2. WWI
Countries that had won WWI – Britain, France and the United States – put together the Versailles Treaty in 1919:
A list of rules that Germany had to obey as punishment for starting the war.
Germany had to give up some of its land and pay for the damage.
All of this had a disastrous effect on the German economy, causing inflation and unemployment to soar.

3. Adolf Hitler Born in small Austrian town in 1889.
Fought in the German army in the war and won the Iron Cross for bravery.
He had always dreamed of becoming an artist, but when the war ended with Germany’s defeat, he decided to go into politics instead.
In 1920, he became a member of the Nazi Party and saw himself as future leader of the party.

4. Adolf Hitler
Hitler’s bodyguards were called the Brownshirts, also known as the SA.
With the SA roaming the streets, Jews were no longer safe; there were assaults on Jews in cafés, theaters, shops, and synagogues.
As more people joined the Nazi party enormous parades and rallies were held.
In September 1930, the Nazi’s won 107 seats in the Reichstag (parliament), making them the second largest political party in the country.

5. 1933
After the devastation of WWI, Adolf Hitler is appointed Prime Minister of Germany
German government takes away freedom of speech, assembly, press, and freedom from invasion of privacy (mail, telephone, telegraph) and from house search without warrant.
First concentration camp opens at Dachau, Germany, for political opponents of the regime.

6. 1935 – The Nuremberg Laws
Basic anti-Jewish racist legislation passed at Nuremberg:
Nuremberg Laws: laws depriving Jews of their German citizenship enacted at the Nazi national convention in Nuremberg in September Another result was the idea that intermarriage was race treason.

7. The Star
Jewish people were forced to wear a yellow star in a noticeable area. Not doing so was punishable by death.

13. 1936
Jewish doctors no longer permitted to practice in government institutions in Germany.
Jews no longer have the right to participate in German elections.
Olympic Games open in Berlin, Germany. Anti-Jewish signs are removed until the Games are over. Jews are not allowed to participate.

14. 1938
“Kristallnacht“ (Night of Broken Glass) Anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria. Some 300,000 Jews arrested, 191 synagogues destroyed, 7,500 shops looted
German Jews forced to pay 1 billion Reichsmarks for damages of Kristallnacht.
All Jewish children are expelled from public schools.

20. 1939
German army invades Poland - beginning of World War II. Britain and France declare war on Germany.
Hitler extends power of doctors to kill institutionalized mentally and physically disabled persons in the "euthanasia" program.
Ghettos to be established in occupied Poland each under a "Judenrat" or Jewish Council, by order of Heydrich.
- During World War II, the Nazis established more than 400 ghettos in order to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish population and from neighboring Jewish communities.
- The Germans regarded the establishment of ghettos as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews.
- The assumption behind this separation was to stop the Jews, viewed by the Nazis as an inferior race, from mixing with and thus degrading the superior Aryan race.

22. Warsaw Ghetto Wall

23. 1941 – The Killing Begins
Nearly 34,000 jews are murdered by mobile killing squads, at Babi Yar near Kiev (Ukraine).
Massacre of 19,000 Odessa Jews.
Chelmno extermination camp opened near Lodz; by April 1943, 360,000 Jews had been murdered there. First gas used.

24. Orphans taken to Chelmno

25. Chelmno Gas Truck

26. 1942 – The Final Solution Extermination begins
All Jews still in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz.

28. Gas Chambers

31. Tin of Cyclone-B Gas

32. The Ovens

33. 1945 – Death Marches

34. 1945 – The End Hitler commits suicide.
Germany surrenders - the end of the Third Reich (The Third Empire).
Liberation of Camps – Germans forced to bury the dead.
War crime trials held at Nuremberg, Germany.

37. First they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me —
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.

39. Holocaust Project Work in groups of 4 or 5
Thoroughly research topic assigned
Take note of sources
Create a Power Point presentation
Use supplemental sources
Videos (youtube)
Pictures
Books

40. Requirements 3 slides per person
2 slides of information
1 slide with pictures
Each presentation must be 6 – 8 minutes long
Videos used are EXTRA and ARE NOT counted in the required length
All sources used (websites, magazines, videos, etc) must be cited on a final slide

41. Topics: Adolf Hitler

42. Topics: Other Victims

43. Topics: Dr. Josef Mengele & Human Experimentation

44. Topics: Methods of Extermination

45. Topics: Children and the Holocaust

46. Topics: The Aftermath

47. This project will be due on Wednesday, January 11th
This project will be due on Wednesday, January 11th. You must have a printed copy of your presentation to turn in on that day. The actual presentation MUST BE ON A USB. ed presentations will not be accepted. This assignment is worth a TEST grade.