1. The Holocaust
The Holocaust

2. Why the Jews?
Deicide – Christian church blamed the Jews for the death of Christ. The responsibility for the death of Christ is leveled on the Jewish people as a whole.

3. Blood libel and Little Sir Hugh of Lincoln
Why the Jews?
In the Middle Ages, Jews were accused of ritual murder and using the blood of Christian children, in their rituals.
The belief was circulated that Jews wanted to dishonor the Host (communion), believed to be the body of Christ.
Blood libel and Little Sir Hugh of Lincoln

4. If they were killed, then people did not have to pay back the debt.
Why the Jews?
The Jews were moneylenders – the only group that was allowed to loan money during the Middle Ages.
If they were killed, then people did not have to pay back the debt.

5. Why the Jews?
Expulsions – Jews were driven out of these European Nations during the Middle Ages. Their lands and assets were confiscated by the Crown.
England 1290
France 1394
Germany, Italy and the Balkan Peninsula – 1350 – 1450.

6. Why the Jews?

7. Why the Jews?
1349 – the event – the Black Death. The cause? The Jews of Strasbourg were poisoning the wells! For 6 six days straight, the Jews of Strasbourg were burnt alive. About a thousand Jews were killed.

8. Pogroms –a violent mob attack directed against the Jews.
Why the Jews?
Pogroms –a violent mob attack directed against the Jews.

9. In Germany, first they came for the communist and I did not speak out- because I was not communist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionist and I did not speak out- because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I did not speak out because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.” Pastor Martin Niemoller –prisoner

10. Jews
Jews were pictured as evil, sinister, money hungry people.They were also blamed for the death of Christ.

11. Nuremberg Laws Nuremberg Laws
Denaturalization laws passed by Nazi Germany in 1935.
Germans were not allowed to marry Jews, and all Jews were stripped of their rights as citizens.
The Nuremberg Chart above outlined Nazi Germany’s position on racial purity.

12. Nuremberg Laws
Nuremberg Laws
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13. Over 200,000 prisoners were housed here.
Dachau
Dachau
Camp records indicate that about 30,000 people were killed here. In addition, thousands more died due to the conditions of the camp. This camp also served as the central camp for many Christian religious prisoners. “Arbeit macht frei” – Sign that served as an entrance. Loosely translated it means, “Work brings freedom.”
1st Concentration style camp built in 1933 that served as a model for the other death camps.
Over 200,000 prisoners were housed here.

14. Damaged shop windows from Kristallnacht.
Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10, 1938 – the “Night of Broken Glass.” A night of terror organized by the Nazis where they carried out a deadly pogrom against the Jews of Germany.
The most significant pogrom in Nazi Germany was the Kristallnacht of 1938, in which at least 91 Jews were killed, a further 30,000 arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps,[7] over 1,000 synagogues burned, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.[8][9
Damaged shop windows from Kristallnacht.

15. The dots represent the synagogues destroyed.
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Jewish homes and stores were ransacked.
Jews were beaten to death; 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps; and 1,668 synagogues were set ablaze.
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The dots represent the synagogues destroyed.

16. Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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17. Kristallnacht Kristallnacht
The synagogue at Eberswalde, and men being readied for the camps.
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Synagogues were set ablaze, and 30,000 men were sent to the concentration camp at Buchenwald.

18. Reasons Why Hitler Wanted Russia Reasons Why Hitler Wanted Russia
Liebensraum – “Open Spaces” Hitler wanted places to settle and expand his new Aryan race.
Russia was also rich in natural resources- oil, timber, minerals, ore and wheat.

19. Liebensraum
Liebensraum
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20. Nazi Atrocities Nazi Atrocities
The Nazis viewed the Soviets as sub-human or “mongrel” races.
The Nazis raped, mutilated, and burned people to death in their own homes.
They rounded up entire populations and killed them.
SS Death Squads

21. Death squads killed thousands of Jews or sent them to camps.
Nazi Atrocities
Nazi Atrocities
Death squads killed thousands of Jews or sent them to camps.

22. The Einsatzgruppen - Mobile Death Squads
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23. Death -squads
Death -squads
Ukranian Jews
The mobile death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, killed East European Jews by the hundreds of thousands.

24. The Final Solution
The Final Solution
The Final Solution was the German plan for eliminating the entire population of Jews in Europe.
Heinrich Himmler

25. Death-trains
Gypsies
Children

26. Dachau
Dachau
Camps like Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Sobibor, and Majdanek were camps that killed up to 2,000 people a day. These were the death camps.

27. Auschwitz
Auschwitz
Photos of survivors who were liberated from this work and death camp.

28. Anne Frank and her family died here.
Auschwitz
Auschwitz
2.5 million Jews were gassed to death here while another 500,000 starved to death
Anne Frank and her family died here.

29. Buchenwald
Buchenwald

30. Bergen-Belsen
Bergen-Belsen
Mass Graves

31. Zyklon B was a rat poison. Crematoriums were used to bake the bodies.

32. Their hair was bundled up and used in the German war effort.
Buchenwald
Buchenwald
People who were sent to these camps were required to strip off their wedding rings, allow dentists to remove silver and gold fillings from their teeth, leave their shoes, and allow their heads to be shaved.
Their hair was bundled up and used in the German war effort.

33. Auschwitz
Auschwitz
Piles of shoes pictured above. Clothing warehouse – right Top right – bales of hair.

34. Buchenwald
Buchenwald

35. Buchenwald
Buchenwald

36. Punishment
Punishment
Accountability

37. Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials began on Nov. 20, Almost all of the accused were convicted and executed by hanging with a rope until dead.