1. Holocaust & Nazi Propaganda

2. 1929-1932  World Wide Depression hits Germany harder than any other nation  Germans blame Jews for Depression and defeat of WWI

3. 3 Sign reads: "City of Hersbruck. This lovely city of Hersbruck, this glorious spot of earth, was created only for Germans and not for Jews. Jews are therefore not welcome." Hersbruck, Germany, May 4, 1935. Illustration from an anti-Semitic children's primer. The sign reads "Jews are not wanted here." Germany, 1936. HITLER BEGINS HIS PROPAGANDA OF ANTI- SEMITISM

4. The Poisonous Mushroom  Der Giftpilz, the German word for toadstool, was a publication of Julius Streicher. This particular propaganda was aimed at children and often read in schools. Hitler believed the youth were the future that could enjoy a Jew free world

5.  Just as it is often hard to tell a toadstool from an edible mushroom, so too it is often very hard to recognize the Jew as a swindler and criminal... The Poisonous Mushroom

6.  The Jewish nose is bent. It looks like the number six... The Poisonous Mushroom

7.  Just look at these guys! The louse- infested beards! The filthy, protruding ears...

8. The Poisonous Mushroom  Baptism didn't make a Gentile out of him..."

9. The Poisonous Mushroom  “Daddy, someday when I have my own farm, no Jew will enter my house…”

10. The Poisonous Mushroom  "Farming woman, have I got something special for you today. Look at this material! You can make a dress from it that will make you look like a baroness, like a countess, like a queen..."

11. The Poisonous Mushroom  "Here, kids, I have some candy for you. But you both have to come with me..

12. The Poisonous Mushroom  "Two criminal eyes flashed behind the glasses and the fat lips grinned."

13. The Poisonous Mushroom  "A man was waiting for me at the station. He tipped his hat and was very friendly to me. But I could tell immediately that he was a Jew..."

14. The Poisonous Mushroom  "Well, Colleague Morgenthau, we did a good piece of business today." "Splendid, Colleague Silberstein. We took the lovely money from the two Goy women and can put it in our own pockets."

15. The Poisonous Mushroom  "The animal fell once more to the ground. Slowly it died. The Jews stood around and laughed."

16. The Poisonous Mushroom  "When you see a cross, remember the gruesome murder of the Jews..."

17. The Poisonous Mushroom  "The God of the Jews is money. To earn money, he commits the greatest crimes. He will not rest until he can sit on a huge money sack, until he has become the king of money."

18. The Poisonous Mushroom  The Jew cries: "We don't care about Germany... The main thing is that things go well for us...

19. The Poisonous Mushroom  "People are always saying that we Jews cheat other people, that we lie and deceive. Not a word of it is true. We Jews are the most decent people in the world.

20. The Poisonous Mushroom  "He who fights the Jews battles the Devil."  A devil goes through the land, It's the Jew, well- known to us as a murderer of peoples, a race defiler, a child's horror in all lands! Corrupting our youth stands him in good stead. He wants all peoples dead. Stay away from every Jew, and happiness will come to you!

21. 1923-1929  Hitler uses trial of failed Beer Hall Putsch as a platform for his idea of a Nazi Germany. Put in jail and released after only one year  While in prison wrote “Mein Kampf” My Struggle  Nazi Party grows and swears death oath to Hitler

22. "Four and a Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice." Initially sold very poorly as people looked for an autobiography of Hitler  Given as a gift to newlyweds and graduates  Few people actually read it cover to cover  Hitler later stated that he regretted ever publishing Mein Kampf

23. "We are born to die for Germany”

24. Blood and Honor!

28. Jews Targeted  Many European Countries had a long history of hatred towards Jews Blamed them for loss of WWI and economic problems  Nuremberg laws Stripped Jews of citizenship, jobs, property

29. 29 HITLER’S NEXT STEP WAS TO ISSUE IDENTIFICATION CARDS TO ALL PEOPLE LIVING IN GERMAN TERRITORIES. JEWISH CARDS HAD A YELLOW STAR TO EASILY IDENTIFY THEM. HITLER THEN MADE JEWS WEAR THE YELLOW STAR ANY TIME THEY LEFT THEIR HOMES

30. "He who wears this symbol is an enemy of our people."

