1. Do Now: Holocaust Involvement
Answer the following in 3-5 complete sentences:
Why do you think people involved in the holocaust allowed mass genocide take place? (civilians working or living near concentration camps, SS officers working at camps, railway builders, etc.)

2. The Holocaust
Objective: Analyze actions that allowed the Holocaust to occur & themes in the film Schindler’s List.

3. The Holocaust The Holocaust was not a historical accident…
It occurred because:
individuals, organizations, and governments made choices that….
fostered hatred
legalized discrimination
and ultimately allowed mass murder to occur

4. How did it happen? Existing Anti-Semitism Isolation The Power of Words
The Bystander versus the Collaborator

5. The Power of Words
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one”
“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think”
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth”
“The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew”
What do all these quotes have in common?

6. All Quotes of Adolf Hitler…

7. Holocaust Involvement
Perpetrators: actively involved in the deportation, torture and extermination of Jews and others
Examples:
Police squads
concentration
camp guards
administrators

8. Holocaust Involvement
Collaborators: People who aided perpetrators
Examples:
those who informed on Jews' whereabouts
administrators in occupied countries
railway officials
the architects who designed gas chambers

9. Holocaust Involvement
Bystanders: People who were not actively involved in the extermination program but who watched it happen without any attempt at mitigation
Examples:
Workers near the death camps
civilians who watched the roundups of Jews
army staff who witnessed actions without protest

10. Holocaust Involvement
Resisters: People who took some action to resist extermination policies
Examples:
Work stoppages to protest deportations
resignation of offices in protest
anti-government activity
providing food or shelter to victims

11. Identification
Read the list with a partner and identify the type of involvement each person had in the holocaust.

12. Dr. Mengele