1. Mr. Marston Arcadia High School/2014
Holocaust Power Point
Mr. Marston
Arcadia High School/2014

2. What is the Holocaust/Final Solution

3. Holocaust/Final Solution
Planned extermination of 6-11 million European Jews, during World War II.

5. What was Hitler’s Master Race
Aryan or master Race, Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes, this race was superior and must be preserved. All other races were deemed inferior.

6. Aryan Race-Master Race
Germany’s master race philosophy

7. Why did the Germans persecute these groups: Jews
Hitler needed a scapegoat to blame problems in Germany on, He chose the Jews
Anti Semitism- (hatred of the Jews)-had existed in Europe for some

8. 3 groups Germans persecuted
1) Gypsies-were believed to be inferior, by the Nazi's.
2) Freemasons-were charged by the Nazis as being supporters of the Jewish Conspiracy to rule the world

9. 3 Groups Germans persecuted
3)Jehovah Witness members refused to join Hitler’s army and salute him.

10. First Solution Expulsion of Jews from small villages And towns.
Judenrein-Jew Free Zones

11. Second Solution
Jews emigrated to larger cities

12. Third Solution
Ghettoization- Jews walled off in major cities, excluded from others.

13. Fourth Solution Murder Jews in every locality
Carried out by Einsatzgruppen

14. Fifth/Final Solution
Extermination of all European Jews, sent to camps, murdered by gas (Zyklon-B)

15. Action T4, Action 14f13
ActionT4-70,273 people were judged to be sick and were killed
Action 14f13 (Special Treatment)-Sick, elderly, those unable to work were killed

16. Why the Germans persecuted these groups: Physically disabled
Same as the mentally ill category

17. Concentration Camps
A place where prisoners were mistreated, subjected to medical experiments, died from disease, starvation, overwork, or were executed as being unfit for working.

18. Extermination Camps
These camps main function was to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. Within 24 hours of arrival, prisoners would have been killed.

19. Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass-November 9-10, 1938.
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues across Germany.

20. Ways people died
1) GAS-Zyklon-B

21. Ways people died
2) Tortured to death

22. Ways people died
3) Shot/worked to death

23. 6 Extermination Camps/Poland
Camp: Killed:
1) Auschwitz-Birkenau 1,100,000
2) Treblinka ,000
3) Belzic ,500
4) Sobibor ,000
5) Chelmno ,000
6)Majdanek ,000

24. Operation Reinhard
SS codename for the systematic destruction of 2,284,000 Polish Jews. It was conducted by 3 camps: Sobibor, Treblinka, and Belzic
Length: March 1942-December 1943