1. Bell Ringer Analyze the political cartoon.
What does the bird represent?
What is he doing?
What event inspired the creation of this political cartoon?
What is the point of view of the cartoonist?

2. EQ: What factors contributed to the Holocaust in Europe?

3. Nazi Prejudice The Nazis (and Hitler) held anti-Semitic beliefs
Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews
Hitler blamed the Jews for WWI and the ToV

4. Nuremberg Laws 1935 Stripped Jews of: Citizenship Civil Rights
The ability to marry German citizens
Eventually required identification (yellow badges)
Jews classified by having even one Jewish grandparent

5. Kristallnacht - 1935 Night of Broken Glass
Synagogues and businesses destroyed
Thousands arrested and sent to camps
Encouraged to leave Germany

6. St. Louis Passenger ship carrying hundreds of Jewish refugees
Refused by Cuba and then the U.S.

7. The Final Solution Heinrich Himmler – leader of the SS
In charge of the genocide
Einsatzgruppen – special strike forces to enforce the “Final Solution”
ghettos, segregated areas of cities
executed Jews and buried them in mass graves

8. The Final Solution
In order to speed things up the Nazis began to ship Jews to concentration camps in cattle cars.
packed tightly
inhumane conditions

9. The Final Solution Labor Camps Able bodied prisoners were sent to work
Extreme conditions
Provided little food

11. The Final Solution Death Camps Most famously Auschwitz-Birkenau
Factories of death – used gas chambers and then cremated the bodies

12. Nuremberg Trials
Tried the leading Nazi officials for crimes against humanity

16. Essential Question
What factors contributed to the Holocaust in Europe?