1. The Holocaust

2. Vocab to Know Genocide Aryan Race Jewish Question Final Solution
Ethnocentrism

3. The Holocaust Anti-Semitism throughout European history
Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany
Blamed the Jewish population and others for bringing Germany down
Wanted to cleanse Germany of all “non-Aryans”
Ghettos were originally designed to segregate populations

4. The Final Solution
Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped, and gypsies were placed in Concentration, or Death Camps.
Forced labor, starvation, torture, medical experiments
Mass executions
Gas chambers
Approximately 8 -12million people died in the Concentration Camps

5. A pile of the victims’ glasses at Auschwitz.

6. Medical experiments

7. Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz.

8. A prisoner in a compression chamber loses consciousness (and later dies) during an experiment to determine altitudes at which aircraft crews could survive without oxygen.

9. A shrunken head of a prisoner, discovered at the Buchenwald camp
A shrunken head of a prisoner, discovered at the Buchenwald camp. In order to terrorize the other prisoners, the SS guards hanged two shrunken heads in the middle of the camp.

10. The furnaces of Krema II in Auschwitz.

11. A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Ukraine.

12. A mass grave in the Belsen camp.

13. Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg, Germany 1946

14. International Military Tribunal
Represented 23 nations
Put Nazi war criminals on trial
22 Nazi leaders were charged with waging war of aggression
Nazi Doctor on trial

15. Verdict
Leaders were accused of violating the laws of war and of committing “crimes against humanity”- the murder of 11 million people
Of the 22 defendants, 12 were sentenced to death
One of those (Göring-shown on next slide) killed himself
The other 11 were hanged on October 16, 1946, then burned at the concentration camp of Dachau in the same ovens that burned so many of their victims

16. What about Hitler?
Führer Adolf Hitler, SS Chief Himmler and Minister of Propaganda Goebbels all escaped trial by committing suicide.
Göring and Hess (high ranking Nazi officials)
on trial