1. The Holocaust

2. Pyramid of Hate
This pyramid shows how hate can escalate into something more than just discrimination but into extermination.

3. What is Genocide?
The Systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

4. Elements Leading to the Holocaust
Totalitarianism combined with Nationalism
History of Anti-Semitism
Defeat in World War I
Hitler’s belief in the Master Race
The Final Solution

5. Elements Leading to the Holocaust
1. Totalitarianism
Centralized control by an autocratic authority and the political concept that the citizens should be totally subjected to an absolute state authority

6. Elements Leading to the Holocaust
2. Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nation; and a sense of national consciousness exalting ones nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.

7. Elements Leading to the Holocaust
3. Anti-Semitism
Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

8. Elements Leading to the Holocaust
4. Master Race
Used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of Non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features.
Blond hair and Blue eyes
Known as the Aryan Race
Chart Showing the Races of Germany

9. Elements Leading to the Holocaust
5. Final Solution
The Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people.
Plan included many
stages that included
Ghettos
Camps
Transportation
Gas Chambers
Crematories

10. Ghettos An area within a city that all Jews were forced to live.
Food rations and living conditions were very poor.
Major Ghettos
Warsaw
Lodz
Kovno

11. The Camps Types of Camps Major Camps Concentration/Labor
Extermination/Death
Major Camps
Dauchau-Buchenwald
Auschwitz
Treblinkia
Bikenau
Types of Camps
Concentration camps
Forced labor
Life in the camp was terrible
There was overcrowding
Low food rations
Prisoners underwent interrogations to discover and information
Cruel medical experiments conducted

12. Transportation Systematic Deportation Boxcar 100+ people in one car
Doors were bolted shut
No place to sit down
Often people were forced to pay for their transportation
No food or water given.

13. Gas Chambers Many victims did not know of their death
Gas Chambers were referred to as Baths/Showers
Zyklon B – was used as a poison
Millions of people came to their deaths.

14. Crematoriums Prisoners were forced to staff the crematoriums.
Their job was to remove all valuables from the victims.
Burned bodies

15. Is the Holocaust the only modern day genocide
Is the Holocaust the only modern day genocide?? Do we truly learn from history? Let’s take a look!

16. Armenian Genocide
1915 – 1923
1,500,000 men, women and children murdered
500,000 survivors expelled form their homes

17. Soviet Union (Famine)
Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite
1932 – 1933
Man made famine – Soviet troops seized all of the crops

18. Cambodia
Educated, artists, technicians, formers government officials, monks, and minorities.
1,700,000 murdered – this includes those who died by slave labor

19. Rwanda
Tutsi and Hutus
1994
Lasted only 100 days
937,000 murdered – largest amounts of people to die in genocide per day

20. Yugoslavia Bosnian Muslims and Croats 1992 – 1995
Srebrenica Massacre – 8,000 murdered

21. Darfur confirmed 200,000 killed – this is a conservative estimate
80 black African groups (including – Fur, Zaghawa and Massalit)
2,000,000 murdered (Est.)
4,000,000 displaced
Currently ongoing
Conflict began in February 2003
Stems from the 1980’s
confirmed 200,000 killed – this is a conservative estimate