1. The Nazis and the Holocaust

2. Mizell, Matthew. “Title of Presentation
Mizell, Matthew. “Title of Presentation.” Paisley Magnet School, Winston-Salem, NC. Date

3. EQs: (1) What conditions led to the Holocaust
EQs: (1) What conditions led to the Holocaust? (2) What was the global response? (3) What were the effects?

4. Holocaust – destruction by fire

6. A History of Anti-Semitism
Where did it all start?
Around 2000 BC, Jews introduced monotheism (one god) into a polytheistic (many gods) world
They claim to be God’s Chosen People
This stirs resentment and Jews are seen as “others”

7. Christian and European Civilization
For hundreds of years Christian Europe had regarded the Jews as the Christ -killers.
Jews are forced to leave countries, persecuted, killed throughout history
500 – 1500 AD – creation of Jewish ghettoes

8. Why the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Germany?
Germany was a powerful country by 1900
However, they lose WWI, punished severely, and their economy tanks.
Big Question: How could this have happened
Hitler and Nazis use Jews as scapegoats – blaming them
To make Germany stronger, need to “purify” the German race (kill the Jews)

9. Nazism = fascism + racism
Nazi Beliefs
Nazism = fascism + racism
Jews are not German, do not belong in Germany, and are sub-human

10. Nazi Race Hierarchy Chart
Aryan Nordic Race - German
Non-Aryran Nordic Race : Western/Northern European (France, Britain, Norway, US)
Non-Nordic Caucasians: Southern Europe (Italian, Greek, etc…); Latin America
Persians (the Middle East), Japanese, Chinese, etc…
Africans, Slavic people in Eastern Europe, Russians
Jews

11. Anti-Jewish Propaganda
Indoctrinate population
Portray Jews as corrupt, selfish, evil, sub-human
Teach Anti-Semitism in schools
Portray pure Germans as stronger and smarter

12. Nazi Propaganda

13. Nuremburg Laws (1935) Denied citizenship to Jews Segregated Jews
Banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews
Jews had to wear yellow Star of David so they could be identified

15. Directions Place quiz on chair
Work on Atomic Bomb sheet from Wednesday or the Holocaust sheet from yesterday.
Turn them in when completed

16. Kristnallnacht (1938)
“Night of Broken Glass”
Nazi attack on Jewish businesses and synagogues in Germany

18. Jewish Removal from Society
Nazis wanted to isolate Jews from Germans
Placed them in Ghettos which were fenced off with walls/barbed wire
Favored them leaving the country

19. “The Jewish Question” Question: How to get rid of them?
In all the land taken by Nazi Germany
Answer: The Final Solution
Genocide = systematic killing of an entire people

20. How was the Final Solution implemented?
Death squads, mass shootings
Starvation, Gas Chambers
Concentration camps (Death camps and Work camps) – most in Poland
Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen

21. Righteous Among the Nations
Non-Jews that protected or helped Jews during the Holocaust
Raoul Wallenberg , Oskar Schindler, Dietrich Bonheoffer, Wijsmuller Gertruida
These people risked their lives to save thousands of Jews.
Yad Vashem – official memorial in Israel for the “Righteous Among the Nations”

26. A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS.
There were concentration camps and death camps. If you went to a death camp the chances of coming out alive were virtually nil.
Even at concentration camps though you were likely to die from the appalling conditions.
Or, if you were very young, old, or incapable of hard labour, it was likely you would be transferred to a death camp too.
Anne Frank died at Belsen from Typhoid.
Leonard Leher's mother and sisters were sent to Sobibor.
YOU MAY ASK "WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE SENT TO PLACES LIKE THIS?"
THEY WERE CHILDREN JUST LIKE YOU. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS THEIR RACE AND THE RELIGION THEY FOLLOWED.

27. Smoke rises as the bodies are burnt.
NO.
MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE MURDERED GREW ESPECIALLY HIGH, NAZIS BURNED THE BODIES.
SO WHAT OTHER METHODS WERE USED TO SYSTEMATICALLY MURDER THESE PEOPLE?

29. Bales of hair shaven from Jews at Auschwitz
After liberation, an Allied soldier displays a stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald.
THESE PICTURES SHOW WHAT THEY WANTED.
WERE THE NAZI'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS?
DID THEY NOT THINK ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF ALLIED COUNTRIES DISCOVERED WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

30. In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews exceeded 1 million
In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews exceeded 1 million. Nazis ordered the bodies of those buried to be dug up and burned to destroy all traces.
OBVIOUSLY TOWARDS THE END OF THE WAR THEY TRIED TO COVER THEIR TRACKS.
IT WAS NOT GUILT THOUGH AND THEY DID NOT DO THE WORK THEMSELVES. THEY MADE JEWS AND OTHER PRISONERS OF WAR DIG UP THE BODIES AND BURN THEM INSTEAD.
Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943 exhuming bodies in the ravine at Babi Yar, where the Nazis had murdered over 33,000 Jews in September of 1941.

33. 16 of the 44 children taken from a French children’s home.
They were sent to a concentration camp and later to Auschwitz.
ONLY 1 SURVIVED
HOW DID THEY KILL THESE INNOCENT CHILDREN, ALONG WITH THEIR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, FRIENDS ETC..
YOU WILL ALL HAVE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE WAY NAZiS GASSED THE JEWS.
A group of children at a concentration camp in Poland.

34. Nazis sift through a huge pile of clothes left by victims of the massacre.
Two year old Mani Halef’s clothes are somewhere amongst these.
GIVES SOME IDEA OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
BUT WHY DID THE NAZI WANT THEM TO REMOVE THEIR CLOTHES?
WHAT DID THEY WANT WITH THEIR JEWELLERY, CLOTHES, EVEN HAIR?

35. Between 1939 and 1945 six million Jews were murdered, along with hundreds of thousands of others, such as Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, disabled, and the mentally ill.

39. Percentage of Jews killed in each country
AUSTRIA 35%
POLAND 91%
USSR 36%
NORWAY 45%
BELGIUM 45%
LUXEMBOURG 55%
ESTONIA 44%
ROMANIA 84%
HUNGARY 74%
GREECE 87%
YUGOSLAVIA 81%
NETHERLANDS 71%
LATVIA 84%
How did they manage to get together all these Jews to kills them?
How did they kill them when they had them?
To begin with there were concentration camps.
LITHUANIA 85%
GERMANY 36%
FRANCE 22%
A Total of 6,000,000 Jews

40. Jewish Displacement Jews wonder where to go after WWII ends
Get out of Europe
Thousands will move to the U.S.
Creation of Israel in 1948
Most will move to Israel

42. Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. ~John F. Kennedy