1. The Holocaust

2. 1. Adolf Hitler: a. Mein Kampf: “My Struggle” Book written by Adolf Hitler about how he struggled and how peopled ruined Germany
b. Written while in jail (1924)
c. Blames Jews for the end of WW1 and the depression

3. - Organize and carry out “exterminations”
2.Terror Group- SS
a. Troops directly loyal to Hitler (Not Germany)
- “Believe, Obey, Fight”: Follow all Hitler’s orders no matter if legal or illegal
b. Gestapo (State Police)
- Took out anyone who didn’t
agree with Hitler
- Do what ever they wanted
as long as it was for Hitler
c. Run Death Camps:
- Organize and carry out “exterminations”

4. 3. Concentration Camps (1933)
- NOT killing centers
- Began with political and religious people who didn’t agree with Hitler
* Run mainly for labor and keep people quite
- Camps become associated with slave labor
** DEATH Through EXHAUSTION

6. FINAL SOLUTION: Extermination (killing) of ALL Jews in Europe
Includes: Gypsies,
Mentally ill , Soviet POW’s
Jews being removed from their home, to be taken to camps.
This is the attic Anne Frank hid in, while trying to hide from the NAZI’s.

7. 4. KILLING Centers (huge groups at a time)
* 1st Method: Einsatzgruppen: Death Squads: Shooting multiple people at once (takes too much time)
* 2nd Method: “Bread Vans”: Use exhaust from van/train to kill
* 3rd Method:
“Busses with Lye”:
People in bus poisoned
by lye

8. 4th Method: Death Camps (Auschwitz)
Gas Chambers: Tell people they are getting a shower, put people in room and instead of water, gas comes out
** 45 minutes from arrival to death
After they were killed in the gas chambers, the bodies would be taken to the crematorium, where they would burn the bodies.
A gas chamber at a camp. People would be stuffed in the gas chamber (as many as they could fit), then the gas would be turned on and the doors locked.

9. All belongings are taken from you (suitcase, jewelry, jacket)
Separated into 2 lines (Men & Women)
Arrive at Camp
Separated into 2 more lines
(One line for sick/old and the other for people that can work)
Dentist looks and removes gold teeth
Heads are shaved
People that can work have numbers tattooed on arm
Sick line heads straight to gas chambers
Clothes removed

10. Auschwitz- Largest concentration camp –
over 2 million killed
* When arrived- separated in 2 groups
1. Kill right away
2. Taken to work (shaved head, took belongings, clothes)
Total Deaths:
Over 6 million Jews
Jews arrive at a concentration camp, awaiting to be separated into men & women.
An example of what a bunk would look like.

13. A group of Jewish people lined up waiting to be shot
A group of Jewish people lined up waiting to be shot. When they fall, they fall into the hole with all the dead bodies.

15. A warehouse full of shoes and clothing confiscated from the prisoners and deportees gassed upon their arrival. The Germans shipped these goods to Germany. (After January 1945)

16. Photograph taken immediately after the departure of the Germans from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sacks of human hair packed for dispatch to Germany. The women had their hair cut prior to gassing. In Auschwitz warehouses 7,000 kilos of human hair was found at liberation. (January 1945)

17. The spoils: the victims' gold teeth and dental work, collected by the Nazis. After the war, the allies found many documents listing quantities of gold teeth transferred from the camps to banks inside Germany. A secret vault was also discovered, containing (among other valuables) 384 pounds of gold and silver teeth.