31. 1933  Dachau created as Nazis begin arresting Socialists, Communists, and labor leaders  Jews banned from teaching, journalism, law, and practicing medicine  Any book non Nazi was burned  Businesses taken away from them

32. 1933 Burning Books

33. Kristallnacht“night of broken glass”  Nov. 9-10, 1938  Nazi storm troopers attack Jews shops.  30,000 taken prisoner  Synagogues burned  Nazi’s blamed Jews for destruction

34. Emigration of Jews  Forced to Leave.  Countries like France, Britain, even U.S. stopped admitting them.  Nobody wanted them

35. The Final Solution  1939, Hitler wanted to rid Germany of the rest of the 250,000 jews. Why?  Aryans are the Master Race  Anyone else is inferior Jews, gypsies, freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally ill, disabled They all create a burden on society

36. 36 JEWS Put into Ghettos WARSAW GHETTO

39. Ration Stamps for the Ghettos

40. 40 AS HITLER CONQUERS NEW TERRITORIES, HE EXPANDS THE LOCATION OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS OUTSIDE OF GERMANY MAP FROM UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

41. 41 JEWS ARE ROUNDED UP AND DEPORTED TO EXTERMINATION CAMPS MAP FROM UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

42. 42 DEATH CAME IN MANY FORMS EINSATZGRUPPEN STARVATION ZYKLON B POISON GAS GAS CHAMBER

43. Death Squads “Einsatzgruppen”  Started in Poland  SS rounded up  Killed on the spot

45. Death Camps  Final Solution 1942 Built for mass extermination Gas chambers  Process 1. Get off train 2. Decision by SS doctors 3. Led to gas chamber 4. Ordered to strip 5. Thought they were taking a shower 6. Gassed 7. Stripped of gold teeth 8. Burned 9. Up to 12,000 people a day

46. Keeping it all hidden  How do you hide 7 million Jews and their deaths? Camps were usually in forest Buried bodies at first in trenches Then started burning in trenches  Too much left behind  Ovens  Ash would fall on surrounding country side  DID the local residents know what was going on?

47. Experiments  Dr. Joseph Mengele “angel of death”  Sterilization  Amputations  Surgeries  Putting body under extreme stress

48. The Concentration Camps  Left over Jews put in camps  Buchenwald, Auschwitz,Dachau Work camps  7 days a week  Lived in barracks  Disease  Hunger  Worked to death  Those who were too weak were shot at end of day  tattooed

49. Sonderkomando How do you control prisoners?  Jewish, soldiers that were spared the death chamber.  Job was to assist in keeping Inmates under control  Would beat their own people  Helped in disposing bodies

53. 1943-1944  Oscar Schindler saves over 1,000 Polish Jews “Schindler’s List”  German Forces begin to suffer defeats on the battlefield intensifying the Holocaust  Small bands of resistance

54. Did they ever resist?

55. 1945  Allied soldiers march into German territory discovering Concentration Camps  Hitler commits suicide  Germany surrenders

59. Liberation!!!!  A lot still died after being liberated  Couldn’t feed them too much at first  Allies locked them back up for own protection for a while.

60. 60 MAP FROM UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

61. 61 YALTA CONFERENCE, 1945: FDR, CHURCHILL AND STALIN MET TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF EUROPE AFTER THE WAR.

62. Yalta Conference Let Germany reunite Give Poland back Stalin agreed to join war in Japan United Nations created 62

63. 63 CAPTURED NAZI LEADERS ON TRIAL FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 12 of 24 defendants sentenced to death Nuremburg Trials

64. 64 HIDEKI TOJO, FORMER JAPANESE PREMIER AND WAR MINISTER, TAKES THE STAND DURING THE JAPANESE WAR CRIMES TRIALS. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES AND HANGED.