1. Holocaust DeHumanization
By: Avery herbst, madison cenate, donovan itobi, will schmitt, and alyssa petrarca

2. WHAT IS DEHUMANIZATION?
 process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.
Making them feel less than a human 
Not worthy of life
Treating someone in any way that physically and emotionally deprives their human status

3. The beginning the holocaust
First concentration camp opened in march (Dachau)
Located in southern Germany
More than 40,000 camps were created
Concentration camps were originally created for prisoners of war  and members of German Communist parties

4. Dachau First concentration camp to open
Used as a training center and model for future concentration camps
Was in operation for 12 years
200,000 prisoners stepped foot and passed through 

5. Dehumanization in dachau
Began with stripping men and women
All hair was shaved
Jews were taken by doctors for various medical experiments
These experiments included combat wound simulations, of which most of the time were very extreme
Forced to do heavy labor
Experimented on for possible vaccines

6. About Auschwitz Biggest concentration camp
Had 5 functions (concentration, slave-labor, POW, extermination, and transit)
Known as the "death factory"
3 big stages of killing 
gassing at Stammlager September May 1942
The Red Hut May 1942 
the White Hut June 1942
46 "ovens" at Auschwitz 

7. Continued Prisoners were tattooed a number for identification purposes
About 400,000 prisoners were tattooed 
Block 24 
People today will deny this part of history
At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele performed horrid and very gruesome experiments on the Jewish prisoners
Jews used for science experiments have been demoted to the position of a lab rat. Without their consent or permission they were put through terrible simulations such ass hypothermia and altitude sickness.
Doctors also performed bone grafting experiments
Most of the prisoners who were subject to experiments in the Holocaust died during or shortly after them

8. Examples of Dehumanization
Public nudity
Prisoners were forced to walk around without clothing
Long tiring roll calls 
Public hangings after roll call 
Prevention of regular use of toilets
Sold their shoes, hair, gold teeth, blood
Robbery 
Secrecy 
Amusement 

9. Social status Higher class: rewarded with desirable work
These were the kapos and others in charge of the prisoners
Lower class: more demanding tasks (factory work, mining, construction)
This was the majority of prisoners in concentration camps

10. Different methods of dehumanization
Forcing them to wear the star of david

11. Continued...
Stripping Jews of their rights

12. Continued...
Forced them into ghettos

13. Dehumanization Continued
Jews were forced to dig their own graves, as Nazis saw themselves as too elite to dig graves for "rats"
Over 1 million Jewish children and babies were mercilessly slaughtered because of their inability to provide labor in concentration camps
Babies were used for target practice, as they were tossed into the air or stood up in rows.
" 'you'll all be shot, like dogs...' " (Night, pg. 33, Elie Wiesel). This statement shows that SS officers don't at all view their victims as human.
Since mass genocide was an task that deteriorated one emotionally, Nazis trained themselves to believe that Jews weren't people at all.

14. Methods of dehumanization Worksheet multiple choice answers
c. depriving people of human qualities
d. southern germany
a. star of david

15. Methods of dehumanization worksheet true/false answers
4. false 5. false 6. false

16. Methods of dehumanization worksheet fill in the blank answers
7. ghettos
8. 40,000

17. bibliography www.beyondintractability.org/essay/dehumanization
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