Holocaust Element: Identify Nazi ideology, policies, and consequences that led to the Holocaust. Vocabulary: Nazi ideology, Holocaust

Nazi Ideology Nazi Racism: idea that the Germans, or Aryans, were the “Master race” all non-Aryans were inferior; especially the Jews

Nazi Ideology Anti-Semitism: hatred of Jewish people long existed in Western Europe during the depression of the 1920s Hitler claimed the entire Jewish community were anti-German and the source of the nation’s problems Jewish leaders also played a dominate role in the acceptance of the Treaty Versailles in 1919

Nazi Ideology After 1920s: Jews became the national enemy of Germany

Policies First Solution: Nuremburg Laws – laws passed to reduce the right of Jewish people in Germany ex. German and Jews could not marry

Policies Kristallnacht: “night of broken glass” terror campaign against Jewish synagogues and Jewish owned businesses

Kristallnacht

Policies Isolation: All Jews were forced to wear a patch with the Star of David Ghettos - Germans began moving Jews into designated cities then into run down parts of the city known as ghettos Concentration Camps – Hitler moved Jews out of the cities to work camps that forced the Jews to work for the Nazi’s. Stripped the Jewish community of individuality, taking way all their belongings.

Identifying Jews

The Warsaw Ghetto in Poland

Policies Final Solution: Concentration camps became death camps: example Auschwitz Hitler’s plan for genocide or killing off of the Jews SS troops (Hitler’s security force) became killing squads that searched through all German controlled territories hunting down Jews

SS Killing Squads

Extermination Camps Auschwitz Extermination Camp

Concentration Camps Buchenwald Camp

Consequences of the Holocaust the slaughter of an estimated 6 million Jews (does not include Roma-Gypsies, Slavs, Poles, Handicapped, among others) Nuremberg Trials: Nazi leaders brought to trial for “crimes against humanity” (Holocaust) The Holocaust matters today because the violence against the Jews led to the founding of Israel after World War II.

Jews Killed Under Nazi Rule Original Jewish Population Jews KilledPercent Surviving Poland3,300,0002,800,00015% Soviet Union2,100,0001,500,00029% Hungary404,000200,00049% Romania850,000425,00050% Germany/ Austria 270,000210,00022%

Aftermath General Eisenhower inspects a camp in 1945.