1. WWII Second Quarter Mr. Glay
The Holocaust
WWII Second Quarter
Mr. Glay

2. Wednesday January 25, 2012 Seating Chart / attendance
Collect registration cards for H.S.
Take notes about the Holocaust in our ISN’s.
Watch a short clip on the Holocaust (If time allows)

3. Objective
To be able to define what the Holocaust is and briefly explain what took place in Germany between

4. Warm Up Questions What do you know about the Holocaust?
Name two or three groups of people that were persecuted during this time period.
How were the German concentration camps different than the Japanese American Internment camps? How were they similar?

5. Holocaust defined
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life.
The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II.

6. Definition of Genocide
Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
Examples include……Jews, Pols, Gypsies, Soviets, the disabled and elderly, gay, and mentally ill during WWII.
The genocide of Rwandan Tutsis in 1994.

7. WWII Camps Concentration Camp = Labor camp. People worked to death.
Death Camp = Camp meant to kill as many as possible.

8. Dachau
In 1933 the Nazis began intensifying acts of violence to wreak havoc among the opposition. With the cooperation of local authorities, they set up camps as concentration centers within Germany. One of the first was Dachau, which opened in March These early camps were meant to hold, torture, or kill only political prisoners, such as Communists and Social Democrats.

9. ROUNDED UP

10. GHETTOS

11. Ghetto’s
After the invasion of Poland, the German Nazis established ghettos in which Jews and some Romani were confined, until they were eventually shipped to death camps to be murdered. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest, with 380,000 people
From 1940 through 1942, starvation and disease killed hundreds of thousands. Over 43,000 residents of the Warsaw ghetto died there in 1941.

14. NOTES
After the war starts the Nazis come up with the Final Solution 100% elimination of all Jews.
At first, mass executions. At Babi Yar, 100,000 Jews, mostly Russian were shot.

15. Waiting to Die
A mother and her two children waiting with other Jews. Everyone in the photo was shot by the SS.

17. Another mass execution A German soldier readies to shoot a Jewish man in the head.

18. Jews were shot and pushed into mass graves
Jews were shot and pushed into mass graves. The Germans felt that this wasted too many bullets and too much time
Instead of shooting them Germans decided to gas and incinerate the bodies.

19. Notes
Nazi’s come up with death camps to kill as many Jews and others as possible.
Treblinka: A death camp where 30,000 could be gassed to death in a day.

20. Auschwitz death camp

21. Dachau

23. 60,000 RM is what this person with genetic defects costs the community during his lifetime. Fellow German, that's your money too!”

24. Dachau

25. Crematoriums
Crematoria ovens in Buchenwald concentration camp.

26. The gassed bodies were burned in ovens.

27. Experiments on Jewish Children

28. Jews liberated by Americans

29. American General tours a liberated death camp

30. Nuremberg Trials
Nazi and Japanese leaders are put on trial for crimes. Starting with the Nuremberg Trials: Top 21 Nazis put on trial.
It was held from November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946.

31. Misc Pictures

32. Summary Questions What is a Genocide?
Name a German Concentration camp?
What was Hitler’s Final Solution?
Briefly explain the Holocaust in two or three sentences. What was it, why did it happen, how can we prevent another from happening.