1. WWII Atrocities: The Holocaust

2. What do you know about the Holocaust?

3. What do you want to know about the Holocaust?

4. What is the Holocaust?
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews and minorities by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
2/3 of European Jews Killed- 6 million

5. What caused the Holocaust?
Hitler’s View of Race
Anti-Semitism
Nazi Propaganda
WWII

6. What caused the Holocaust?
Hitler’s Race Beliefs:
Behavior is linked to race, people of certain races can not change
“Social Darwinism” strongest race will survive-naturally leads to war
Against race mixing- will taint gene pool
obligation of society to rid world of inferior races

7. Hitler’s Anti-Semitism
Believed all non-Aryan races were “bad”
“Jewish Race”- was the primary enemy tainting German blood
Minorities: anyone who exhibits bad behaviors is included: gypsies, disabilities, Polish, Soviets, Communist, Afro-Germans, homosexuals, alcoholics, Muslims…

8. Aryan Race Ideal- Germanic race
Must cleanse this race: weed out disabled, low level, low achieving, deviant.
Acquire new living space to allow expanded birthrate for German’s to survive as a master race.

9. Nazi Propaganda Promote Belief in Superiority
Dehumanize minorities- differ guilt
Its ok to…
Separate, Kill and steal from someone who threatens you!

10. Nazi Propaganda
“….Aryan German would have to expand and dominate, a process requiring the elimination of all racial threats– especially the Jews--- or else they would face extinction themselves…”
Paraphrased from Adolf Hitler

11. Nazi Propaganda

14. The 3 Phases of the Holocaust: Persecution ----- Segregation ---- Extermination
Step 1: Persecution
1933- Nazi’s seize control
State sponsored anti-Jewish laws, boycotts of businesses, were stars and tags
Gestapo& S.S. led terror
Kiristallnacht-”Night of Broken Glass”
Nov. 9-10, Hitler’s armies invaded Jewish stores, and houses and shipped to concentration camps
130,000 Jews fled Germany

17. The 3 Phases of the Holocaust: Persecution ----- Segregation ---- Extermination
Segregation and Imprisonment
After invasion of Poland- crimes increased
Hitler inherited millions of Jews from military conquest
Ghettos
sections of cities sectioned off
Overcrowded, unsanitary & inadequate food
Many would die in ghettos or be shipped to Concentration Camps

19. The 3 Phases of the Holocaust: Persecution ----- Segregation ---- Extermination
Invasion of SU, situation worsened
SS- “Einsatzgruppen”
Mobile Killing Units
Murder political and/or racial enemies
Firing Squads; Mobile Gas Chamber Trucks

20. The 3 Phases of the Holocaust: Persecution ----- Segregation ---- Extermination
Concentration Camps
Prisons for Jews, minorities, prisoners of war
Work camps
Mainly in Poland

22. The 3 Phases of the Holocaust: Persecution ----- Segregation ---- Extermination
“Final Solution”
July 31, Hitler tells SS General Heydrich to …”make preparations and implementation of a complete solution to the Jewish Question.”
Created Killing Centers

23. The 3 Phases of the Holocaust: Persecution ----- Segregation ---- Extermination
Killing Centers
Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Aushwitz II
Use gas chambers- Zyklon B
Sytematic Killing Centers
Jews arrive by train, separate, disrobing area, gas chamber, crematorium
Aushwitz killed 12,000 Jews/ day= total 1.5 million

25. Liberation US/ Soviet Troops find camps as German’s retreat
Death Marches
Horrors of Camps Reach America

28. German’s Forced to See the Horrors

29. 12 Nazi Leaders order to Death Penalty