1. The Holocaust
Pg. 72 in your notebook

2. Warm-Up 1/9/2017
Why did the Japanese attack the U.S. at Pearl Harbor? On what date did they attack?
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** Your vocabulary quiz over the “ISMs” (pg. 65 in your notebook) has been pushed back to tomorrow.**

3. Hitler’s Campaign for Racial Purity
April 7, Hitler issues the order that all “non-Aryans” are to be removed from government jobs.
Anti-Semitism- hatred of the Jews
Hitler finds support in his belief that the Jews were to blame for Germany’s troubles during and after World War I.

4. Nuremberg Laws
1935- a set of laws were approved that began to strip the Jewish community of their rights and their freedoms.
Examples:
Marriage Provisions
Working Provisions
Property Provisions

5. Kristallnacht
November 9-10, known as the krisallnacht (Night of Broken Glass).
Nazi troopers and police attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.
Around 100 Jews were killed; approximately 30,000 were arrested and blamed for the destruction.

6. Kristallnacht

7. Kristallnacht

8. The Mass Exodus
After the events in November 1938, thousands of Jews across Germany began to flee to other countries for safety.
The U.S. accepted around 90,000 to 100,000 refugees. Several American citizens opposed to the Jews coming to America due to the unemployment conditions in the 1930s.

9. Hitler’s Final Solution
1939- approximately 250,000 Jews remained in Europe.
Hitler’s “Final Solution”- a policy of genocide, the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population (the Jews).

10. The Targeted Communists Criminals Socialists Liberals Romany/Gypsies
Freemasons
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jews
Homosexuals
Mentally ill/ Deficient
Physically ill/ Disabled

11. Badges

12. Badges Green- Criminals Red- Political Pink- Homosexuals
Black/Brown- Roma (Gypsies), Vagrants
Purple- Jehovah’s Witnesses
Yellow- Jews

13. Relocation
Ghettos- segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities. Nazis sealed off the ghettos with barbed wire and stone walls.
The “SS”- Nazi death squads that rounded up Jews- men, women, children, and babies and shot them on the spot.
Concentration camp- a prison camp operated by Nazis; Jews and other targeted groups were starved while performing slave labor or were murdered while located in the camp.

14. Ghettos

15. Concentration Camps

16. Map of Nazi Camps

17. Mass Exterminations
1942- Hitler’s top officials meet and agree to implement a third and final step to the “Final Solution.”
Death Camps were built in Poland and specifically used to expire the Jews in a faster manner.
Gas chambers were the preferred method of the Nazis.

18. Death Toll Estimates Jews: up to 6 million
Soviet civilians: around 7 million (including 1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews)
Soviet prisoners of war: around 3 million (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers)
Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million (including between 50,000 and 100,000 members of the Polish elites)
Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 312,000
People with disabilities living in institutions: up to 250,000
Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000
Jehovah's Witnesses: Around 1,900
Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials: at least 70,000
Homosexuals: hundreds, possibly thousands (possibly also counted in part under the 70,000 repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials noted above)

19. Death Toll Estimates (by Camps/location)
Auschwitz complex (including Birkenau, Monowitz, and subcamps): approximately 1 million
Treblinka 2: approximately 925,000
Belzec: 434,508
Sobibor: at least 167,000
Chelmno: 156,000–172,000
Deaths in ghettos: at least 800,000

20. Concentration Camps

21. Concentration Camps

22. Concentration Camps

23. Short Answer ?’s:
What groups did the Nazis deem unfit to belong to the Aryan “master race”? List 4 groups.
Why do you think the Nazi system systematic genocide was so brutally effective?
List at least two specific examples of how the Nazi regime curtailed/cut back on Jewish citizens rights and freedoms leading up to the establishment of concentration camps and death camps across Europe.