1. The Holocaust

2. An Introduction to the Holocaust
holocaust means to destroy by fire Holocaust is the Event
Nazi policy of hate against various groups including: Jews, J. Witnesses, Roma (Gypsies), Slavics, Homosexuals, Trade Unionists , Communists, Socialists, Criminals and the Handicapped to name a few
Nazis were a political party- not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were German
, it is a stand-alone event that happens to run partially concurrently with WWII and it ends with the defeat of Germany in WWII.

3. The man responsible Adolf hitler

4. Hitler’s Parents Alois and Klara

5. Rumors of Hitler being Jewish
Hitler’s Grandmother (Anna Maria) was orphaned at an early age and went to work as an Au Pair for a Jewish family-the Schicklgrubers(a common Jewish name in Austria)
Later she got pregnant by Johann Georg Heidler/Hilder/Himmer/Hitler
He was most likely a con-man who she never saw again
Son resulting was Alois who early on was known as Schicklgruber later Hitler (the name she knew the father under)
After her death, Anna Maria was buried in the family plot in a Jewish cemetery
Also later on, it was claimed that Alois’ real father was the son of the Schicklgruber’s (he was only 6 when Anna Maria had Alois though)

6. Alois Jr (Hitler’s second half brother)
Paula Hitler (full sister) high School above and after WWII below
Angela Hitler Raubal (half sister)
William Patrick Stuart Hitler
Illegitimate son of Alois Jr
Geli Raubal (niece and love interest)

7. Willy Hitler had four sons and lived in NYC, the sons (one died in 1987, lived under different names and agreed that they would not have any children
Angela had two surviving sons Heinz and Richard
Paula’s children lived under assumed names since after the war and are thought to have last been living in Italy

8. Hitler was born 20 April 1887
He was considered very intelligent as a youngster, but before long get into trouble at school. He argued with his teachers and skipped quite often.
However, it was not malicious skipping. He would be found in the local parks painting, which was his true passion in life.
Eventually he graduated from HS and applied to the Vienna Academy of Art (the best art school in Europe). This caused a huge fight with his dad, who thought art was a waste.
Hitler leaves to go to Vienna and basically never speaks to his father again.

9. Examples of Hitler’s artwork, notice that he doesn’t have people, he didn’t feel that he could draw/paint people very well because he couldn’t get the noses right

10. His application was accepted and he was invited for an interview
He goes to interview and it goes well
He is told that his portfolio was incomplete
He didn’t add any portraits
They couldn’t accept it incomplete/he throws a fit
They offer their school of architecture
He walks out
Nine man board/at least 8 if not all 9 were Jewish
Some historians suggest that this was the major turning point in his life and set up the Holocaust
I am not in complete agreement

11. Hitler in Vienna possibly drawn at his request from a friend
Makes ends meet by making post cards for tourists
Hears his father has died
He doesn’t go home
Hears his mom is sick, he attempts to get home but is too late
He goes to funeral and signs everything over to his younger sister.
They have limited contact from there on out
When he returns to Vienna, shortly after that, war breaks out and Hitler decided to enlist but goes to Germany to do that

12. He is a runner on the Western Front
Very dangerous
Deliver messages from the front, makes you a desirable target
Eventually he is seriously wounded
He comes quite close to dying in a gas filled shell hole
Sent back to Germany to recover, takes the better part of a year
By the time he gets out, Germany has lost the war
Background as to what happened to what caused Germany to lose war and what happened to them after
Russian Revolution
US enters war
Communist Uprising
Armistice
Treaty of Versailles

13. Hitler is just making it when he is found by his old commanding General
He is recruited to become an spy for the government
He is sent to join a small political party to keep tabs on them
National Socialist Germany Workers Party
Nazionale socialistiche duetschland arbeitlung partei (Nazi- from the first four letters)
He joins and soon comes to believe in their talk.
He takes over
Nazi party begins to grow
Hitler in an early party picture- note his lapel badge is an early swazstika.

14. Beer Hall Putsch
Found out and a riot ensues
Trial
Sentenced for encitement and given seven years
Rudolf Hess volunteers to go with him
Time in jail
Life inside
Writes Mein Kampf
First play into politics
1928 Presidential election
Nazis on the rise
Reichstag- Hermann Goring
1932 Presidential election
Chancellorship 1933

15. 1933
Jan 30- Hitler made Chancellor
Reichstag fire (27 Feb)
Mysterious
State of Emergency
First roundups
Dachau opens to hold political prisoners (it is the first Concentration Camp and will be the largest)
Law to Prevent Offspring with Hereditary Defects (July). T-4 program
1934
Continued moves toward a paranoid society
1935
Nuremberg Laws
Law of German Citizenship
Law for the Protection of the Purity of German Blood

16. 1936
Germany retakes Rhineland- only France objects
Olympics comes to Berlin, Huge success for Hitler (except for Jesse Owens) largely due to Goebbels
1937
Everything comes back in full force
1938
Anschluss of Austria
Munich Agreement
Sudetenland given to Germany
Kryastallnacht (Nov 7- 9/10)
Hershel Grynspan kills von Rath in Paris
1939
Germany takes rest of Czechoslovakia
Allies say no more appeasement
Polish Corridor
August 31

17. 1 September
First Ghettos established
1940
Rabbi Ringelblum establishes the Oneg Shabbat project in Warsaw
1941
Germany attacks Soviet Union, they now have to two largest populations of Jews in Europe. What to do with them?
Einsatzgruppen begin mass shootings
8 December Himmler orders Chelmno into operation (1st Death Camp- tested on Russian prisoners of war)
Wannssee Conference- this is where the “Final Solution” was brought to the attention of the government, but no big wigs, Heydrich was put in charge by Himmler on Goring’s authority (Conspiracy)
1942
Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz open
Anne Frank begins her diary

18. 1942 (cont)
“White Rose” begins in Germany- 1st Germany resistance group
1943
Hans and Sophie Scholl are arrested/tried/executed as are several other members of their group.
Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins
The most successful Death Camp revolt occurs at Sobibor
1944
20 July “Valkyrie” unsuccessful attempt to remove Hitler led by von Stauffenberg
Various revolts take place all over as people can sense end of Nazis
1945
All the death camps have been shut down as allies-US, UK, and France from West and USSR from East close in
End of April/early May Hitler kills himself, leaves Admiral Karl Doenitz in charge. He unconditionally surrenders on 7 May

19. Aftermath
Immediately after many inmates can’t be let go because of the health risk to them and others
Nuremberg Trials
Crimes against Humanity
Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels committed suicide
Bormann (absentia), Frank, Frick, Goring, Jodl, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Saukel, Seyss-Inquart, Streicher, and Ribbentropp sentenced to death- Goring committed suicide the night before
Doenitz, Funk, Hess, Raeder, Speer, von Neurath, Schirach sentenced to several different levels of incarceration ranging up to life- Hess is the only one to serve whole sentence sort of
Fritzsche, Schacht, and von Papen aquitted
Later many more will be tried (Judgement at Nuremberg)