The Holocaust 24-3

“The Holocaust” The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe More than ½ were Jewish

Lead Up 1933: Hitler ordered “non-Aryans” be removed from government jobs (this included Jewish people) 1935: Nuremberg Laws said Jews could no longer be considered German citizens 1938: Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht November 9-10, 1938 “Night of Broken Glass” Nazi Storm Troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across German held lands 100 killed; hundreds injured 30,000 Jews arrested Hundreds of synagogues burned

Justification Hitler said Jews were to blame for the destruction Many Jews tried to flee but could not find countries that would take any more refugees

Hitler’s “Final Solution” Genocide: the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire group of people Hitler believed that Germans were the “master race” Other groups were considered “enemies of the state”

People Considered “Enemies of the State” Jewish people: scapegoats for German problems Gypsies: Nazi’s believed they were “inferior” Freemasons: Nazi’s said they were “Jewish protectors” and part of the “Jewish conspiracy to rule the world” Jehovah’s witnesses: They refused to join the army or salute Hitler Other Germans: homosexuals, mentally deficient, mentally ill, physically disabled, and incurably ill

Forced Relocation Sometimes before being arrested, people would be forced into crowded ghettos – segregated Jewish areas in Polish cities Bodies of the victims would be left in the streets They would be surrounded by stone walls and barbed wire People were forced to work in factories that supplied the Nazi’s Jewish people sometimes secretly organized to resist the Nazi’s in the ghetto’s

Building the Warsaw Ghetto

Victims from a Poland Ghetto

Concentration Camps Labor camps where Jewish people were sent to work for the Nazi’s or be murdered Families were separated Rats and fleas were everywhere One portion of soup for lunch, one piece of bread for dinner ***Following Pictures May Be Upsetting***

Children at a Concentration Camp

Mass Exterminations Nazi’s had been killing people by overworking, shooting, starving, and beating them In 1942, they started using huge gas chambers that killed up to 12,000 people a day

Mass Exterminations People were told to undress and enter a large shower that was really a gas chamber They were poisoned with cynide gas Some other prisoners were killed through horrific medical experiments Very few lived to tell what happened

Survivor Stories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBPaS_UPOWc&feature=related