Transcript Steps Towards the Holocaust

Steps Towards the Holocaust
First Solution
• Remove Jews from the
economy and isolate
them within Germany.
• Feb. 1933: Emergency
Decree For the Protection
of People. The police
could arrest anyone they
considered anti-Nazi or a
political threat to the
State.
First Solution continued…
• April 1933: Restoration
of a Professional Civil
Service. Removed nonAryans from civil
service.
• April 1933: Law
Regarding Admission to
the Bar. Non-Aryans &
Pro-Communists
couldn’t practice law.
Sept. 1935: Nuremburg Laws
• Non-Aryans were no
longer citizens.
• Marriage between Aryans
and Non-Aryans
prohibited.
• Sexual relations between
Aryans and Non-Aryans
outlawed.
Second Solution
• Expel Jews from
Germany.
• Sent to ghetto’s.
• Sent to camps in
Occupied area’s.
Final Solution
The Extermination of
Jews in Europe.
• 1st stage:
– Einsatzgruppen: SS
squad that kill all Jews and
enemies to the State.
March 1941 - Nov.1942:
1.4 Million Dead.
– July 1941 Hermann
Goerring ordered to find
“final solution”.
Final Solution – 2nd Stage
• Move from Ghetto’s to Concentration
Camps
– 2 types
• Work Camp
• Death Camp
Work Camps
• Forced Slave Labor
– Camp Maintenance
– Weapons Production
– Hired out to German
companies
• The owners pay the
Nazi’s for the slave
labor
Death Camps
• Also used as work camps
• 3 main camps
– Treblinka
– Auschwitz
– Dauchua
• Prisoners separated according to who
would be a useful worker
– Those not useful would be killed
Medical Experiments
• Josef MengeleDoctor that performed
horrific “experiments”
on Jews and gypsies.
He worked in block 10
of Auschwitz. He was
nicknamed “the angel
of death”.
Gas Chambers Replace
Einsatzgruppen
• More efficient
• Impersonal
• Prisoners brought in for
“showers”
• Guard on top of building
would place chemical in
container and turn the
“shower” on
• Useful workers pick up
bodies and send them to
the ovens for disposal
Holocaust Death
Toll
• Over 11,000,000
people
• Over 6,000,000 of
them were Jewish