Chapter 11 Section 3 The New Order and the Holocaust

Under the Nazis, Europe was organized in two ways: Annexation into actual German provinces German military and civilian officials collaboration with local officials.

The Nazi goals of racial purity and their control of Europe allowed them to eventually kill more than 6 million people, they deemed unfit for the new German Reich

Hitler’s plan went into effect after the fall of Poland. Jews and Gypsies Slavs in the east

1 Million Poles were removed from Poland and replaced with ethnic Germans (2 million by 1942) German labor shortage during the war. Forced labor was a valuable resource.

Holocaust The Holocaust (death of 2/3 of Europe’s Jews) The Final solution called for extermination of all Jews (Genocide)

The Secret Police Secret Police were established and began rounding up Jews, forcing them in Ghettos. By 1941, the Secret Police were following the army advance and executing Jews and burying them in mass graves.

As many as 1 million Jews were executed by the Secret Police. –Labor, execution, medical experiments

The Aftermath The killing was not efficient enough for the Nazis. They began sending European Jews to Death Camps. Jews were rounded up, put into cattle cars and shipped to Poland. Railcars with Jews were given priority even late in the war. –(3 million Jews were killed in the camps)

9-10 million other non-Jews were also killed by the Nazis (Poles, Slavs, Roma-Gypsies, disabled, homosexuals) Women and children were often executed first because they could not do heavy work.

Wartime Propaganda 'Build youth hostels and camps'

Translation: National Socialism -- the organized will of the nation Translation: Germany’s Freedom

One People, One Reich, One Führer