2. World War II 1939-1945 1939 Germany Invades Poland
Nazi occupied Germany
Attempt to create the perfect Aryan race

3. The concentration camps....
Treblinka
Dachau
Auschwitz-birkenau

4. Auschwitz I

5. The Hospital Block courtyard at Auschwitz.

6. The main entrance to Birkenau viewed from the unloading ramp.

7. The spotlight in the main tower over the entrance to the unloading ramp at Birkenau. Transports brought mostly Jews, but also Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, blacks, homosexuals and others, to their deaths.

8. Inside the collapsed roof of Krematorium II at Birkenau, blown up by the Nazis before the evacuation of the camp. Krematoria II and III were the largest gassing and cremation facilities in the entire Nazi operation.

9. In 1944, when the 4 Birkenau Krematoria could no longer keep pace with the rate of destruction, some 20,000 bodies a day were burned in this, and other pits. They were approximately 100 m. long.

10. Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum
Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one day's collection at the peak of the gassings, about 25,000 pairs of shoes.

11. Why. Personality of the Germans
Why? Personality of the Germans? (dispositional factors) Or the situation that found themselves in? (situational factors)
Adolf Eichmann

12. Adolf Eichmann
First televised courtroom trial in the history of T.V in 1961
Called himself the “Jewish Specialist” and largely responsible for the death of six million Jews
Tried and convicted for crimes against humanity
Killed by hanging, cremated and his ashes spread around the Mediterranean
What words would you use to describe his personality?.....

13. Adolf Eichmann …..At his trial he came over as an ordinary man.
Said he was just following orders and had no real ill-will or hatred towards the Jews.
He just wanted to further his career and was doing his job to the best of his ability.
Agency theory