1. The Holocaust

2. Between 1933 and million people (Jews and others) were persecuted and murdered as a result of the events leading up to World War ll.

3. 2/3 of all the Jews in Europe and eastern Russia had been eliminated.

4. What was The Holocaust? But nowadays it refers to -
“Holocaust” actually means:
“a sacrifice consumed by fire”
But nowadays it refers to -
the mass slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews, by the Nazis during World War II

5. How could something like this happen?

6. World War
Germany was defeated in World War 1.

7. The German people were forced to pay for the damage they had caused and to take the blame for World War 1.

8. *The country fell into a depression.

9. *There was a lot of unemployment.

10. The German money was worthless
*The German money was worthless. The people were poor and desperate for change.

11. A young man in the German army worked his way up in leadership
A young man in the German army worked his way up in leadership. His name was Adolf Hitler.

12. Hitler was a powerful speaker
Hitler was a powerful speaker! He was very dramatic and theatrical in his speeches.

13. Over a few years Hitler gained a lot of support for his party from the German people.

14. In 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. (president)

15. Hitler and the Nazis army used bullying and fear to gain control of both the government and the German people.

16. In 1933 the first concentration camp opened
* In 1933 the first concentration camp opened. Anyone who opposed Hitler or the Nazis were arrested and taken to concentration camps. There they were worked to death, were beaten, or killed.

17. * Hitler was a racist. He believed there should be a “master” race of physically fit, “racially pure” people.

18. *In order to make room for superior white people those who were “inferior” had to be removed.

19. Who were sent to concentration camps?
Jews
Homosexuals
Gypsies
The Disabled
Slavic Peoples
Jehovah’s Witnesses

20. * Hitler and other Nazi leaders considered the Jewish people particular danger to the Germans. * He said it was the Jews who were responsible for all the problems that existed in their society.

21. Hitler
“Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews…until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.”
-Adolf Hitler, 1922

22. As time went by Jews were arrested…

23. …forbidden to own businesses….

24. .. couldn’t own property…

25. and weren’t allowed to do their jobs.

26. Jews were not allowed to ride buses, trains, or taxis.

27. They were forced to wear the Star of David to identify themselves.

28. Jews were forced to leave their homes and as time went by they were sent to concentration or death camps.

29. Concentration Camps

30. At the camps… Prisoners were forced to do hard labor starved
Forced to obey the Nazi’s,
and were murdered if they
disobeyed
Prisoners had no control of their own lives
Many prisoners died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment

32. How did the prisoners die?
Gas chambers
Cremation
Starvation
Malnutrition
Torture
Death Marches

33. The Final Numbers - 10-11 million prisoners were murdered
6 million victims were Jews
Percentages:
Polish Jews killed: 91%
German Jews killed: 36%
Total Jews killed in Europe during World War II: 63%

34. Video A video summary of the Holocaust…