1. Horrors of the Holocaust

2. Today’s Standard Essential Question
10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
What were the causes and effects of the Holocaust?
Essential Question

3. Setting the Stage Holocaust = Mass slaughter of European Jews
Germans call themselves Aryans they believe they’re Master Race
The Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Citizenship revoked; deprived of jobs & property; Star of David
Kristallnacht – Nov. 9, 1938
“Night of Broken Glass” – first organized and gov’t sanctioned violence against Jews.

4. Starving children in Warsaw ghetto
Flight & Isolation
Flood of Jewish refugees
Nations close doors
Euro. Jews isolated in “ghettos”
Ghettos were used to keep Jews separated from the rest of the population.
Sealed w/ barbed
wire & stone walls
Goal: starve or die from disease
Starving children in Warsaw ghetto

5. Hitler’s “Final Solution”
The Nazi plan to engage in a Genocide against the Jewish population
Genocide = systematic killing of an entire people
Targeted Jews, gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the disabled, & incurably ill
Mass executions, concentration camps, & death camps

6. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

10. Crematoria ovens in Buchenwald camp
Mass Exterminations
Final Stage = 1942 (Final Solution)
6 death camps in Poland
Gas chambers – 6,000 deaths a day
Poisoned with cyanide gas
Ovens used to burn bodies
Crematoria ovens in Buchenwald camp
Bodies at Buchenwald

11. Timeline for Nazi Extermination Camps

12. Auschwitz

13. The Holocaust and Resistance
Some Jewish resistance and help from non-Jewish people
Dietrich Bonhoeffer – famous Christian leader, part of Nazi resistance movement – executed for attempted to assassinate Hitler
Oscar Schindler – businessman who saved over 1,000 Jews
90% of Jews in Poland & Germany killed during Holocaust
6 Million Jews were murdered in Holocaust
6-9 Million additional people murdered in death and concentration camps as well.
Pols, homosexual, Russians, etc…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Oscar Schindler