1. The Holocaust

2. What is the Holocaust?
Holocaust - The destruction of some 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe between the years
Other individuals and groups were persecuted and suffered grievously during this period, but only the Jews were marked for complete and utter extinction.

3. What is Genocide?
The Systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.
Some Past and Current Genocides:
The Holocaust
Soviet Ukraine
Cambodia
Rwanda
Yugoslavia
Darfur

4. Pyramid of Hate
This pyramid shows how hate can escalate into something more than just discrimination but into extermination.

5. Elements Leading to the Holocaust
Totalitarianism combined with Nationalism
History of Anti-Semitism
Defeat in World War I
Hitler’s belief in the Master Race

6. Totalitarianism
Centralized control by an autocratic authority and the political concept that the citizens should be totally subjected to an absolute state authority

7. Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nation; and a sense of national consciousness exalting ones nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.

8. Anti-Semitism
Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

9. Master Race
Used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of Non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features.
Blond hair and Blue eyes
Known as the Aryan Race
Chart Showing the Races of Germany

10. Nuremberg Laws Germany - 1935 Defined who was a Jew
Deprived Jews of political rights

13. Kristallnacht 1938 - Germany “Night of the Broken Glass”
Organized violence against Jews throughout Germany and Austria

15. The fire department only made sure the fire did not spread to the building next to the synagogue

16. View of the interior of the Essenweinstrasse synagogue in Nuremberg following its
destruction during Kristallnacht.

17. Ghettos 1939-45 - German occupied territories
Small areas of a city where Jews were isolated

20. Einsatzgruppen
Poland and Russia
Mobile Killing Squads

24. Final Solution
Ghettos
Camps
Transportation
Gas Chambers
Crematories

25. Transportation Systematic Deportation Boxcar 100+ people in one car
Doors were bolted shut
No place to sit down
Often people were forced to pay for their transportation
No food or water given.

26. Deportations 1939-1945 - Throughout Europe
Movement of Jews to ghettos and then to camps

28. Jews board a deportation train at the railroad station in Würzburg.

29. Hundreds of Jews wait to board deportation trains at the railroad station in Würzburg. Their luggage and bed rolls are piled in the center of the platform.

30. Concentration Camps Types of Camps Major Camps Concentration/Labor
Extermination/Death
Major Camps
Dauchau-Buchenwald
Auschwitz
Treblinkia
Bikenau
Types of Camps
Concentration camps
Forced labor
Life in the camp was terrible
There was overcrowding
Low food rations
Prisoners underwent interrogations to discover and information
Cruel medical experiments conducted

31. Camps 1939-1945 - Throughout Europe
Different types: labor camps, concentration camps, and death camps

34. “Work makes one free”

35. Gas Chambers Many victims did not know of their death
Gas Chambers were referred to as Baths/Showers
Zyklon B – was used as a poison
Millions of people came to their deaths.

36. Crematoriums Prisoners were forced to staff the crematoriums.
Their job was to remove all valuables from the victims.