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HOLOCAUST The Final Solution 1933 - 1945
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HOLOCAUST RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF 6 MILLION JEWS 4-6 MILLION OTHERS (“INFERIORS” - SLAVS, GYPSIES, POLES, THE INSANE, POLITICAL PRISONERS) ANTI-SEMITISM - LONG HISTORY IN GERMANY AND EUROPE
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NUREMBERG LAWS - 1935 BOYCOTTS OF JEWISH BUSINESSES VOTING RIGHTS DENIED FORCED FROM JOBS PASSPORTS STAMPED WITH “J” MARRIAGE TO ARYANS FORBIDDEN EXPELLED FROM SCHOOLS STAR OF DAVID ON CLOTHING
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KRISTALLNACHT - 1938 “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS” SHOPS DESTROYED BUSINESSES LOOTED AND BURNED JEWS BEATEN DONE BY POLICE DRESSED AS CIVILIANS
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WAR ESCALATES WAR AGAINST JEWS WORSENS TRAPPED AND ISOLATED MORE RESTRICTIONS FORCED INTO GHETTOS FORCED LABOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS (Dachau – first camp)
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FINAL SOLUTION WANSEE CONFERENCE (1942) BELIEVED TO BE THE SITE OF THE PLAN TO ELIMINATE ALL JEWS IN EUROPE CODE WORDS - RELOCATION, WORK CAMPS, JEWISH PROBLEM GAS IS SUGGESTED - ZYKLON B - MORE EFFICIENT
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THE PROCESS GHETTOS EMPTIED - TOLD THEY WERE GOING TO WORK CAMPS THOUSANDS DIED FROM EXPOSURE, HUNGER, DISEASE SOME SENT IMMEDIATELY TO DEATH GUARDS - TORTURED & HUMILIATED
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THE PROCESS (CONT’D) WEAK WERE SENT TO “SHOWERS” WHERE THEY WERE GASSED SENT TO CREMATORIA (OVENS) GOLD FILLINGS, HAIR REMOVED PERSONAL BELONGINGS TAKEN HORRIBLE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS (DR. JOSEPH MENGELE)
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THE DEATH CAMPS Auschwitz (Poland) 2-21/2 million Chelmo Bergen-Belsen Mauthausen Sobibor Treblinka
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MISCELLANEOUS Theresienstadt – “model camp” to show Red Cross and press their wonderful conditions Sobibor – major successful revolt Warsaw Ghetto uprising – held off the German army for several weeks; eventually captured and killed
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Hitler and Goring
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Jews Forced to Wear Yellow Star
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A Star For The Children, Too
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Warsaw ghetto
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Child in ghetto factory
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Kristallnacht
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Hartheim euthanasia center
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Map of Camps
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Einsatzgruppen – Mobile Killing Squads
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Deportation to Auschwitz
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Train to the Death Camps
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Buchenwald
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Dachau
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“Shower”
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Ovens
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Belongings
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Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
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“Prisoners”
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Bergen-Belsen
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Buchenwald
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Victims of Buchenwald
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Buchenwald
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Liberation of Buchenwald
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Mass Graves for Prisoners
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Uncovered Grave
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Crematorium
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Liberation of Auschwitz
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Liberation of Dachau
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Madjanek gas canister
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Zyklon B cannisters
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Railway transport to camps
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Buchenwald
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Einsatzgruppen
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Auschwitz crematoria
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Dachau aerial view
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Photos taken by U.S. soldier
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U.S. Soldiers Execute Nazis
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Survivors!
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Nuremberg Trials
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