Transcript The Terrors of WWII

The Holocaust
“Getting rid of the Jews”
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With persecution bound to get worse,
many Jewish people emigrated to
surrounding countries
 Britain, France, U.S., Latin America
However, many stayed behind in
Germany
 Hitler decided to isolate these Jews
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 Moved them to ghettos
The Ghetto
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Hitler mainly sent Jewish people to
Poland cities, where they were forced to
live together in ghettos
Hitler’s “Final Solution”
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Tired of waiting for the Jews to die
from starvation and disease in
ghettos
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Wanted to perform genocide
 Genocide - The systematic killing
of an entire religion, ethnicity, or
nationality
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Wanted to make a “master race” of
Aryans (blonde hair blue eyes)
Concentration Camps
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During Hitler’s invasion of Poland, he sent
his “secret police” (S.S.) to hunt for Jewish
people
 Shot and killed many
Sent entire communities to Concentration
Camps
 Concentration Camp – slave labor prison
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 Would do the work of German businesses
 Killed if worked too slow
What is this?
Map of death camps
Extermination camps
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1942 – Nazis built 6 “Extermination” Camps
 The “final stage” of the “Final Solution”
 The largest of these was Auschwitz
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Day 1: separate the strong from the weak
 Sent all women, young children, and elderly folk
to gas chambers
 Bodies would then be incinerated
Gas chambers
Death toll
Over 6 million Jewish people died
during Hitler’s reign
 Less than 4 million European Jews
survived during the Holocaust
 Chart on Pg. 834 in textbook
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Many survivors were smuggled into
neutral countries like Sweden and
Switzerland