1. The Holocaust
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2. “The Holocaust”
The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe
More than ½ were Jewish

3. Lead Up
1933: Hitler ordered “non-Aryans” be removed from government jobs (this included Jewish people)
1935: Nuremberg Laws said Jews could no longer be considered German citizens
1938: Kristallnacht

4. Kristallnacht November 9-10, 1938 “Night of Broken Glass”
Nazi Storm Troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across German held lands
100 killed; hundreds injured
30,000 Jews arrested
Hundreds of synagogues burned

11. Justification Hitler said Jews were to blame for the destruction
Many Jews tried to flee but could not find countries that would take any more refugees

12. Hitler’s “Final Solution”
Genocide: the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire group of people
Hitler believed that Germans were the “master race”
Other groups were considered “enemies of the state”

13. People Considered “Enemies of the State”
Jewish people: scapegoats for German problems
Gypsies: Nazi’s believed they were “inferior”
Freemasons: Nazi’s said they were “Jewish protectors” and part of the “Jewish conspiracy to rule the world”
Jehovah’s witnesses: They refused to join the army or salute Hitler
Other Germans: homosexuals, mentally deficient, mentally ill, physically disabled, and incurably ill

16. Forced Relocation
Sometimes before being arrested, people would be forced into crowded ghettos – segregated Jewish areas in Polish cities
Bodies of the victims would be left in the streets
They would be surrounded by stone walls and barbed wire
People were forced to work in factories that supplied the Nazi’s
Jewish people sometimes secretly organized to resist the Nazi’s in the ghetto’s

17. Building the Warsaw Ghetto

18. Victims from a Poland Ghetto

19. Concentration Camps
Labor camps where Jewish people were sent to work for the Nazi’s or be murdered
Families were separated
Rats and fleas were everywhere
One portion of soup for lunch, one piece of bread for dinner
***Following Pictures May Be Upsetting***

22. Children at a Concentration Camp

28. Mass Exterminations
Nazi’s had been killing people by overworking, shooting, starving, and beating them
In 1942, they started using huge gas chambers that killed up to 12,000 people a day

29. Mass Exterminations
People were told to undress and enter a large shower that was really a gas chamber
They were poisoned with cynide gas
Some other prisoners were killed through horrific medical experiments
Very few lived to tell what happened

30. Survivor Stories