1. Warm up
On the 2nd page of notes, at the bottom, answer these questions
What comes to mind when you think about the Holocaust?
What names stand out?

2. The Holocaust

3. The Beliefs of the Nazis
Racial Superiority
The belief in the supremacy of the Aryan “master” race
The greatest threat: Jewish people
The only way for German to rise up, is to get rid of the “inferior race”
Ideas came from Mein Kampf

4. Holocaust begins…
Hitler used the long lasting dislike of the Jews to gain support for his racist ideas
Slowly, the hatred of Jews worked its way into govt policy
Nuremberg Laws – 1935
deprived jews of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between jews and non-jews. Also limited types of work Jews could do

5. Night of Broken Glass -1938
Nazi’s launched violent attack against the Jewish community
Many Jews fled, but as Hitler continued to conquer more territories, there was nowhere to run
Soon were put into
Ghettos

6. The Final Solution Hitler’s program of genocide
The systematic killing of an entire people
Hitler wanted to protect “racial purity”
Wanted to eliminate not only Jews, but Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, disabled, and the deathly ill.
Mass killings started
Rounding up people and shooting them

8. Cont… If they weren’t killed, they were put in concentration camps
( slave-labor prisons)
Final solution reached its peak in 1942
Built camps with gas chambers ( could kill 6,000 people in a day)
Auschwitz
- largest of the camps

9. Survivors Est. 6 million Jews died Less than 4 million survived
Help from non-Jews
Some survived the camps

10. Jews killed under Nazi Rule
Original Jewish Population
Jews Killed
Percent surviving
Poland
3,300,000
2,800,000
15%
Soviet Union (occupied by Germany)
2,100,000
200,000
29%
Hungary
404,000
49%
Romania
850,000
425,000
50%
Germany/
Austria
270,000
210,000
22%