1. Bell ringer
Why did Hitler turn to the systematic killing of Jews? Weren’t there other ways to get rid of them?

2. The Holocaust
Chapter 16

3. The Holocaust Nazi’s propose new racial order Holocaust begins
Aryans- master race of Germanic peoples
All non-Aryans were inferior: especially Jewish
Holocaust- mass slaughter of Jews and other groups
Holocaust begins
Jews became targets of German failures
Nuremberg Laws (1935)- took away rights of Jews
Citizenship, marriages

4. “night of broken glass”
German diplomat shot in Paris
By Herschel Grynszpan: for revenge of father being deported to Poland
Germans launch attack on Jews
This night will be known as kristallnacht or “night of broken glass”
Flood of Refugees
Jews will flee Germany
Hitler called it a “Jewish problem” and favored emigration
Other countries will turn down the influx of Jewish immigrants
Isolating the Jews
Hitler will move Jews into Ghettos- segregated Jewish areas
Ghettos were then sealed off in hopes that the Jews would starve to death
Some Jews will form resistance groups in ghettos
Jews will struggle to keep traditions

5. The “Final Solution” Hitler grows impatient Killings begin Final Stage
Tired of waiting on the Jews to die from disease and starvation
Plan- “final solution” becomes plan for genocide- mass killing of entire people
Plan for conquest depended on purity of Aryan race
Killings begin
Hitler’s army will hunt down Jews
Shot prisoners in pits
Jews not reached by killing squads went to concentration camps
Final Stage
Extermination camps built with gas chambers
Auschwitz- largest of the camps
The Survivors
6 million will die
Less then 4 million will survive

6. Exit Slip
What was life like in the Auschwitz camp?