1. Chapter 24 Section 2 The United States in World War II Riddlebarger
The Holocaust
Chapter 24
Section 2
The United States in World War II
Riddlebarger

2. First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller, German pastor who turned when Hitler wanted state before religion.

3. The Holocaust Introduction Origins of the Holocaust Implementation
Anti-Semitism
2 strands of Nazism
Intentionists vs. Functionalists
Implementation
4 Phases
Final Solution
American Response
Liberation
Nuremberg Trials

4. Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel
Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the hell of war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin?
Quote from “Hitler”, by Joachim Fest p , 1974

5. Introduction

6. From wiki

7. Origins of the Holocaust

8. 2 strands of Nazism

9. Stage One: Preliminary (1933-1940)
Kristallnacht

10. Jewish Ghettos
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11. Stage 2: Transitional 1940-42 Liquidation
Jews, Communists in Soviet Union
Concentration Camps Constructed

12. Stage 3: Main Phase 1942-1944: The Final Solution
Systematic Elimination

13. now go in hand with the destruction of
World Jewry will suffer a great catastrophe at the same time as Bolshevism. The Fuhrer once more expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will
now go in hand with the destruction of
our enemies. We must hasten this
process with cold ruthlessness.
Propaganda leader in Nazi Germany. Fuhrer successor. Had his 6 children killed before he and his wife took their lives. The Goebbels diaries, p. 86, 1948
Joseph Goebbels, Reich Propaganda Minister.

14. Where did the greatest losses of life take place during the Holocaust?

15. In Aushwitz, a warehouse of clothes belonging to murdered women.

16. American Response

17. U.S. liberation of Buchenwald

18. Nuremberg Trials
Hermann Geoering