1. The Holocaust Ms. Ha Ch. 16 Sec. 3

2. I. Holocaust A. Systematic murder of 11 million people
1.Estimate 6-7 million Jews
2.Estimate 4+ million other

3. 3. Methods:
a. Mass slaughter (shooting)
b. Starvation
c. Poison Gas (1942)

4. b. Scapegoats for German economic problems c. Hitler didn’t like the
4. Anti-Semitism
a. Hatred of Jews
b. Scapegoats for German
economic problems
c. Hitler didn’t like the
“look” of them

5. II. Kristallnacht: Nov. 9-10, 1938
A. “Night of Broken Glass”
1. Nazis attacked Jewish
homes, businesses &
synagogues across
Germany

6. 2. About 100 killed, & injuries
3. 30,000 arrested
4. Nazis blamed the Jews

7. B. Nazis were pushing for
the Jews to leave Germany.
1. The Jews couldn’t leave
fast enough
2. Countries limited numbers

8. III. Hitler’s “Final Solution”
A. Goal: rid Europe of Jews
1. Policy of genocide
a. Deliberate and systematic
killing of entire population

9. B. Hitler felt Aryans were
“master race”
1. Must be preserved
2. Kill “inferiors”

10. C. “Inferiors”
1. Political threats
2. Elderly/Crippled/Sick
3. Homosexuals
4. Gypsies
5. Jehovah’s Witnesses

11. D. Started exterminations
in Poland
1. Nazi SS
a. “Security squadrons”
b. Death squads
c. Shot on spot
d. Included kids/infants

12. E. Forced Relocation
1. Ghettos: segregated Jewish
areas in Polish cities
2. Sealed off: barbed wire
3. Factories: forced into labor
4. Rebelled: secret newspapers
& schooling

13. IV. Concentration Camps
A. Labor camps
1. Families separated
2. Rare: to see again

14. B. Life in these camps:
1. Hunger
2. Humiliation
3. Work
4. Horror
5. Death

15. C. Stripped of:
1. Wedding bands
2. Gold fillings
3. Shaved hair
4. Hitler: break their spirit

16. Warehouse of personal items
5. Tons(7): shaved hair from victims
6. Used to make cloth

17. D. Living quarters 1. Wooden barracks a) Rats & Fleas b) Starved
2. Work dawn to dusk
3. Worked seven days a week
4. Killed when too ill to work

18. LIVING QUARTERS

19. V. THE FINAL STAGE A. Mass exterminations
1. Hitler felt methods were slow
: added poison gas
3. Death camps (6) built in
Poland
a. 12,000 killed per day

20. B. Auschwitz
1. Largest of the death camps

21. 2. SS doctors
decided who
lived & died
3. Mothers sometimes were told
to pick which of their children
survived/died.

22. Doctors Choosing: Life or Death

23. 4. Unloaded from trains, doctors
said go left or right after
inspection.
5. One side:
went to gas chambers
6. Other side: death postponed

24. Selected for Gas Chamber

25. Inside Gas Chamber

26. Death Trench

27. Crematoriums: hide evidence

28. 7. Other forms used:
a. Shot/hanged/lethal injection
b. Worst: doctor experimentation
1) Children
2) Men
3) Women
c) Deadly germ experiments

29. VI. Survivors A. Some were considered “lucky” 1. Forever changed
2. Strong spirit
3. Pick up pieces
4. Live with the emotional scars

30. Auschwitz Survivors

31. Auschwitz Victims
Anna Klein: Age 6
Jon Klein:
Age 3

32. "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still
remains."  Anne Frank

33. Anne Frank…
Another victim of the Holocaust.