1. 13. What was Hitler’s “Final Solution?”
Thesis
Jewish Persecution
Nuremburg Laws
Kristallnacht
Isolation
Final Solution
Ghettos
Purity
Einsatzgruppen
Labor/Death Camps
Wannsee Conference
concentration camps
Survivors 1

2. Nuremburg Laws 1935
Nazi’s made Jewish persecution government policy, first passing laws that Jews could not hold Office
Nuremburg Laws deprived Jews of their rights as German citizens
To identify them they had to wear a bright yellow star on their clothing

3. Kristallnacht 1938
After Kristallnacht many Jews realized the danger and fled Germany to other countries for safety.
Hitler favor emigration, forcing Jews who did not want to leave out of Germany
France 25,000 – Britain 80,000 – Latin America 40,000 – US 100,000 (Albert Einstein)
Many Americans wanted the doors closed and the British didn’t want to take in more for fear of fueling Anti-Semitism if the numbers continued to grow

4. Isolation after 1939
The Jews that remained were ordered to move to certain cities in Poland during World War II
Hitler wanted to separate all Jews from his people, if he couldn’t get rid of them he would isolate them from everyone else

5. Ghettos
Segregated Jewish areas sealed off by walls and barbed wire, cut off from all supplies
Hitler wanted them to die of starvation and disease
The Jewish community in these ghettos were very resistant, forming resistance organizations to smuggle in food and other supplies
As they struggled to keep their traditions they produced plays & concerts, even had secret schools.

6. Purity
Hitler believed his plan of conquest depended on the purity of the Aryan race
Not only did they have to eliminate Jews, but gypsies, Poles, Russians, mentally & physically disabled, and the incurably ill.

7. Einsatzgruppen
SS troops were sent town to town hunting Jews, rounding them up and took them to isolated spots where they would kill them in pits that became their prisoners’ grave
Those not reached by the SS killing squad were rounded up and taken to either concentration camps or slave labor camps located in mainly Germany & Poland

8. Wannsee Conference too difficult on Einsatzgruppen Final Solution
meeting occurred in 1942
The systematic killing of an entire people

9. concentration camps
These camps were built with gas chambers for mass murdering killing as many as 6,000 people a day
The most famous, such as Auschwitz, the people were separated.
The strong men were sent to one side , while the women, children, weak, and old were waved over to another
They were told to undress for a shower, led into a chamber with fake shower heads, locked inside and poisoned with cyanide gas.
The bodies were later burned in crematoriums

10. Survivors Some six million Jews died in death camps or Nazi massacres
Fewer than 4 million European Jews survived the horrors of the Holocaust
With help from many non-Jewish people who were against the Nazi treatment, many were saved, smuggled to other countries, helped to escape to neutral countries such as Switzerland or Sweden