The Holocaust

Pyramid of Hate This pyramid shows how hate can escalate into something more than just discrimination but into extermination.

What is Genocide? The Systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

Elements Leading to the Holocaust Totalitarianism combined with Nationalism History of Anti-Semitism Defeat in World War I Hitler’s belief in the Master Race The Final Solution

Elements Leading to the Holocaust 1. Totalitarianism Centralized control by an autocratic authority and the political concept that the citizens should be totally subjected to an absolute state authority

Elements Leading to the Holocaust 2. Nationalism Loyalty and devotion to a nation; and a sense of national consciousness exalting ones nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.

Elements Leading to the Holocaust 3. Anti-Semitism Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

Elements Leading to the Holocaust 4. Master Race Used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of Non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features. Blond hair and Blue eyes Known as the Aryan Race Chart Showing the Races of Germany

Elements Leading to the Holocaust 5. Final Solution The Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people. Plan included many stages that included Ghettos Camps Transportation Gas Chambers Crematories

Ghettos An area within a city that all Jews were forced to live. Food rations and living conditions were very poor. Major Ghettos Warsaw Lodz Kovno

The Camps Types of Camps Major Camps Concentration/Labor Extermination/Death Major Camps Dauchau-Buchenwald Auschwitz Treblinkia Bikenau Types of Camps Concentration camps Forced labor Life in the camp was terrible There was overcrowding Low food rations Prisoners underwent interrogations to discover and information Cruel medical experiments conducted

Transportation Systematic Deportation Boxcar 100+ people in one car Doors were bolted shut No place to sit down Often people were forced to pay for their transportation No food or water given.

Gas Chambers Many victims did not know of their death Gas Chambers were referred to as Baths/Showers Zyklon B – was used as a poison Millions of people came to their deaths.

Crematoriums Prisoners were forced to staff the crematoriums. Their job was to remove all valuables from the victims. Burned bodies

Is the Holocaust the only modern day genocide Is the Holocaust the only modern day genocide?? Do we truly learn from history? Let’s take a look!

Armenian Genocide 1915 – 1923 1,500,000 men, women and children murdered 500,000 survivors expelled form their homes

Soviet Union (Famine) Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite 1932 – 1933 Man made famine – Soviet troops seized all of the crops

Cambodia Educated, artists, technicians, formers government officials, monks, and minorities. 1975- 1979 1,700,000 murdered – this includes those who died by slave labor

Rwanda Tutsi and Hutus 1994 Lasted only 100 days 937,000 murdered – largest amounts of people to die in genocide per day

Yugoslavia Bosnian Muslims and Croats 1992 – 1995 Srebrenica Massacre – 8,000 murdered

Darfur confirmed 200,000 killed – this is a conservative estimate 80 black African groups (including – Fur, Zaghawa and Massalit) 2,000,000 murdered (Est.) 4,000,000 displaced Currently ongoing Conflict began in February 2003 Stems from the 1980’s confirmed 200,000 killed – this is a conservative estimate