Hitler’s “Final Solution” for the European Jews The Holocaust Hitler’s “Final Solution” for the European Jews

Hitler’s “Perfect Society” Long history of hatred of the Jews. (Anti-Semitism) Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing to be identified. Kristallnacht (Nov. 1938)“Night of Broken Glass”- Jewish businesses were attacked. Hitler wanted to get rid of Jews through immigration. Many Jews fled to other areas of Europe. Those that did not flee were sent to ghettos in Poland. Hitler tried to starve them off.

Anti-Semitism "Just as it is often hard to tell a toadstool from an edible mushroom, so too it is often very hard to recognize the Jew as a swindler and criminal..."

The Star of David

The Final Solution The Jews did not die quick enough for Hitler in the ghettos. He decided to enact his “Final Solution”- the genocide of the Jews & others deemed “subhuman.” Hitler’s SS (security force) rounded up Jews and killed them or sent them to concentration camps. In the concentration camps, the Jews worked or starved to death. Auschwitz, Poland

The Final Stage By 1942, gas chambers were built to kill the Jews quickly. 6,000 killed per day. Women and children were murdered first. Men lived a bit longer in order to work. The gas was released from the ceiling of the “shower.” The bodies were then burned.

The Aftermath 6 million European Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. The last of the concentration camps were finally liberated by the Allies in 1945.

Children About to Die in Gas Chamber

Quick Execution

Medical Experiments

Auschwitz Death Camp

Auschwitz Death Camp