2. The Holocaust

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
(Poles, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Africans, Mentally-Handicapped)
Holocaust begins
Jews became targets of German failures
Nuremberg Laws- took away rights of Jews
Citizenship, marriages

4. Kristallnacht-“night of broken glass”
German diplomat shot in Paris
By Hersel Grynszpan- for revenge for family being deported to Poland
Germans launch attack on Jews
This night will be known as kristallnacht
Kristallnacht became a major policy of Jewish persecution
Flood of Refugees
Many Jews flee Germany
Hitler called it a “Jewish problem”
Other countries turned down the influx of Jewish immigrants
Isolating the Jews
Hitler will move Jews into Ghettos- segregated Jewish areas
Ghettos were then sealed off with barbed wire & stone walls
Some Jews will form resistance groups in ghettos
Jews will struggle to keep traditions
Hitler’s Impatience

6. The “Final Solution” Hitler grows impatient Killings begin Final Stage
Plan- “final solution” becomes plan for genocide- mass killing of an entire people
Plan for conquest depended on purity of Aryan race
Killings begin
Hitler’s SS 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
11 million will die (6 million Jews)

8. Liberation from concentration camps

9. The death march

10. CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
Why did Hitler begin mass killing of Jews?
Starvation and disease was not killing them fast enough.
What was the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp?
Concentration camps were slave-labor prisons. Extermination camps were for mass murder.