1. HOLOCAUST

2. Important Terms Eugenics Euthanasia Sterilization Ghetto’s
Race betterment through breeding
Euthanasia
Mercy killing
Sterilization
Inability to reproduce
Ghetto’s
Segregated areas of a city

3. Nazi’s Adolf Hitler Reinhard Heydrich Heinrich Himmler Joseph Goebbels
Oversaw Wannsee Conference
Heinrich Himmler
Commander of SS and Gestapo
2nd in Germany
Joseph Goebbels
German Propaganda Minister
Adolf Eichmann
Oversaw the Final Solution

4. Goebbels

5. Eichmann

6. Himmler

7. Heydrich

9. Germany Germany Depression 1920’s and 1930’s
Looked for a way out someone to blame
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
Talks about
Jews are inferior
Jews didn’t fully support Germany in WWI
Could be blamed for troubles in Germany

10. Aryan Race
Ideal German
Blond hair, blue eyes

12. 1939-1945 TARGETS (WHY?) Jews Slavs and Poles Gypsies (Roma and Sinti)
Handicapped (mentally and physically)
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Enemies of the state
Homosexuals

13. 1939-1945 11 million total 6 million Jews (2/3rds Jewish population)
5 million others

16. STAGES OF THE HOLOCAUST
1. Sterilization
2. Euthanize handicapped
3. Final Solution

17. Sterilization Cause inferior people to stop reproducing
Injections and radiation
Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
July 1933
Sterilize mentally and physically handicapped, epileptic, blind, deaf, or alcoholics
400,000 by wars end

19. T-4 Euthanasia Program 1939-1941
Put people out of their misery and save Germany from paying for them
Deformed, disabled, handicapped, and mentally ill
200,000

21. Nuremberg Laws (1935) Laws to restrict rights of Jews
1. Jews could not marry Germans (Hard labor)
2. No longer citizens, no sexual relations with Germans, no vote, and no public office (Imprisonment)
Defined a Jew as a person with 1 Jewish grandparent

22. Ghettos Areas designated for Jews in major cities
Warsaw was the biggest
Warsaw had a major uprising

29. Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass
State sponsored actions against Jews and Jewish businesses
Nov.8th- 9th 1938
200 killed
30,000 to camps
7,000 stores destroyed
1,574 synagogues destroyed

33. Final Solution Final Solution of the Jewish Problem Genocide
Rounded up and put into Ghettos
Wait for deportation
1. Used bullets and injections (Too $)
2. Work or starve to death (Too slow)
3. Gas Chambers

38. Camps Concentration Labor and Death
Work for war effort until replaced or die

39. Camps Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) Treblinka (Poland) Belzec (Poland)
1.5 million
Treblinka (Poland)
800,000
Belzec (Poland)
436,000
Majdanek (Poland)
235,000
Sobibor (Poland)
170,000
Chelmno (Poland)
152,000

40. Auschwitz

41. Auschwitz

44. Gas Chambers Started out with exhaust from cars
Moved on to Zyclon B (rat poison)
Efficient and cheap

48. Auschwitz

49. Nuremberg Laws
List concentration camps (locations)
Kristallnacht
Targets of the Holocaust
How many people were killed? Jews?
List the 2 major ghettos
Sterilization program was called?
Euthanasia Program was called?
Main stages of the Holocaust
Final solution planner
Final solution implementer
German Propaganda Minister
Wannsee Conference