1. THE HOLOCAUST PART II 1942 - 1945

2. THE FINAL SOLUTION WHEN? 1939-45 WHERE? APPLIED TO ALL NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE AREAS? DEPENDED ON SIZE OF NAZI CONQUESTS Ex: GREATEST EXTENT OF NAZI OCCUPATION IS 1942 HOW? MASS EXECUTUION GHETTO ISOLATION OF JEWS, ETC. FORCED LABOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS EXTERMINATION CAMPS WHO’S TARGETED? ALL UNTERMENSCHEN (DEFINE) JEWS HOMOSEXUALS GYPSIES PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY DISABLED COMMUNISTS

3. THE FINAL SOLUTION A. AREAS HARDEST HIT: 1. EASTERN EUROPE: -Poland -Russia 2. GERMANY B. WHY?: 1. THOSE AREAS HAD HIGHEST POPULATION OF JEWS, OR… 2. THOSE AREAS WERE MORE EASILY INVADED EARLY IN WAR C. WHO CONDUCTED MOST OF THE FINAL SOLUTION? 1. S.S. (Schutzstaffel) CAMP GUARDS 2. S.S. “EINZATSGRUPPEN” (“Special Action Groups”) 3. “WAFFEN – S.S.” (SS Front line combat units) 4. POLICE IN CONQUERED TERRITORIES 5. “GESTAPO” UNITS - German Secret Police ***MOST EXTERMINATION / FINAL SOLUTION ACTIONS WERE DONE BY S.S. GROUPS

4. THE WANSEE CONFERENCE WHAT? MEETING / CONFERENCE OF TOP NAZI OFFICIALS TO DECIDE & ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: HOW COULD THE EXTERMINATION OF EUROPEAN JEWS BE MADE MORE “EFFICIENT”? HOW WOULD “FINAL SOLUTION” PLANS BE IMPLEMENTED IN FUTURE CONQUERED TERRITORY? WHEN? JANUARY, 1942 WHERE? WANSEE, BERLIN, GERMANY WHO? KEY NAZI & SS. LEADERS EXAMPLE: REINHARD HEYDRICH, ADOLF EICHMANN WHY? HIMMLER WANTED EXTERMINATION METHODS TO BE IMPROVED & ACCELERATED EFFECT? MORE JEWS WERE MOVED DIRECTLY TO EXTERMINATION / DEATH CAMPS SOME CAMPS WERE ENLARGED FOR MORE KILLING SOME CAMPS WERE CONVERTED FROM LABOR TO EXTERMINATION CAMPS RESULT? HOLOCAUST ACCELERATED

5. REICHSFUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER, LEADER OF THE S.S.

6. HIMMLER (left) AND HITLER (right)

7. REINHARD HEYDRICH (right)

8. OBERGRUPPENFUHRER REINHARD HEYDRICH, S.S. a.k.a – “THE BLOND BEAST” HEAD OF S.S. SECURITY FORCES

9. ADOLF EICHMANN, S.S. DEPUTY HEAD OF THE S.S.

11. WANSEE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS, JANUARY, 1942

12. THE WANSEE “PROTOCOL”; DOCUMENT LISTING JEWISH POPULATION IN ALL EUROPEAN NATIONS

15. DEATH CAMPS DEATH CAMPS: CAMPS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THE MASS KILLINGS OF PRISONERS WHY? THE WANSEE CONFERENCE CALLED FOR GREATER “EFFICIENCY” IN THE KILLING OF JEWS, SLAVS, etc. EINSATZGRUPPEN KILLINGS WERE VIEWED AS INEFFICIENT & DEMORALIZING TO TROOPS WHERE? MOST DEATH CAMPS WERE IN EASTERN EUROPE (POLAND, RUSSIA) MOST NOTORIOUS: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU (POLAND) TREBLINKA (POLAND) SOBIBOR (POLAND) DACHAU (GERMANY) – ORIGINALLY A CONCENTRATION CAMP WHAT? KILLING METHOD: USUALLY TOOK ONE OF THREE FORMS: GAS CHAMBERS OVERWORK / STARVATION SUMMARY BEATINGS / SHOOTINGS RESULT? DEATH TOLL INCREASES RAPIDLY (AUSCHWITZ: 1.6 MIL. KILLED)

16. JEWS BEING SEPARATED INTO GROUPS AT RAIL DEPOT

18. JEWS AFTER ARRIVAL AT AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU EXTERMINATION CAMP

23. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF AUSCHWITZ- BIRKENAU CONCENTRATION CAMP

24. JEWISH CAMP LABORERS, AUSCHWITZ

27. INTERIOR, PRISONER BLOCK HOUSE, AUSCHWITZ

28. INTERIOR, PRISONER BLOCKHOUSE, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

30. CAMP SURVIVORS AFTER LIBERATION BY ALLIES

32. JEWISH WOMEN & CHILDREN BEING MOVED TO GAS CHAMBERS

33. GAS CHAMBER ENTRANCE (ONE OF THEM), AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

34. ENTRANCE TO AUSCHWITZ GAS CHAMBER

35. EXIT FROM GAS CHAMBER ROOM LOOKING TOWARD CREMATORIUM ROOM

39. CLOTHING OF GAS CHAMBER VICTIMS, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

41. GAS CHAMBER FROM ONE ENTRANCE, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

42. GAS CHAMBER ROOM WITH EXIT TO CREMATORIUM ON LEFT

43. ZYKLON-B CANISTER AND PELLETS

50. BODY BEING LOADED INTO CREMATORIUM OVEN

51. CONCENTRATION CAMP IDENTIFICATION TATTOO ON ARM OF SURVIVOR

52. CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR DISPLAYS HIS I.D. TATTOO

53. DR. JOSEF MENGELE, S.S. NAZI CAMP “DOCTOR” – a.k.a. “THE ANGEL OF DEATH”

54. MENGELE AND FELLOW S.S. OFFICERS, AUSCHWITZ

55. CAMP PRISONER BEING INFECTED WITH COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

56. CAMP PRISONER IN AIR CHAMBER, DR. MENGELE’s EXPERIMENTS UNIT, AUSCHWITZ

58. “Cold Water” Experiment on live prisoner, Auschwitz (note floating bocks of ice)

59. U.S. ARMY TROOPER WITH CAMP VICTIM REMAINS, APRIL, 1945

60. U.S. ARMY TROOPERS & OFFICERS SURVEY CAMP VICTIM REMAINS, APRIL, 1945

61. U.S. ARMY OFFICERS & TROOPS WITH CAMP SURVIVORS

64. BRITISH TROOPS BURY VICTIM REMAINS BERGEN- BELSEN DEATH CAMP, 1945

65. RED ARMY DOCTORS ATTENDING TO CAMP SURVIVORS, APRIL, 1945

66. AFTER THE HOLOCAUST RESULTS: MOST EUROPEAN JEWS ARE… KILLED DISPLACED MANY EMIGRATE FROM EUROPE TO… N.AMERICA ISRAEL/PALESTINE “ZIONISTS” NOW MAKE STRONGER EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH STATE OF ISRAEL EUROPEAN JEWISH POPULATION IS DECIMATED TOTAL KILLED: APPROXIMATELY 6 MILLION

67. CHILD CONCENRATION CAMP SURVIVOR, NAMED “TERESKA”, DRAWING A PICTURE OF HOME ON BLACKBOARD, POLAND, 1948