Genocide - a systematic killing of a specific group Holocaust – Genocide of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, homosexuals, and the disabled in Nazi occupied territories.

This was the name of what Hitler believed was the “Master-race.” Anti -Semitism ‘Hatred of Jews’. Aryan Race This was the name of what Hitler believed was the “Master-race.”

Nuremberg Laws: Star of David No intermarriage Removed from positions

Book Burning – anything unGerman or Jewish Jewish professors were fired from their jobs at the universities.

Boycott of Jewish Businesses

Night of Broken Glass – targeted Jewish businesses. Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass – targeted Jewish businesses.

St Louis – filled with Jewish passengers were denied entrance into USA and Cuba.

Ghettos were set up in Nazi-occupied Europe by Nazi Germany in order to confine and segregate Jews Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Largest Ghetto where the jewish occupants revolted. 56,065, Jews were caught or killed.

Initially, a special task force was established within the SS (Einsatsgruppen) that was responsible for carrying out mass execution of Jews.

33,771 persons shot by the SS during the mass executions at Babi Yar 33,771 persons shot by the SS during the mass executions at Babi Yar. These are the clothes that were left behind

Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp. Jews were gassed in mobile gas vans. Carbon monoxide gas from the engine’s exhaust was fed into the sealed rear compartment. THIS IS THE GAS THAT WAS INTRODUCED IN 1942. JEWS WERE SENT INTO SEALED SHOWER UNITS ON THE PRETENCE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE SHOWERED. PELLETS WERE THEN PLACED INTO THE SHOWER HEADS AND GAS CAME FROM THE SHOWERS INSTEAD OF WATER. 15 MINUTES LATER THE SHOWER ROOM WOULD BE EMPTIED, BODIES WERE ALWAYS IN A PYRAMID SHAPE, PEOPLE TRIED TO CLIMB ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER TO ESCAPE THE GAS. BEFORE THIS TYPE OF KILLING METHOD WAS INTRODUCED THOUGH A MORE PRIMITIVE GASSING METHOD WAS USED.... I DON'T KNOW HOW, OR EVEN WHY THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN, BUT IT SHOWS SOME MEN AWAITING DEATH ON THEIR WAY TO THEIR BURIAL PLACE. DID THEY ALWAYS BURY THE DEAD?

Concentration Camps Concentration camps were turned into extermination camps. Jews were transported to these camps from all over German occupied territories. Once the Jews arrived they killed by poison gas or lethal injections. It was the most effective and efficient way to kill a large number of people.

crematorium “Mercy killing” – young, Elderly, and the disabled who could not work were killed immediately.

Hitler’s Final Solution – kill all the Jews

Poland and other Eastern European Countries

Jews were forced to give up their gold and silver to the SS.

Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg Trials War trials of high ranking Nazis Crimes against Humanity Genocide—Systematic killing of an entire group of people