The Holocaust 16.3
The Plan Exclusion Expulsion Enclosure Extermination
Exclusion “no rights, no property, no protection” Built concentration camps Boycotts Yellow stars Fired from jobs No school NUREMBERG LAWS: no longer citizens Kristallnacht
Expulsion Judenrein: “cleansed of Jews” Expulsion from Austria, Germany, Poland, Czech Sent to ghettos and camps WWII begins Einsatzgruppen starts: mobile killing squads
Enclosure Ghettos – Warsaw, Lodz – 800 calories/ day Forced labor Labor camps: natural deaths
Extermination Final Solution Mercy killings, Euthanasia, mobile gas chambers in vans Wannasee Conference: official policy of extermination Extermination camps built – Auschwitz
Extinguishing the Fire D-Day June 6, 1944 Death camps begin to be dismantled Jews sent to Auschwitz Gas chambers ran 24 hours, tried to kill all of them before Allies got there April 29, 1945 Hitler dead May 7, 1945 War over
Justice Nuremberg Trials Crimes against humanity War crimes Crimes against peace 22 Nazi defendants – 3 not guilt, 4 prison, 3 prison for life, 12 put to death – Trials still continue today – No such thing as “just following orders”