1. Holocaust Background– The Bloodlands

2. Background to the Holocaust
Building distrust and hatred for Jewish People
German Boycotts of Jewish Businesses
Nuremberg Law—Anti Jewish Laws
Kristallnacht

3. Kristallnacht 4/9-10/1938 The Night of Broken Glass
Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses destroyed
20,000 Jews arrested and sent to concentration camps

4. Genocide
The deliberate killing of an entire group of people

5. The Holocaust Systematic murder of 11+ million people
Occurred across Europe (esp. Bloodlands)
Half of whom were Jews

6. Non-Jewish Victims Gypsies Freemasons Jehovah Witnesses Homosexuals
Slavic Peoples (Russians)
Poles
Political Prisoners

7. Different Camps Extermination (death) Camps Concentration Camps
Pure Extermination camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka(Operation Reinhard) and Chelmno
Combination Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek
Given a task/ job
Worked
22 Main camps in Germany and other European countries