Nazi Ideology, Policies, and consequences The Holocaust Nazi Ideology, Policies, and consequences

Adolf Hitler and Nazi Ideology Believed in the racial superiority of Aryan race Other races were inferior Aryan refers to Indo-European language group (not race) Germans needed “living space” Need to expand Need to “get rid” of people

What is the Jewish problem? Scapegoated for all the problems during and after WWI Controlled the banks, many businesses Caused economic problems Not a “pure” race Played on historical hatred of Jews (anti-Semitism)

The Final Solution Systematically exterminate the Jewish people and other groups Genocide: the murder of an entire group of people

Heinrich Himmler and SS Himmler – Leader of the SS SS – Schutzstaffeln Nazi Secret Police Tasked with carrying out Final Solution and other acts of violence

Systematic Murder Einsatzgruppen (SS’s Security Service) Followed in after regular German army advances Rounded up Jews into Ghettos People starving, poor housing Death Squads: executed Jews; buried in mass graves

Death Camps (1939 – 1945) Jews loaded onto freight cars – shipped to “concentration” camps 30% sent to labor camps (mostly men) Starved or worked to death 70% sent to gas chambers (mostly women and children Subjected to cruel and painful “medical” experiments

Extent of Atrocities Approx. 6 million Jews were murdered 90% of Jewish population of Poland and Germany murdered 2 out 3 European Jews were killed 9 – 10 million non-Jewish people were murdered Full extent of the atrocity was not known until Allies liberated camps

Nazi Propaganda (Short Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Iazwru7yE