THE HOLOCAUST

Adolf Hitler Born in Austria Wanted to be an artist Served at the very end of WWI Became disenchanted with life and adopted the rhetoric of an Austrian official where his anti-Semitic beliefs were fostered Reich's Chancellor in 1933 Final Solution begins in 1933

Life before and after

How can you tell? Learning to identify the genetic characteristics of a Jewish person

Measuring… Measuring the length of a nose to determine the background of a person

Nazi propaganda Explains how the race will be corrupted if Jews are allowed to marry into the Aryan race

Nazi propaganda—continued

Star of David

Identities stolen Poster explaining which group was to have the accompanying identification

Kristallnacht--1938

Einsatzgruppen Mobile killing squads followed the German army Eventually ruled inefficient, and killings reverted back to concentration camps

Einsatzgruppen-continued

Being sent to the concentration camps

Arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau “The Platform” Jews sorted into groups, male & female; fit and unfit

Arrival at Auschwitz-continued

Male workers at the camps

Female camp workers

Sorting the belongings after arrival

High altitude medical experiments

Tools of death

Ovens of the crematorium

Mass grave

Death

Glasses left behind

Hair

Shoes left behind

Prosthetics

Sobibor Death Camp--Poland