1. The Final Solution Holocaust 1940 - 1945
Lecture # 4
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2. Standard
Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
Essential Question: What was the Final Solution and what was its impact on the Jews?

3. From the Ghettos… Nazi’s tricked the Jews
Relocated to a bigger, better place
Transported them in cattle cars
Nazi’s brainwashed w/ Anti-Semitic propaganda
Naked, dirty & half starved people looked like animals, reinforced Nazi propaganda
Training= Set fire to a pit full of live victims–usually children

4. Not just the Jews…
The Nazis believed that Jews, Gypsies, Polish, homosexuals, communist, the insane, the disabled, and the incurably ill had to be eliminated.
Camp selection= on arrival
Special treatment~ Women, children, the old & the sick (death immediately)
Work~ Men, boys (till death)
Those who were not killed by the SS units would be rounded up and taken to concentration camps or slave labor camps.

5. Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the power to do so, I will have gallows built in rows – at the Marienplatz in Munich, for example – as many as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink; they will hang there as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.

6. How the Camps Ran… Extermination camps with gas chambers
1st 6 death camps (Poland)
Sonderkommando
Jews that helped with the killing process (disposing of the corpses)

7. Nazi experiments Dr. Joseph Mengele~ Angel of death
Freezing / Hypothermia
Genetic Experiments
The twins, dwarfs, and unique physical specimens
Sterilization
Dr. Joseph Mengele~ Angel of death

8. Death Camps
The work of the
Einsatzgruppen

9. What does this look like?
Entrance to Auschwitz
Notice how it resembles a train station entrance
What does this look like?

10. The Gas Chambers & Ovens
hydrogen cyanide
Disguised as showers
2000 people at once

11. Dead bodies waiting to be processed
Shoes of Victims

12. Warsaw Camp Not all Jews went quietly into the gas chambers.
In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto revolted when they realized what was really happening but the Nazis ended the revolt quickly

13. Destruction Through Work
200 calories a day

14. Destruction Through Work
6 weeks later

15. Liberation
Soviet Troops are the first to liberate camps followed shortly by the U.S.
After WWII, the country of Israel was
created for the Jewish population

16. How many killed?
11 Million total people were killed during the Holocaust
6 million Jews
5 million others (Gypsies, Polish, homosexuals, communist, the insane, the disabled, and the incurably ill)

17. Jews Killed Under Nazi Rule
% surviving
population
Killed
3,300,00
300,000
10%
2,850,000
1,252,000
56%
240,000
200,000
650,000
450,000
30%
600,000
50%
Poland
USSR
Germany
Hungary
Romania