Chapter 15 section 4 The holocaust

Section focus How did the Holocaust develop and what were the results?

Roots of the Holocaust Holocaust Hitler preaches Hate Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control Believe Aryans superior to other races Other undesirables Hitler preaches Hate Nazi movement = hate from beginning Hitler blames Jews for all problems in post WWI Germany Becomes Chancellor in 1933 Jewish persecution begins immediatley

Nazi Persecution begins Jewish persecution begins economically Hitler urges Germans to boycott Jewish business Bans Jews from civil service jobs Banking Stock exchange Law Journalism medicine 1935 Nuremberg Laws Denies German citizenship Bans marriage of Jews to non Jews Propaganda campaign against Jews

Kristallnact Nov 9, 1938 “Night of Broken Glass” Nazi officials order attacks on Jews in Germany, Austria, Sudetenland Military/Secret police destroy 1,500 businesses, 1500 synagogues Arrest thousands of Jews

Final Solution Genocide Concentration Camps Willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group Concentration Camps Built to turn prisoners into useful citizens Prisoners Political opponents, labor leaders, communists, journalist, artists, Gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, beggars, drunks, physically disabled, mentally ill. Arms are tattooed

Concentration Camps NO restraints against sadistic guards Torture Medical experiments Oxygen deprivation Hypothermia Effects of altitude No anethesia 5,000 disabled children

Concentration Camps 1942 Wannsee Conference Plan laid out to murder 11 million Jews Final solution Millions of Jews imprisoned in Poland and USSR Death Camps Auschwitz (Poland) Prisoners gassed Some camps have no gas… guards shoot “Action Groups” Units follow German soldiers into battle killing Jews

Concentration Camps Desecration of bodies Human fat turned to soap Human hair woven into wigs, slippers, mattresses Wedding rings, fillings, cash taken off victims Bodies then burned 1945. 6 million Jews murdered 5 million non-Jews murdered

Allies and holocaust Early Response is weak US takes Action US immigration policy blocks Jews US takes Action 1942 US officially recognizes Holocaust War Refugee Board Works with Red Cross to help Jews Stalin show little concern for Jews

Allied Soldiers Liberate Camps Soldiers send home tales of Concentration Camps Outpouring of Support for Jews

Section Focus How did the Holocaust develop and what were its results? When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he institutionalized anti-semitism. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws denied Jews their German citizenship. Many Jews were put into concentration camps. Later Nazi leader adopted Hitler’s “Final Solution” which resulted millions of murders.