1. Bellringer: 3/16 and 3/17 1. Pick up the papers by the door.
2. Turn in your Atomic Bomb evidence worksheet to the class drawer if you didn’t do so last class.
3. Take out a piece of notebook paper.
4. Update your ToC:
134: Notes – Holocaust
135: Analysis: Victims of the Holocaust
5. Write down your HW:
Study for your WWII map quiz NEXT CLASS!

2. Agenda: 1. Bellringer 2. Notes: The Holocaust
3. Documentary: A Day at Auschwitz
4. Activity: Who Survives? Learning about the Real Victims of the Holocaust

3. The Holocaust: Hitler’s “Final Solution”

4. Why do Hitler and the Nazis end up with the “Final Solution”?
Signs of Anti-Semitism = prevalent for decades in Germany
Scapegoating (blaming Jews for the economic depression)
Associating Jews with “cosmopolitanism”
Forcing Jews into ghettos during WWII
Hatred of all non-Aryan peoples
Not blonde-haired, blue-eyed? Sorry, not ideal.
Are you a non-German speaker? Sorry, you’re not ideal either.
Do you have 2 Jewish grandparents? Then you’re Jewish.

5. The “final Solution” Is at hand
Hitler used existing Anti-Semitism to fuel plan to rid Germany of anyone not part of the Aryan race
Final Solution = final plan for extermination of the Jewish race (+ other groups of people that the Nazis felt were “undesirable”)
Resulted in the death of 11 million+ Jews and “undesirables” by the end of WWII
Results in a genocide (the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group)
The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group

6. How does the “Final Solution” Work?
Step 1: Jews (and other “undesirables”) = rounded up by Nazis, forced to live in ghettos
Step 2: Jews + “undesirables”  transported to work/concentration camps
Step 3: Forced to labor in concentration camps under cruel, inhuman conditions

7. Jewish Ghettos

8. FORCED OUT OF THE Warsaw Ghetto

9. Auschwitz Death Camp

12. Where were these concentration camps located?
Most camps were in Eastern Europe
Especially “death camps” here (camps that existed expressly to kill)
Other camps were in: Western Europe, Germany, etc. (but not very many in Germany because they didn’t want any evidence of what they were doing to be in Germany!)

13. The Victims of the Holocaust: Who did Hitler and the Nazis target?

15. What kind of people were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Please fill in the headings of your chart as you see on the chart below.
Jews
Gypsies (Roma, Sinti)
Slavs (Poles, Ukrainians, etc.)
Religious Groups
LGBT
Physically/
mentally disabled
Main victim: Jews
Other groups targeted:
Slavs
Gypsies (ex: Roma population)
Catholics
LGBT populations
Physically/mentally disabled

16. What kind of people were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Jews
Long history of Anti-Semitism in Europe
Nazis make policies against Jews living in Germany (Nuremberg Laws)  Jews can’t go to cinemas, swimming pools, certain shops, cafés, etc.
Nazis design plan to eliminate all Jews (“Final Solution”)
Over 6 million Jews die in the Holocaust
Main victim: Jews
Other groups targeted:
Slavs
Gypsies (ex: Roma population)
Catholics
LGBT populations
Physically/mentally disabled

17. What kind of people were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Gypsies (Roma, Sinti)
Nazis thought Roma and Sinti people were inferior to Germans
Targeted by the same laws that targeted Jews (the Nuremberg Laws)
Were deported and sent to concentration camps
Main victim: Jews
Other groups targeted:
Slavs
Gypsies (ex: Roma population)
Catholics
LGBT populations
Physically/mentally disabled

18. What kind of people were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Slavs (Poles, Ukrainians, etc.)
Eliminated to make “living space” for Germans (they were in the way of lebensraum)
Deported  forced labor  millions murdered
Main victim: Jews
Other groups targeted:
Slavs
Gypsies (ex: Roma population)
Catholics
LGBT populations
Physically/mentally disabled

19. What kind of people were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Religious Groups (Catholics, Jehovah’s Witness, etc.)
There was no religion in Nazi Germany (God was a threat to Hitler’s power)
If you were publically religious = you’re a threat
Publically religious  Deported, put in camps
Main victim: Jews
Other groups targeted:
Slavs
Gypsies (ex: Roma population)
Catholics
LGBT populations
Physically/mentally disabled

20. What kind of people were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
LGBT Populations
Persecution against LGBT people = state policy in Nazi Germany
LGBT = imprisoned, some sent to labor/concentration camps
Main victim: Jews
Other groups targeted:
Slavs
Gypsies (ex: Roma population)
Catholics
LGBT populations
Physically/mentally disabled

21. What kind of people were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Physically/mentally disabled
Seen as a problem because they threatened the Nazis’ plan for human perfection
Many were forcibly sterilized (approx. 300, ,000)
“Euthanasia” program  people with disabilities were murdered in mass (Operation “T4”)
Main victim: Jews
Other groups targeted:
Slavs
Gypsies (ex: Roma population)
Catholics
LGBT populations
Physically/mentally disabled

22. What happened at the concentration camps?

23. Mass killings at concentration camps
When arriving at concentration camps, 1 of 2 things would happen:

24. At concentration camps…
Over 11 million people were killed (at least 6 million of these were Jews)
Methodology:
Shootings
Gas chambers
Mass murder
The overwhelming majority of Jews who entered the Nazi killing centers were murdered in gas chambers—usually within hours of arrival—and their bodies cremated.

26. Auschwitz Death Camp

27. Experiments at Concentration camps:
Nazi experiments served THREE major purposes:
1. Trying to solve problems Nazi soldiers faced in the field
2. Developing and testing drugs/vaccines
3. Advancing and promoting the Aryan “race”

28. Experiments at Concentration camps:
1. Trying to solve problems Nazi soldiers faced in the field
High-altitude experiments (trying to see from what altitude soldiers could successfully parachute from)
Freezing experiments (ways to treat hypothermia)
Making seawater potable

29. Experiments at Concentration camps:
2. Developing and testing drugs
Tested vaccines for malaria, TB, typhoid, hepatitis, etc.
Bone-grafting experiments
Tested chemical gas antidotes

30. Experiments at Concentration camps:
3. Advancing and promoting the Aryan race
Led by Dr. Josef Mengele (“Angel of Death”
Medical experiments on twins
Live operations w/o anesthesia
Effects of diseases on different races
Sterilization, forced miscarriages of “undesirables”
Eye color experiments