1. Chapter 16: WWII & It's Aftermath
Section 3: The Holocaust

2. The Holocaust
Schutzstaffel = Security Squadron (SS)
Rounded up the Jews

3. Persecution Begins
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4. Persecution Begins
HOLOCAUST
The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, ½ were Jews
RACIAL PURITY

5. Persecution Begins JEWS TARGETED (543)
Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust, but they were the main targets of the Nazis
Anti-Semitism = hatred of Jews
Hitler said the Jews were responsible for Germany’s economic problems and Germany’s defeat after WWI

6. Persecution Begins JEWS TARGETED (con’t)
Nuremberg Laws – stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property
Jews had to wear bright yellow Star of David

7. Persecution Begins Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass” (543)
November 9-10, 1938
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction

8. Persecution Begins A FLOOD OF JEWISH REFUGEES (543-544)
Jews fleeing Germany had trouble finding nations to accept them
France said NO
Britain said NO
USA said NO because Americans worried that Jews would take their Jobs
Also, Americans worried that the Jews were “enemy agents”

9. Persecution Begins THE PLIGHT OF THE ST. LOUIS (544)
St. Louis was a German ocean liner
The St. Louis brought Jews to America but America refused and told them to go back to Europe
When the ship got back to Europe ½ of the passengers were killed in the Holocaust

10. Hitler's "Final Solution"
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11. Hitler's "Final Solution"
THE FINAL SOLUTION
Genocide – the killing of all Jews in EUROPE not just in Germany

12. Hitler's "Final Solution"
THE CONDEMNED (545)
Jews
Communists, socialists, liberals
Anyone who spoke out against the German Government

13. Hitler's "Final Solution"
THE CONDEMNED (con’t)
Gypies – Nazis said they were an inferior race
Freemasons – Nazis said they were part of the “Jewish Conspiracy” to rule the world
Jehovah’s Witnesses – would not join German army or salute Hitler

14. Hitler's "Final Solution"
THE CONDEMNED (con’t)
Homosexuals, mentally ill, incurably ill, and the physically disabled
Hitler felt the above groups were unfit for the master “Aryan Race”

15. Hitler's "Final Solution"
FORCED RELOCATION (545)
Jews were ordered to live in the ghettos
The ghettos were sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls

16. Hitler's "Final Solution"
CONCENTRATION CAMPS (546)
They were labor camps
Families were separated
Those put in the camps worked from dawn to dusk
If you were too weak to work you were killed

17. THE FINAL STAGE
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18. THE FINAL STAGE Concentration Camps
Murder by poison gas started in 1942

19. THE FINAL STAGE MASS EXTERMINATIONS (547-548)
Germans built six death camps in Poland
Auschwitz was the largest death camp
USED
Poison Gas, 12,000 killed a day
You were shot, hanged, or injected with poisonous gas
Medical Experiments were performed on the Jews

20. THE FINAL STAGE THE SURVIVORS (549)
Roughly six million Jews died in the death camps
Some Jews escaped through the help of ordinary people who were appalled by the Nazis

21. THE END