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The Holocaust What is going on here?
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The Holocaust The sign says: “Jews are not wanted here.”
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The Holocaust The signs read: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews.“ What do you think they mean?
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The Holocaust What is happening here?
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The Holocaust What must these Jews be feeling as they are forced to leave their homes behind and board these trains for the unknown?
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The Holocaust Jews were forced to wear the “Star of David” whenever they were out in public. Why do you think the Germans made them do this?
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The Holocaust The following slides will show you the brutality of the German Nazis during World War II. Be prepared to answer the questions at the end of the slides in your notes.
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The Holocaust S.S. firing squad executing captured Jews.
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The Holocaust Nazi S.S. soldier executing mother and child.
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The Holocaust Nazi soldier executing Jewish man by mass grave.
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The Holocaust The railway entrance to Auschwitz. This was the first and last view many Jewish people would see of the concentration camp.
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The Holocaust The gates of Auschwitz. The sign says, “Work will make you free”
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The Holocaust Fences surround the concentration camp at Auschwitz. An estimated 2,500,000 people were exterminated at the camp. A row of chimneys tops the crematorium, where bodies were burned.
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The Holocaust This gas chamber was the largest room in Crematorium I at Auschwitz. The room was originally used as a mortuary but was converted in 1941 into a gas chamber where Soviet POWs and Jews were killed.
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The Holocaust Wedding rings taken from murdered Jews.
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The Holocaust Glasses taken from the dead.
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The Holocaust An oven in a concentration camp.
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The Holocaust Survivors in one of the concentration camps after
being freed by American soldiers.
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The Holocaust More survivors freed by American soldiers.
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Total killed in camps Total 11,265,000 Jews 6,000,000 Soviet POWs
3,000,000 Polish 2,000,000 Disabled 250,000 Homosexuals 15,000 Total 11,265,000
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The Holocaust Describe what you’ve just seen AND tell me why it is important for you to have seen it. Are the German soldiers that worked at these camps guilty of murder? Why?
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The Holocaust Should the German people be guilty of murder?
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