1. Chapter 15 section 4
The holocaust

2. Section focus
How did the Holocaust develop and what were the results?

3. Roots of the Holocaust Holocaust Hitler preaches Hate
Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control
Believe Aryans superior to other races
Other undesirables
Hitler preaches Hate
Nazi movement = hate from beginning
Hitler blames Jews for all problems in post WWI Germany
Becomes Chancellor in 1933
Jewish persecution begins immediatley

4. Nazi Persecution begins
Jewish persecution begins economically
Hitler urges Germans to boycott Jewish business
Bans Jews from civil service jobs
Banking
Stock exchange
Law
Journalism
medicine
1935 Nuremberg Laws
Denies German citizenship
Bans marriage of Jews to non Jews
Propaganda campaign against Jews

6. Kristallnact Nov 9, 1938 “Night of Broken Glass”
Nazi officials order attacks on Jews in Germany, Austria, Sudetenland
Military/Secret police destroy 1,500 businesses,
1500 synagogues
Arrest thousands of Jews

7. Final Solution Genocide Concentration Camps
Willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group
Concentration Camps
Built to turn prisoners into useful citizens
Prisoners
Political opponents, labor leaders, communists, journalist, artists, Gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, beggars, drunks, physically disabled, mentally ill.
Arms are tattooed

8. Concentration Camps NO restraints against sadistic guards Torture
Medical experiments
Oxygen deprivation
Hypothermia
Effects of altitude
No anethesia
5,000 disabled children

9. Concentration Camps 1942 Wannsee Conference
Plan laid out to murder 11 million Jews
Final solution
Millions of Jews imprisoned in Poland and USSR
Death Camps
Auschwitz (Poland)
Prisoners gassed
Some camps have no gas… guards shoot
“Action Groups”
Units follow German soldiers into battle killing Jews

10. Concentration Camps Desecration of bodies
Human fat turned to soap
Human hair woven into wigs, slippers, mattresses
Wedding rings, fillings, cash taken off victims
Bodies then burned
million Jews murdered
5 million non-Jews murdered

11. Allies and holocaust Early Response is weak US takes Action
US immigration policy blocks Jews
US takes Action
1942 US officially recognizes Holocaust
War Refugee Board
Works with Red Cross to help Jews
Stalin show little concern for Jews

12. Allied Soldiers Liberate Camps
Soldiers send home tales of Concentration Camps
Outpouring of Support for Jews

13. Section Focus How did the Holocaust develop and what were its results?
When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he institutionalized anti-semitism. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws denied Jews their German citizenship. Many Jews were put into concentration camps. Later Nazi leader adopted Hitler’s “Final Solution” which resulted millions of murders.