAND WAS LARGEST

WARSAW GHETTO

HITLER’S “FINAL SOLUTION” CALLED FOR GENOCIDE GENOCIDE IS THE DELIBERATE & SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF AN ENTIRE POPULATION 1939 250,000 JEWS IN GERMANY 3 MILLION JEWS IN POLAND 11 MILLION JEWS ACROSS EUROPE

CONCENTRATION CAMPS HITLER’S CONDEMNED: HITLER BELIEVED ARYANS WERE SUPERIOR “THE MASTER RACE” HITLER’S “ENEMIES OF THE STATE” INCLUDED: JEWS, GYPSIES, SLAVS, HOMOSEXUALS, MENTALLY RETARDED, NONWHITES, PHYSICALLY DISABLED, COMMUNISTS HITLER’S SPECIAL DEATH SQUADS SECURITY SQUADRONS (SS) ROUNDED UP JEWS & SHOT THEM ON SPOT

CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LABOR CAMPS) PRISONS FOR ALL UNDESIRABLES INMATES WERE WORKED TO DEATH 1942 WANNASEE CONFERENCE: PLAN TO USE POISON GAS TO MASS MURDER UNDESIRABLES STARVATION & SHOOTING TOO SLOW CREATION OF EXTERMINATION/DEATH CAMPS USE OF GAS CHAMBERS “SHOWERS” TO MASS MURDER PEOPLE WITH ZYKLON B POISON BODIES WERE FIRST BURIED IN PITS, SMELLED TOO BAD CREMATORIUMS “OVENS” USED TO BURN THE BODIES

THE FINAL SOLUTION

KILLING ONE AT A TIME, EXECUTIONS WERE TOO SLOW

MASS EXECUTIONS, TOO SLOW

NAZI MOBILE “GAS” VANS

FROM GHETTOS TO TRAINS TO CAMPS

GATE TO AUSCHWITZ: “WORK MAKES ONE FREE”

6 DEATH CAMPS ALL IN POLAND: AUSCHWITZ WAS LARGEST PRISONERS WERE SHOT, HANGED, POISONED, EXPERIMENTED ON, GASSED 6 MILLION JEWS KILLED IN DEATH CAMPS 5 MILLION OTHERS KILLED IN CAMPS

Nazi IdentificationTattoos

SELECTION: WORK OR GAS CHAMBER

INSTRUMENTS S OF DEATH THE “SHOWERS” ZYKLON B

THE CREMATORIUM- “OVENS”

MASS GRAVE, NO TIME TO BURN

WAITING TO DIE

CHILDREN OF THE CAMPS

THE DEAD’S CLOTHES

THE DEAD’S SHOES

THE DEAD’S RINGS

THE DEAD’S HAIR

THE DEAD’S TEETH

EXPERIMENT SURVIVORS

ELI WEISEL SURVIVES AUSCHWITZ

GEN. EISENHOWER INSPECTS THE CAMP AT OHRDURF

OSKAR SCHINDLER & THE SS

“WE SHALL NEVER FORGET”

PASTOR NIEMOELLER “FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS”

Exit Ticket Why do you think the German people helped carry-out the Nazi’s Final Solution? Try to provide at least three reasons.