1. THE HOLOCAUST WHAT- THE SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF GROUPS THE NAZIS VIEWED AS INFERIOR DURING WW II. EXAMPLES: JEWS, GYPSIES, SLAVS, THE HANDICAPPED

2. AT FIRST (1933-39) JEWISH BUSINESSES ARE BOYCOTTED JEWS LOSE ALL OF THEIR RIGHTS. JEWS & NON-JEWS ARE SEPARATED. JEWS ARE FORCED TO REGISTER & WEAR THE STAR OF DAVID ON THEIR CLOTHES.

3. KRISTALLNACHT On November 10, 1938 the Nazis Attack Jewish businesses & Synagogues on the “Night of Broken Glass”. Hundreds of Jews were killed.

4. In 1939 The Nazis begin the killing of the handicapped. The Nazis start forcing all Jews to relocate to the Ghettos.

5. MASS EXECUTIONS Nazi Killing Squads would round up inferiors, take them outside of town & shoot them, then burry them in mass graves. This was too slow & expensive.

6. THE FINAL SOLUTION The code name given to the Nazi plan to exterminate all Inferiors by sending them to Concentration Camps.

7. RESULTS OF THE HOLOCAUST Around 11 million died, including 6 million Jews. The word genocide will be used to describe this event. Many Nazi officials were executed for “war crimes” after the Nuremberg Trials.