The Nazi Holocaust The Nazis’ genocide of Jews

Contents  Def. of Genocide and The Holocaust  Jews living in Europe  Germany and anti-Semitism  Reasons for the Holocaust  The Nazis’ anti-Semitic racial policy  The Ghettos  Camps/ Auschwitz& Birkenau  Liberation & Beyond  References

Def. of Genocide and The Holocaust  Genocide:  The Holocaust : any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group the Nazis’ systematic genocide of among 6 million Jews during  

Jews living in Europe

Jews living in Europe  1st: map of the age of the European Jewish communities in Most of them including Germany have existed for many years.  2nd: map of Jewish population in 1939 in Europe.

Germany and anti-Semitism  anti Jewish sentiment the Nazis used to carry out the persecution & later extermination of the European Jews  1 2

Germany and anti-Semitism  1st: Caricature of Jews’ preference for money and power in Germany.  2nd: Jews persecuted and murdered in the Middle Ages.  3rd: Pseudo-scientific measuring to define the Jews as inferior, threatening the purity of the German, master race.

Germany and anti-Semitism  4th: The ‘stab-in-the-back’ legend: The Jews got blamed for Germany’s defeat in World War Ⅰ.  5th: Caricature depicting Jews threatening Europe, causing economic crisis in 1930s.  6th: Malevolent caricature even appeared on the children’s books.

Reasons for the Holocaust  It’s fundamentally based on Anti-Semitism (hostility toward the difference in religion & Jews taking over the money lending business)  Economic: Nazis confiscated property of Jews and sent it into the Treasury of the State to recover from economic crisis.

Reasons for the Holocaust  Military: Nazis developed the military employing SA&SS, buying war supplies, conscripting the army through property confiscated from Jews.  Political: using hatred of Jews, induced dissatisfaction of German society to it of Jews, justified the dictatorship of Hitler, evoked the pride of racial identity.

The Nazis’ anti-Semitic racial policy  : Boycott of Jewish stores & the Jews are not allowed to work as: civil servants, professors, journalists, artists  1930's: Physical attacks on Jewish property and people  : Jewish property is confiscated, Jews had to emigrate from Germany  : Ghettos are established in Poland  1941: The first organized mass murders (by shooting)& the first gassings (using gassing trucks), Gas chambers and crematoria under construction  1942: Extermination camps are established and Jews are deported there. 

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The Nazis’ anti-Semitic racial policy  1st: Nazis’ racism in Jews was soon accepted by many Germans.  2nd: Nazi storm troopers block the entrance to a Jewish-owned store.  3rd: Adolf Hitler salutes SS troops on parade while SS Leader Himmler watches.

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The Ghettos  1st: map of Jewish Ghettos in Europe.  2nd: Jews in Vienna forced to scrub sidewalks.  3rd: Jewish children in the Lodz Ghetto on their way toward the Chelmno Extermination Camp.

Camps  Concentration camps ( ) imprisoned people in camps because of their “otherness” or in order to use them for forced labor; many purposes  Extermination camps ( ) were constructed with one purpose: to mass murder Jews and others (six extermination camps, 3 million Jews were killed) » Combined camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau  /

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Camps  1st: map of concentration and extermination camps  2nd: map of deportations to extermination camps in occupied Poland; Jews from Germany& German-occupied Europe were deported.

Camps  3rd: A prisoner in Dachau wearing a triangle patch identification on his chest.  4th: A chart of prisoner triangle identification markings used in Nazi concentration camps for guards to easily see which type of prisoner was.  5th: Jewish families arrested in Warsaw Ghetto to be gassed at Treblinka extermination camp.

Camps  6th: The last Jew left alive at Vinica, Ukraine is about to be shot by SS man, as he kneels on the edge of a mass grave.  7th: Bodies are burned in Auschwitz in the summer of  8th: Crematory.

Auschwitz& Birkenau  functioned as a concentration camp & became the largest killing center  more than 1 million Jews were gassed to death

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Auschwitz& Birkenau  1st: Aerial view of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken by the U.S. Army  2nd: Aerial view of Birkenau extermination camp

Auschwitz& Birkenau  3rd: When the victims arrived to the extermination camps in overcrowded trains, men are separated from women (among survivors); the first to be gassed were the men. The SS chose those able to work, while those unable to work were sent to the gas chambers or shot. Their belongings& valuables were handed over before death or those still alive searched the bodies for after death.

Liberation & Beyond

Liberation & Beyond  1st: map of the number of Jews murdered in Nazi-dominated Europe between  2nd: An enormous pile of clothing taken from children who were gassed at Auschwitz.

Liberation & Beyond  3rd: Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz, used to make felt-yarn.  4th: A stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald.

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