1. The Holocaust HSCE 7.2.3Ch. 32 sec. 3
*Hitler’s vision of Europe = master race----Aryans
-all non-Aryans were inferior
-would systematically mass slaughter all Jews & others seen as inferior
*There was a universal hatred of the Jews in Europe
--Hitler tapped into that hatred
--Jews blamed for WWI defeat & economic troubles after
--Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of rights to German citizenship & no marriages btwn. Jews & non-Jews

2. *Kristallnacht----Night of Broken Glass---Nov. 9, 1938
-Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, & synagogues----murdered almost 100 Jews
*Jewish persecution really begins & future looks bad…
* many Jews fled to other countries….BUT
--after WWII begins, AH conquers those countries….
--Britain, France, & U.S. stop letting Jews in after awhile
*AH loves that Jews are leaving Germany
*Jews AH could not get rid of = put in ghettos---segregated Jewish areas
--Nazis sealed off ghettos w/ barbed wire & stone walls
--hoped Jews would starve or die from disease

5. *The Final Solution---AH got tired of waiting for Jews to die of starvation or disease
--decided to go w/ genocide--- systematic killing of an entire people
--AH believed German’s conquest depended on purity of Aryan race
--Jews = subhumans
-also included: gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, disabled, the insane, & incurably ill….but MOSTLY Jews
*Killings began = when Nazis moved across EASTERN EUROPE & USSR
--SS units went town to town to hunt down Jews
--ALL Jews rounded up, put in pits, shot & buried
-Jews not found by killing squads---sent to concentration camps or slave labor prisons
*Camps in Germany, BUT mainly in Poland

6. *Concentration camps---- horrible conditions = AH hope it would speed up the Jewish elimination
--prisoners worked 7 days/ wk as slaves for SS or German businesses
-Guards severely beat or killed prisoners for not working hard/fast enough
-meals = thin soup, scrap of bread, potato peelings
--most lost 50 lbs. in the 1st few months
--INTENSE hunger!
*Final Stage
-camps became equipped w/ huge gas chambers
--could kill up to 6,000 humans a day
--Auschwitz = largest camp (Anne Frank died there)
--people were separated upon entering camp
--strong from the weak (women, young kids, elderly, sick)
--those labeled “weak” died that very day
Gas Chamber

7. *Prisoners told to go to showers
--chamber w/ fake shower heads
--once doors closed, cyanide gas poured in
-All dead in minutes----bodies sent to crematorium to burn
*6 million Jews entered the camps (give or take)
--fewer than four million survived…..