1. Objective: crimes of the Holocaust and their eventual liberation.

2. Ghettos and Concentration Camps
What were ghettos?
Concentration camp
Work/prison camps
Many executed
Round up and shot
Germany invaded Soviet territory
Increases executions
Mobile killing units – Einsatzgruppen
Over 33,000 killed in two days – Kiev

4. Final Solution Kill without wasting ammunition Wannsee Conference
Create six new camps
Extermination
Poison gas
Schutzstaffel – SS
Heinrich Himmler

5. Auschwitz

8. Dachau Shower

12. Josef Mengele

13. Saving Lives Why weren’t the Jews allowed to escape to the U.S.?
War Refugee Board

14. Germany Collapsing Mass extermination Soviets – camps – Auschwitz
Hide evidence
Soviets – camps – Auschwitz
Gave Americans proof

19. Nuremberg Trials Trial for roles in the Holocaust
War crimes
Hermann Goering
No Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels
12 sentenced to death
Vow to not allow genocide to occur again