1. Agenda Warm Up Discussion: Beginning of the Holocaust
Video from Survivor
Video of the Camps
Photo Analysis Group Work
HW: Nazi Propaganda during the Holocaust

2. Warm Up
What were President Truman’s options for the final strike on Japan?
Describe Hitler’s death.

3. The Holocaust

4. Genocide
The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.
Examples:
Holocaust
Armenians by the Ottoman Empire
Stalin: Peasants, government and military leaders
Cambodia
Rwanda: Tutsi’s victims of Hutus

5. Why did Holocaust Happen?
Hitler’s Anti-Semitism
Totalitarianism combined with Nationalism
Economic depression blamed on Jews
Hitler’s belief in the master race

6. Nuremburg Laws
1935, all Jews barred from Civil Service, those positions going to Aryans.
Jews are no longer German citizens
They cannot associate with Aryans.
Later, required to wear the Star of David.

7. The Move to the Ghetto
Jews forced to move into ghettos, their homes and possessions for confiscation by the Nazi’s
Now they crowded into rooms that held up to 16 people when it should only hold two or three.

8. Final Solution The systematic killing of Jews.
General Einsatzgruppen utilized as mass killing squads.
Others rounded up and taken to Concentration Camps.
Beaten and killed when they did not work hard enough at the camps.

9. The Use of the Camps
By 1942 gas chambers were created, and death camps were common.
Auschwitz is the most notorious.
90% of Jewish population in Poland killed.

10. Off the Trains
Two lines, one to take a “shower” and the other to be numbered and put into the camp
The Jewish prisoners would remove all clothing, heads were shaved, and any valuables were taken (including fillings from teeth).
Then they were sent to work until they died from starvation or abuse from the guards.

11. Japanese Internment Camps
110, ,000 detained simply because of their race…
Reeducated kids, forced to work, 1,800 deaths
66% were American citizens, but they were forced into “internment camps” for the duration of the war.