1. The Holocaust

2. Nuremberg Laws 1935 Nuremburg Laws strip Jews of civil rights
Jewish race is defined through ancestry, not self-identity or religious practice

3. Nuremburg Laws
Jews are banned from owning land, publishing newspapers, serving in the military, marrying non-Jews, teaching, and practicing medicine or law

4. Nuremburg Laws Nazis begin a boycott of Jewish businesses
Businesses are marked with window signs, SS troops guard Jewish stores to discourage shoppers

5. Nuremburg Laws
Jews are forced to register with the government & receive identity cards
All Jewish passports are stamped with red “J”s

6. Nuremburg Laws
German schools teach “Racial Hygiene” classes that spread myths about Jews

7. The Final Solution
Nazis plan to separate and exterminate Jewish Europeans
Nov. 23, 1939 Jews are ordered to identify themselves by wearing the yellow Star of David at all times

8. The Final Solution
Jews are stripped of their homes and property and sent to live in ghettos in the major Polish cities
Ghettos are walled off and Jews are permitted to leave only during prescribed times

9. The Final Solution
The Germans struggle with a way to rid Germany of “impure” elements so that a master race of Aryans can be created

10. The Final Solution
Killings start with mentally & physically handicapped patients in hospitals; forced sterilization and abortions are performed on those who aren’t killed

11. The Final Solution
Others deemed impure to the Aryan master race include:
Homosexuals
Communists
Catholics
Jehovah's Witnesses
Gypsies
Polish & Soviet POWs

12. Einsatzgruppen
Units of soldiers follow invading German troops and execute the Jewish population by gunfire
Approx. 1.5 million Jews are executed
The slow pace and mental toll on the soldiers requires a new method

13. Gas Vans
1941 the Germans switch to massive box trucks where re-circulated exhaust kills Jews locked in the cargo hold
The trucks are wasteful and unreliable and are put out of use when Chelmno, the 1st death camp opens at the end of 1941

14. Concentration Camps
Concentration camps provide a place to locate prisoners to be used as slave labor
Factories are often built adjacent to the camps for prisoners to work in

15. Concentration Camps
Healthy are sorted from unhealthy (sick, elderly, children, etc.) upon arrival
Property & clothes are taken
Prisoners are shaved
Dentists extract gold/silver fillings

16. Concentration Camps
Healthy prisoners are housed in barracks and used for slave labor in nearby factories or on government projects

17. Death Camps
Jan Wannasee Conference sets a goal of killing all 11 million European Jews
Will then move on to other groups (i.e. 30 million Slavs) to make a pure Aryan Germany

18. Death Camps
Several death camps were constructed throughout eastern Europe, and industrialized models were used to quickly transport, destroy, and dispose of the Jewish population

19. Death Camps
Those too unhealthy or unable to work (elderly, children) are sent to gas chambers disguised as “showers”

20. Death Camps The corpses are burnt in crematory built within the camps
The ashes are used to make soap and other products for the camps or are dumped in pits and waterways

21. Total Costs Holocaust Dead: Jews – 6,000,000 Soviet POWs – 3,000,000
Polish Catholics – 3,000,000
Serbians – 700,000
Gypsies – 250,000
German Political Prisoners – 80,000
German Handicapped – 70,000
Homosexuals – 12,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses – 2,500
Total – 13.1 Million