1. Nazi Ideology, Policies, and consequences
The Holocaust
Nazi Ideology, Policies, and consequences

2. Adolf Hitler and Nazi Ideology
Believed in the racial superiority of Aryan race
Other races were inferior
Aryan refers to Indo-European language group (not race)
Germans needed “living space”
Need to expand
Need to “get rid” of people

3. What is the Jewish problem?
Scapegoated for all the problems during and after WWI
Controlled the banks, many businesses
Caused economic problems
Not a “pure” race
Played on historical hatred of Jews
(anti-Semitism)

4. The Final Solution
Systematically exterminate the Jewish people and other groups
Genocide: the murder of an entire group of people

5. Heinrich Himmler and SS
Himmler – Leader of the SS
SS – Schutzstaffeln
Nazi Secret Police
Tasked with carrying out Final Solution and other acts of violence

6. Systematic Murder Einsatzgruppen (SS’s Security Service)
Followed in after regular German army advances
Rounded up Jews into Ghettos
People starving, poor housing
Death Squads: executed Jews; buried in mass graves

7. Death Camps (1939 – 1945)
Jews loaded onto freight cars – shipped to “concentration” camps
30% sent to labor camps (mostly men)
Starved or worked to death
70% sent to gas chambers (mostly women and children
Subjected to cruel and painful “medical” experiments

8. Extent of Atrocities Approx. 6 million Jews were murdered
90% of Jewish population of Poland and Germany murdered
2 out 3 European Jews were killed
9 – 10 million non-Jewish people were murdered
Full extent of the atrocity was not known until Allies liberated camps

9. Nazi Propaganda (Short Video)