2. The Persecution Begins
April 1933-Hitler orders all non-Aryans removed from government jobs
First move toward racial purity that would become the Holocaust-systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe-half of them Jews

3. Why the Jews?
Germans looking for a scapegoat to blame their problems on
Hitler blamed Jews for
German defeat in WWI
Economic problems
Many Germans ready to support him
Children were conditioned (brainwashed) into Nazi beliefs from an early age.   Here, a story book for small children stereotypes a Jew as a degenerate pervert.   Anti-Semitism came easily and naturally to children who had been brought up looking at this kind of picture.

4. Why the Jews? Persecution of Jews increased as Nazi power expanded
1935-Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of civil rights and property if they tried to leave Germany
Jews now had to wear a bright yellow Star of David on their clothing

6. Why the Jews?
November 9, Kristallnacht-the night of broken glass- Nazi troops attacked Jewsih homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany

7. Why the Jews? Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction
20,000 Jews arrested and sent to concentration camps
Jews had to pay 20billions marks-20%of their property

9. The Flight of Jewish Refugees
Beginning in 1933-tens of thousands of Jews flee Germany
Nazis wanted to send more out
Encountered problems
France had already taken 40,000-did not want any more
British already taking in 500/week
60,000 fled to the U.S.-more would have come but the U.S. refused to relax its strict immigration laws

10. The Flight of Jewish Refugees
U.S. was worried about anti-Semitism
Also worried about competition for jobs during Depression
After war began, Americans worried that they may be allowing enemy agents into the U.S.

11. The Final Solution
Germany unable to eliminate their Jews through emigration
Healthy Jews now sent to slave labor camps
The rest sent to extermination camps
Genocide-the deliberate killing of an entire people

12. The Condemned Nazis believed that the Aryan race must be preserved
Condemned to death other races viewed as inferior or unworthy
1st attempted to eliminate political opponents
Communists
Socialists
Liberals
Anyone who spoke against the Nazi Govmt.

13. The Condemned
Once Political opponents out of the way other groups besides Jews were targeted
Gypsies
Freemasons
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Homosexuals
Mentally retarded
The insane
Disabled
Incurably ill

14. The Condemned
Beginning in 1939-Nazis govmt rounded up these people and sent them to “Special treatment centers”
Given a “Mercy Death”
As Nazis move east, they add Poles, Russians and Ukrainians to their list of subhumans who were in the way of the “master race”

15. The Condemned After invasion of Poland
Thousands of Poles killed or shipped to Germany to perform slave labor
Empty Polish towns filled with Germans seeking lebensraum

16. Concentration Camps Murder squads rounded up Jews
Stripped them of their clothing
Shot them in Cold blood

17. Concentration Camps
Other Jews herded into ghettos-left to starve or die from disease
Others dragged from homes and sent by train or truck to concentration camps

18. Concentration Camps Life in camps Hunger Humiliation
Work that ended only with death
People crammed into wooden barracks that held up to 1,000 people each

19. Concentration Camps Shared crowded quarters Had very little food
Fleas and rats
Worked from dawn to dusk seven days a week
Those too weak to work were killed

20. Extermination
Overwork, starvation, beatings, and bullets did not kill fast enough for Nazis
1941-Nazis build 6 death camps in Poland-each camp had several huge gas chambers-could kill 6,000/day

21. Extermination
SS doctors would separate those that could work from everyone else
Those who would die were told they were headed to a shower-even given soap
Led to gas chamber and killed

22. Extermination
Executions accompanied by cheerful music played by temporarily spared inmates
Bodies at first buried in huge pits
Decaying corpses gave off to bad of a smell

23. Extermination Mass graves also showed evidence of mass murder
Nazis installed crematoriums to burn the dead
Sometimes the bodies were just thrown into a pit and set on fire

24. Extermination Gassing not only method for extermination Shot Hanged
Injected with poison
Horrible medical experiments

25. Medical Experiments
Injected with deadly germs to study effects of disease
Exist only on seawater
Test methods of sterilization

26. The Survivors Six million Jews killed Some able to escape
Many had help from people appalled by Nazi atrocities
Risked death by hiding Jews in their homes or helping them escape to neutral nations