1. The Holocaust Angela Brown http://www.teacheroz.com/hitler.htm
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The Holocaust
Angela Brown

2. Lesson Targets:
Explain how persecution of Jews and other minorities increased in Germany under the Nazis during the 1930s.
Describe how the Nazis carried out their plans for genocide.

3. 5 to 6 million other people died in Nazi captivity
Holocaust - Six million Jews, 2/3 of Europe’s Jewish population massacred by the end of WWII
5 to 6 million other people died in Nazi captivity

4. The Start of Persecution
Semitic peoples include Arabs, Ethiopians, other Middle Eastern and North African groups as well as Jews.
Anti-Semitism came to mean hostility toward Jews by 1880s.

5. The Nazi’s Take Action
1935 – Nuremberg Laws – strip Jews of German citizenship and forbid marriage between Jews and non-Jews.
Ghetto Ration Card

6. The Ghetto Wall
1937 and 1938 “Aryanize” Jewish businesses, required Jews to register their property and dismissed Jewish employees and managers - Jewish doctors could only treat Jews – Identification cards J

7. SA – police unit to silence opposition to Nazis
SS – elite guard, private army of Nazi party
Secret State police – Gestapo – pursue people who broke laws of Nazi regime

8.
Concentration Camps
prisoners of war and political prisoners are confined
(homeless, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, mentally and physically disabled, gypsies and Jews)
Entrance to Auschwitz
“Work makes one Free”

9. Babi Yar
On September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jewish residents of Kiev were marched to this site and systematically gunned down over the edge of the ravine by members of the Sonderkommando 4a of Einstazgruppen C. Thousands of Gypsies and Soviet POWs were also executed at this site between 1941 and 1943.

10.
March to Babi Yar

11. Kristallnacht 1938 – after annexation of Austria attacks on Jews began
“Night of Broken Glass” – Nov 9-10 Nazis looted and destroyed Jewish stores, houses and synagogues – mass arrests of Jews followed
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12. Refugees Seek an Escape
,000 Jews fled Germany
FDR responded to calls for action by Evian Conference – If failed to address the problems – only Dominican Republic of the 29 nations represented was willing to ease its immigration laws
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13. From Murder to Genocide
1939 invasion of Poland – 2 million Jews under German control
350,000 or 30% of the population of Warsaw placed in Ghettos – sealed off by a wall topped with barbed wire – guards
Hunger, overcrowding, lack of sanitation = disease

14. The Einsatzgruppen
Special forces or mobile killing units were sent to Poland in 1939
Systematically murdered members of Poland’s upper class,
intellectuals, priests, and influential Jews
1941 eliminated communist political leaders and Jews during invasion of Soviet Union

15. Wannsee Conference Jan 1942
Government officials planned “final solution to the Jewish question”.
Established concentration camps to eliminate Jews.

16. The Death Camps 1941 began experimenting methods of extermination.
The Death Camps
1941 began experimenting methods of extermination.
Chose poison gas, zyklon B, to be administered in chambers designed as showers.
1st day, Dec. 1941, 2300 Jews killed.
Gas Chamber

17. 6 camps in Poland – unlike other work camps – death camps only for mass murder
Trains – inspected – gas chambers – bodies burned in huge ovens (crematoria)

18. In Camps… shaved tattooed with registration numbers starved disease
periodic “selections”

19. The Camps Buchewald 1937-1945 labor camp 43,000 died Aucshwitz
The Camps
Buchewald
labor camp
43,000 died
Aucshwitz
death camp – Poland
1.5 million murdered
90% Jews

20. Fighting Back
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto revolted against deportation to Treblinka.
Jews rioted at Treblinka Camp. It Closed.
Escape was most common revolt. – most attempts failed – a few got away to warn others.
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21. Rescue and Liberation
American newspapers showed little interest in Holocaust during the war.
Immigration quotas were not raised.
1944 – despite Congress objection FDR formed War Refugee Board (WRB) – try to help people threatened by Nazis – saved 200,000 lives

22. May 1945 – Germany collapsed – American troops witnessed Holocaust.

25. Nuremburg Trials
November 1945, Allies placed 24 leading Nazis on trial for crimes against humanity.
= 12 death sentences
Trial established important principle – Individuals are responsible for their own actions – not just “following orders”.
Defendants Rudolf Hess and other Nazi’s
during the trial.

26. Schindler’s List Oskar Schindler – 1300 Jews saved
Today there are more than 6,000 descendants of Schindler`s Jews living in the USA and Europe, and many in Israel. Before the Second World War, the Jewish population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and 4,000 left.

27. Exit Slip
1.In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws to… 2.People considered by the Nazis to be “undesirable” were… 3.What was the “final solution to the Jewish question,” announced by the Nazis at the Wannsee Conference?

28. Exit Slip
In April 1943, how did Jews in Warsaw react against deportation to Treblinka?
What did Roosevelt finally create, in January 1944, to try to help the Jews?
What was the important idea that came out of the Nuremberg Trials?