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1 The Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire; any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life

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6 “”First set fire to their synagogues or schools…Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed…instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies…Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them….Fourth I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb…Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews…let them stay at home.” Martin Luther, On Jews and Their Lies, 1543

7 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

8 Henry Ford

9 Alfred Sloan & G.M. Motors

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11 1933- 1945 Beer Hall Putsch Nov. 9, 1923

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14 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF “Mein Kampf” means “My Struggle”; Hitler wrote it while in prison in the 1920’s Still banned in most European countries Given to every newly married German couple from the late 1930’s onward Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF

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16 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor

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18 1933- 1945 March 22, 1933 Dachau Concentration Camp built

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20 1933- 1945 May 10, 1933 Book Burnings

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22 Historical Film Footage of book burning in Berlin Historical Film Footage of book burning in Berlin

23 1933- 1945 Night of the Long Knives June 30, 1934

24 "If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people." "It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

25 1933- 1945 Sept. 10, 1935 Nuremberg Laws

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29 1933- 1945 August 1-16, 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin

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31 Historical Film Footage of 1936 Olympics in Berlin

32 1933- 1945 October 1938 Deportations Begin

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34 1933- 1945 November 7, 1938 Assassination of Ernst Vom Rath

35 'Being a Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I have a right to live and the Jewish people have a right to exist on this earth. Wherever I have been I have been chased like an animal.' 9 -- Herchel Grynszpan

36 1933- 1945 November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht

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40 American Response to Kristallnacht Historical Film Footage

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42 1933- 1945 May 1939 S.S. St. Louis

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44 American Video about the SS St. Louis Historical Film Footage from USHMM

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46 1933- 1945 Sept. 1, 1939 WWII Begins: Germany attacks Poland

47 Hitler speaks before the German Parliament Historical Film Footage from the USHMM

48 1933- 1945 October 1939 Euthanasia Program targets the handicapped

49 Adolf Hitler's authorization for the Euthanasia Program (Operation T4), signed in October 1939 but dated September 1, 1939. __________ National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

50 Buses used to transport patients to Hadamar euthanasia center. The windows were painted to prevent people from seeing those inside. Germany, between May and September 1941. __________ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden

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52 1933- 1945 Summer 1941 Killing Squads “Einsatzgruppen”

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56 1933- 1945 December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

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58 Attack on Pearl Harbor Historical Film Footage from USHMM

59 1933- 1945 January 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference

60 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of SD (Security) Service

61 1933- 1945 February 19, 1942 Executive Order 9066: Camps for Japanese in America

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64 1933- 1945 Summer 1942 Deportations to camps begin

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70 1933- 1945 April-October 1943 Rebellion

71 Treblinka under attackTrain tracks leading into Sobibor

72 1933- 1945 December 1944 Death Marches

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74 1933- 1945 January-May 1945: Liberation

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80 1933- 1945 April 30, 1945 Death of Hitler

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82 1933- 1945 May 8, 1945 Surrender of Germany

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84 1933- 1945 October 18, 1945- October 1, 1946 Nuremberg Trials

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86 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Guilty: 12- sentenced to death; 3- life imprisonment; four- 10-20 years in prison Innocent: 3 were acquitted Nuremberg Trial Convictions

87 1933- 1945 May 14, 1948 Israel: A New State

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89 1933- 1945 “Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the things your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children, and to your children’s children.” Deuteronomy 4:9


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