Transcript The Holocaust

THE HOLOCAUST
WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST?
• The Holocaust was a deliberate, systematic murder of
6 million of Jews, in Europe.
• The Holocaust is considered a genocide, which is the
systematic murder of a group of people based on race,
religious beliefs, or ethincity.
HITLER’S PLAN FOR GERMANY
• In Mein Kampf (1925),
Hitler described a racial
hierarchy with:
• Aryans (Germans) at
the top
• Jews, Africans, and
Gypsies (the culturedestroying races) at the
bottom.
HITLER’S PLAN OF ACTION
• The Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933
and slowly began their program against the Jews of
Germany.
• In 1933 there were 566,000 Jews living in Germany.
• Each new year in Germany led to harsher policies
directed towards the Jews.
HITLER’S GOALS
• Hitler's goal was to
remove the inferior
types from Germany,
making more lebensraum
(living space) for the
superior Aryans.
• The Jews were the
special object of his
hatred.
• Hitler utilized different
methods of
propaganda, which is a
form of communication
used to influence
opinions about groups
of people.
• Jews were blamed for
all of the problems
facing Germans.
From an anti-Semitic children's book. The
sign reads "Jews are not wanted here"
DISCRIMINATION OF THE JEWS
• Jews were required to register and wear the Star of
David.
• Nazis stage boycotts of Jewish businesses.
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935:
• Denied Jews of rights of citizenship and voting
• Prohibited marriage with Aryans
• Prohibited employment of Aryans as household help
KRISTALLNACHT
• In November of 1938, the "night of broken glass,"
many Jewish businesses, synagogues and homes were
destroyed by mobs of people fired by propaganda and
fueled by their own prejudice and ignorance.
JEWISH GHETTOS
• By 1939, Jews were forced to relocate to ghettos , the
poorest, most dilapidated parts of cities.
• Overcrowding and diseases spread throughout the
community with little sanitation, food, or education.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
• From the ghettos, Jews were then forced on ships and
trains are sent to concentration, or work camps
throughout Europe.
• On arrival, prisoners were stripped of their
possessions, identity and clothes, given uniforms and a
number was tattooed on their arm.
• Prisoners would be shot or tortured for the slightest
problem or used for medical experiments.
• Those who were unfit to work, such as the elderly,
women, children, or the sick were sent to extermination
camps, where they were gassed.
• The gas chamber was used in the extermination camps
such as Auschwitz.
EINSATZGRUPPEN
• Not all Jews were killed in concentration camps, but
also mobile killing units known as Einsatzgruppen..
• They were squads composed primarily of German SS
and police personnel, whose tasks was to murder
those perceived to be racial or political enemies of the
state, including Jews, gypsies, the mentally and
physically disabled.
• In 1945 the camps were liberated.
• In the last days the Nazis were still unwilling to give up
the plan to exterminate the Jews. They either executed
Jews in the camps as they abandoned them, deathmarched them into the interior of Germany, or cut off
food and water, leaving them to die.
MASS GRAVES