1. Chapter 24, Section 3
“The Holocaust”

2. What factors led to the Holocaust?

3. Nazi Persecution of the Jews
Holocaust ----Nazis killed around 6 million Jews
Other groups killed---considered inferior
Disabled
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Slavic peoples
Jews discriminated against
Couldn’t own land
All Jewish were considered evil
Sept. 1935: Nuremberg Laws passed
Took citizenship away
Banned marriage between Jews and Germans
Could not hold public office/vote

5. Nazi Persecution
November 7, 1938: Jewish refugee killed German diplomat
Hitler ordered retaliation-random attacks against Jews
November 9-Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”)
Violence did not stop---Gestapo arrested Jews, confiscated possessions/insurance
Jews: ordered to pay for all damages
Jews: decided it was time to leave---come to U.S.
Map of Jews Fleeing Germany
Video on Jews coming to the United States
Many did not receive visas
Reasons:
Could not take more than $4 out of Germany
Countries refused to accept Jewish immigrants
Laws (U.S.) restricted granting a visa to poor people (left w/ no $)
High unemployment rates
*May 27, 1939: SS St. Louis-Havana, Cuba---Jewish hoped to get to U.S.-Cuban govt. revoked visas---couldn’t enter U.S.
*had to go back home---part of the “final solution”

6. The Final Solution
January 20, 1942: Nazi leaders met at Wannsee Conference---determine final solution for Jews
1. Made plans to get all Jewstake them to concentration camps
Work as slaves
Buchenwald-1st and largest
200,000 prisoners worked 12-hour shifts
Died from exhaustion/bad conditions
2. Those elderly, ill, etcsent to extermination camps
-built to kill Jews more efficiently
-Treblinka and Auschwitz (gassed 12,000/day)
-1,600,000 people died at Auschwitz
*most of Jewish population had been wiped out

7. Auschwitz body pile

9. Jewish Resistance Warsaw Uprising
Hitler wanted ghettos, including Warsaw, liquidated.
In April 1943, Jews learned of this deportation to death camps, and formed a resistance.
On April 19th roughly 750 Jews faced more than 2,000 German troops supported by artillery.
General Jurgen Stroop ordered the ghetto to be burned building by building.
Resistance lasted until May 16th
300 Germans killed 7,000 Jews killed

10. Questions over the Holocaust
Give one reason for the Holocaust.
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Why did many Jews choose to stay in Germany?
Explain Kristallnacht.
What was the Final Solution?
Why couldn’t Jews on the SS St. Louis come to America?