1. The Holocaust The Development of the Final Solution: the answer to the Nazis’ “Jewish Question”

2.  “First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”
—Martin Niemoeller

3. “All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.”
--Edmund Burke

4. Anti-Semitism
Hostility towards or prejudice against Jews or Judaism

5. 2. Pre-1930’s Roots
Historically, the Jews were considered SCAPEGOATS* for
1. KILLING CHRIST
2. BLACK DEATH
And any other natural or economic problem ; however, anti-Semitism generally only a problem during poor economic times
*Left alone if they converted to Christianity

6. 3. Then, World War One happened
Germany BLAMED, have to PAY FOR WAR.
Economy is in shambles, guess who is blamed? The JEWS
When the economy is down, racism goes up
Propaganda helps incite hate towards Jews.

7. Anti-Semitism in Germany
Hitler blamed Jews for German losses after WWI and the economic depression that spread thereafter

8. Examples of Propaganda Posters -notice the dark colors, big nose, dark curly hair and emphasis on money

9. Hitler takes over Germany and established the “Jewish Question” (What is to be done with Germany’s Jews?)
1933 HITLER elected to power, crushes all opponents.
1934 BOYCOTT of Jewish Businesses

10. Hitler takes over continued
1935 NUREMBERG LAWS deprive Jews of citizenship and therefore rights
Jew = RACE (BLOOD) not RELIGION
(SO CONVERSION DOESN’T MATTER NOW)
JEWISH = 1 JEWISH
GRANDPARENT

11. “The Jewish Question” How do you get rid of 500 000 Jews? Attempts:
MADAGASCAR PLAN
EVIAN CONFERENCE (US AND CANADA SAY NO!)
Jews randomly beat up all over Germany, leave, but over
stay. Why?

12. 5. The Violence Escalates AND JEWS CAN NO LONGER LEAVE…..
1934: Nazis already executing MENTALLY HANDICAPPED in T4 EUTHANASIA program
1938: Kristallnacht “the NIGHT of the broken glass. Jews arrested and thrown in concentration camps, such as Dachau.

13. Krystallnacht – Nov 9th, 1938 “Night of Broken Glass”
Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German towns and cities

14. Dachau
The first concentration camp was opened in Germany in 1933

16. T-4 Euthanasia Program

17. 60,000 Reichsmarks is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money too.

19. And then, World War II Breaks Out
Nazis crush POLAND
Now total of 2.5 million Jews under Nazi control

20. 7. Jews are moved to GHETTOS
Until Germans can decide what to do
Ghettos are:
CRAMPED (HUNDREDS OF 1000S IN ONLY A COUPLE OF BLOCKS)
SUFFERING FROM STARVATION
FULL OF DISEASE AND DIRTY

21. The Ghettos

22. The Problem Gets Bigger…
8. The “Jewish” problems (Nazi perceived) compounded by the invasion of the SOVIET UNION in the Spring of Now have 5 million Jews under their control.
Their response?
1. EINSATZGRUPPEN (SPECIAL SQUAD)
2. GAS VANS (DISCOVERED ACCIDENTALLY)

26. Meanwhile…
A new concentration camp called AUSCHWITZ built to hold POLISH political prisoners and Russian Prisoners of WAR.
Already using ZYKLON B in special gas chambers. (first in a sealed off cabin)

27. 10. Jan.1942 – “Wannsee CONFERENCE”
Decide all Jews under German CONTROL will be sent to DEATH camps.

28. Areas under German Control
France, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Channel Islands, Belgium, Poland, USSR, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Lithuania, Norway etc.

29. Operation Reinhardt Establishes 5 new “Death Camps” (no labor):
1. TREBLINKA
2. SOBIBOR
3. BELZEC
4. MAJDANEK
5. CHELMNO
And expands AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU
Jews transported to camps by TRAINS (CATTLE CARS)

30. Trains transported Jews to camps

32. Zyklon-B Gas Chambers
Auschwitz

36. Identifying the prisoners
Jews were given 2 black and yellow triangles
Together they formed the 6-pointed Star of David

37. Identifying the prisoners
Green = professional criminal
Pink = homosexual
Brown = gypsy
Violet = Jehovah’s Witness
Black = “a-social” (alcoholic or prostitute)

38. “Canada”

39. 11. Then the Jews (and others) Fight back, 1943-44
1. WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING (first incident of resistance to Nazi rule

40. 11. Resistance continued…
2. HUNGARIANS REFUSE TO GIVE UP THEIR JEWS.
3. DENMARK FERRIES 8000 JEWS TO SWEDEN
4. FRANCE HIDES CHILDREN IN CONVENTS.

41. 12. What the Allies knew… 1944, the ALLIES find out about AUSCHWITZ.
What do they do?
NOTHING
Most killed this year,
a day, crematoria could not
keep up and had to dig large
pits and burn bodies.

42. 13. The End 1. Jan. 27, 1945 AUSHWITZ is liberated
2. April 1945, HITLER commits suicide
3. May, 1945 WAR is over in Europe
4. NUREMBERG Trials
However, 6 MILLION of Europe’s 11 MILLION Jews are dead.

43. Liberation

44. Nuremburg Trials –