1. THE HOLOCAUST LEARNING GOAL:
I CAN DESCRIBE HOW DURING THE HOLOCAUST, THE NAZIS SYSTEMATICALLY EXECUTED 6 MILLION JEWS & 5 MILLION OTHER NON-ARYANS OR UNDESIRABLES.

2. HITLER’S CAMPS

3. ANTI-SEMITISM: THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS BEGINS
HOLOCAUST MEANS SACRIFICE BY FIRE
THE HOLOCAUST WAS THE SYSTEMATIC MURDER OF 11 MILLION PEOPLE
JEWS PERSECUTED (TARGETED)
ANTI-SEMITISM MEANS HATRED OF JEWS
JEWS BLAMED FOR GERMANY’S FAILURE IN WW I & ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
HITLER MADE GERMANS BELIEVE JEWS WERE TO BLAME FOR THEIR PROBLEMS
JEWS WERE OUTSIDERS, WANTED TO CHANGE GERMANY

4. TREATMENT: DISCRIMINATION OF THE JEWS
1933 HITLER ORDERS ALL ”NON-ARYANS”
REMOVED FROM GOVERNMENT JOBS
1935 NUREMBERG LAWS
STRIPPED JEWS OF CITIZENSHIP, JOBS & PROPERTY
FORCED JEWS TO WEAR BRIGHT YELLOW STAR
OF DAVID ON CLOTHING
KRISTALLNACHT 11/9-10/1938
“NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”
NAZIS ATTACK JEWISH BUSINESSES, SYNAGOGUES & HOMES
100 JEWS KILLED, 30,000 ARRESTED
FIRST PHYSICAL ATTACK ON JEWS

5. JEWISH BADGES

6. HUMILIATION OF JEWS IN SCHOOL 1935

7. SA BLOCK JEWISH STORE

8. SA FORCE JEWS TO PROTEST SHOPPING IN JEWISH STORES

9. KRISTALLNACHT 11/9-10/1938 “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”

10. JEWISH REFUGEES NAZIS COULDN’T FORCE JEWISH EMIGRATION ANY FASTER
FRANCE & ENGLAND REFUSED MORE REFUGEES
30,000 JEWS SENT TO PALESTINE CONTROLLED BY ENGLAND
U.S TAKES IN 100,000 JEWS
EINSTEIN & OTHERS WITH “EXCEPTIONAL MERIT”
THE “ST. LOUIS”
U.S OFFICIALS DENY PASSENGERS FROM ENTERING U.S.
943 PASSENGERS
HALF KILLED IN HOLOCAUST

11. LIFE IN THE GHETTOS FORCED RELOCATION JEWS FORCED TO LIVE IN GHETTOS
SEGREGATED CITY PRISONS
VERY LITTLE FOOD/DIRTY
WAIT TO DIE OR BE SENT TO CAMPS
WARSAW GHETTO IN POLAND WAS LARGEST

12. WARSAW GHETTO

13. HITLER’S “FINAL SOLUTION”
CALLED FOR GENOCIDE
GENOCIDE IS THE DELIBERATE &
SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF AN ENTIRE
POPULATION
1939
250,000 JEWS IN GERMANY
3 MILLION JEWS IN POLAND
11 MILLION JEWS ACROSS EUROPE

14. CONCENTRATION CAMPS HITLER’S CONDEMNED:
HITLER BELIEVED ARYANS WERE SUPERIOR
“THE MASTER RACE”
HITLER’S “ENEMIES OF THE STATE” INCLUDED:
JEWS, GYPSIES, SLAVS, HOMOSEXUALS, MENTALLY
RETARDED, NONWHITES, PHYSICALLY DISABLED,
COMMUNISTS
HITLER’S SPECIAL DEATH SQUADS
SECURITY SQUADRONS (SS)
ROUNDED UP JEWS & SHOT THEM ON SPOT

15. CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LABOR CAMPS)
PRISONS FOR ALL UNDESIRABLES
INMATES WERE WORKED TO DEATH
1942 WANNASEE CONFERENCE:
PLAN TO USE POISON GAS TO MASS MURDER UNDESIRABLES
STARVATION & SHOOTING TOO SLOW
CREATION OF EXTERMINATION/DEATH CAMPS
USE OF GAS CHAMBERS “SHOWERS” TO MASS MURDER PEOPLE WITH ZYKLON B POISON
BODIES WERE FIRST BURIED IN PITS,
SMELLED TOO BAD
CREMATORIUMS “OVENS” USED TO
BURN THE BODIES

16. THE FINAL SOLUTION

17. KILLING ONE AT A TIME, EXECUTIONS WERE TOO SLOW

18. MASS EXECUTIONS, TOO SLOW

19. NAZI MOBILE “GAS” VANS

20. FROM GHETTOS TO TRAINS TO CAMPS

21. GATE TO AUSCHWITZ: “WORK MAKES ONE FREE”

22. 6 DEATH CAMPS ALL IN POLAND:
AUSCHWITZ WAS LARGEST
PRISONERS WERE SHOT, HANGED,
POISONED, EXPERIMENTED ON, GASSED
6 MILLION JEWS KILLED IN DEATH CAMPS
5 MILLION OTHERS KILLED IN CAMPS

23. Nazi IdentificationTattoos

24. SELECTION: WORK OR GAS CHAMBER

25. INSTRUMENTS S OF DEATH
THE “SHOWERS”
ZYKLON B

26. THE CREMATORIUM- “OVENS”

27. MASS GRAVE, NO TIME TO BURN

28. WAITING TO DIE

29. CHILDREN OF THE CAMPS

30. THE DEAD’S CLOTHES

31. THE DEAD’S SHOES

32. THE DEAD’S RINGS

33. THE DEAD’S HAIR

34. THE DEAD’S TEETH

35. EXPERIMENT SURVIVORS

36. ELI WEISEL SURVIVES AUSCHWITZ

37. GEN. EISENHOWER INSPECTS THE CAMP AT OHRDURF

38. OSKAR SCHINDLER & THE SS

39. “WE SHALL NEVER FORGET”

40. PASTOR NIEMOELLER “FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS”

41. Exit Ticket
Why do you think the German people helped carry-out the Nazi’s Final Solution?
Try to provide at least three reasons.