1. The Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

2. Jews Targeted Anti-Semitism was deep rooted in European history.
***READ FIRST PAGE OF BOOKLET***
Anti-Semitism was deep rooted in European history.
Scapegoats for all problems including WWI.
Hitler’s Germany = racially pure (ARYAN race)
Nuremburg Laws = stripped Jews of civil rights
Kristallnacht = night of broken glass
November 9th, 1938

3. Timeline Years
FOR THIS SLIDE: write one law put in place during each of the following years. Students will share laws
1933
1935
1936
Hitler becomes Fuhrer: approval rating is 90%.
The German Gestapo is placed “above the law”.
Olympic Games take place in Berlin(Hitler is popular).
1937
1938
Kritstallnacht
Jews are issued identification cards.

4. Timeline
1939
S.S. St. Louis
Jews begin to be placed into ghettos.
Trains
Unsanitary, over crowded, and lack of food
Jews are referred to as a “plague” in German newspapers.
Polish Jews are forced to wear yellow stars
1940:
Nazis build Auschwitz
1941:
First use of Zyklon-B gas in Auschwitz.

5. Timeline cont…
1942:
New York Times reports that 100s of 1,000s of Jews have been gunned down by Nazis.
Britain recognizes Nazi goal to exterminate the Jewish people.
***READ SECOND PAGE OF BOOKLET***

6. Timeline cont…
1943:
Nazis dig up bodies of over one million Jews that were killed and burn the evidence.
First Jewish resistance at Concentration Camps-some actually escape.
Gas chambers and crematories open at Auschwitz.

7. Timeline cont…
***READ THIRD PAGE OF BOOKLET***
1944:
Roosevelt creates War Refugee Board and accuses Germany and Japan of “crimes against humanity”.
1945:
Nazis conduct death marches of Concentration Camp inmates as allies approach.
Liberation of Camps
Russians Liberate Budapest, Warsaw, and Auschwitz.
U.S. and Allies liberate Buchenwald and Dachau.
Americans free 33,000 concentration camp inmates.

8. Hitler’s Final Solution
*Put into lines and sorted-torn from family
*Prisoners buried their own dead(Family threatened)
*Forced Labor-worked to death

9. Concentration Camps Mass executions
Mobile killing squads
Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp
Jews were killed in many ways
Gas chambers
Killed 6,000 daily
Scientific experiments
Hanged
Injected w/poison
Executed

10. Who was killed? Two thirds of all European Jews Killed Jews
Jehovah’s witnesses
Catholics
Communists
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Soviet POWs
Two thirds of all European Jews Killed

11. Adolf Eichmann “Mastermind” who helped to organize and implement:
Kristallnacht
Deportation and Final Solution
Death camps and Gas chambers
Escaped to Buenos Aires with a new name
Found by 5 Israelis
Long process began in 1961
Signed and Ordered murder of a boy who ate cherries.
Death sentence in May of 1962

12. Heinrich Himmler Head of S.S. Involved in Speech to S.S.
Implementation of Final Solution
Camp security
Gas chamber because of killing women and children in “cold blood”
Speech to S.S.
Extermination of Jews was a “small matter”
Better place in war due to lack of Jews
Fled in May of 1945 and was captured by British: bit cyanide pill

13. Josef Mengele Chief Doctor at Auschwitz “Angel of Death”
Experimented on prisoners
Twins, dwarfs, eye color, abnormalities, created Siamese twins, dissected, chemicals in eyes, pregnant women, etc…
Fled to Farm in Germany, then to Argentina, then Paraguay, then had a stroke while swimming in 1979.

14. Goering and Goebbels Herman Goering Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945),
Commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, Head of the Gestapo, Hitler’s designated successor
Tried at Nuremberg and charged with various crimes against humanity.
Swallowed cyanide tablet before execution.
Drug addict, disliked by peers
Joseph Goebbels ( ),
Minister for public enlightenment and propaganda.
Staged a public burning of books
Day after Hitler’s suicide, Goebbels and wife poisoned children and killed themselves

15. Liberation Forced Death Marches
***READ FINAL PAGE OF BOOKLET***
Forced Death Marches
Allies liberated first camps in July 1944
Soviets first to get there
Over 6 million Jews died
Found 14,000 lbs of hair, clothes, etc…

17. Band of Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHcJtU9dr6I
V-E DAY IF TIME REMAINS!