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The Holocaust

2. What was the Holocaust?
Defined as the mass slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews, by the Nazis during World War II
What is Genocide?
The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

3. Anti-Semitism
Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic or racial group.

4. Master Race
Used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of Non-Jewish Caucasians.
Blonde hair
Blue eyes
Known as the Aryan race

5. Adolf Hitler Austrian-born Dictator of Germany
Leader of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI Party)
Ultimately wanted to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi Germany
Ordered the systematic murder of over
6 million Jews in what he deemed the
“Final Solution”

6. The Beginning
At first, Jews were denied basic civil rights such as property ownership, the opportunity to earn a living, medical treatment, etc.
Jews were rounded up and told they were being relocated. They were then either:
Taken to be shot
Killed by van exhaust. The vans were equipped so that the exhaust was piped back into the van.
These means of killing took much too long and were not efficient.

7. 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 own transportation
No food or water given

8. Ghettos
Jews were confined in overcrowded ghettos, walled-off areas where Jews were forced to live before being transported to a concentration or extermination camp
Conditions were very poor:
Limited food
No sanitation
12-30 people per tiny room
Hundreds of thousands died due to starvation or disease

10. Concentration Camps Camps used for a range of purposes including:
Force-Labor Camps
Transit Camps, which served as temporary way stations
Extermination Camps

12. Extermination Camps
Established for the industrial-scale murder of predominantly Jewish people
Nazis constructed gas chambers (rooms that filled with poisonous gas to kill those inside) to increase killing efficiency
Besides gas chambers, camp guards killed prisoners via mass shootings, starvation, torture, etc.
Victims’ corpses were buried in mass graves or cremated
Prisoners were forced to help dispose of bodies and it was not unlikely that they would come across one of a family member
Up to 6,000 Jewish people were gassed each day at each camp

14. Camp Doctors
Nazi doctors tortured men, women, and children at death camps
Performed experiments on victims
Victims were:
Put into pressure
chambers
Tested with drugs
Castrated
Frozen to death

16. Children More than 1.5 million children were murdered
Many children were separated from their parents and sent to different camps
Medical experiments were performed on children at the concentration camps such as:
Blood transfusions from one to another
Injections of lethal germs
Sex change operations
Removal of organs and limbs
Many times, young children and the
elderly were sent immediately to the
gas chambers
Older children performed slave labor

18. Auschwitz A network of concentration camps
48 camps in total, with three main (the largest)

19. Liberation of Camps Began in 1944
“Liberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the
Nazi camps, where
piles of corpses lay
unburied.”