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Warm up – Write the Question What were the Nuremburg laws? Reflect on the video we saw "a class divided" and analyze the effects these laws might have had on the Jewish Population of Germany
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THE HOLOCAUST
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Between 1939 and 1945 six million Jews were murdered, along with hundreds of thousands of others, such as Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, disabled and the mentally ill.
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How it Started The Kristallnacht “ Night of Broken Glass” November 9, 1938 Jewish Homes & Businesses attacked and destroyed across Germany Jews forced into “Ghettos” to complete slave labor, (200 calories a day)
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This sign says “Germans! Defend Yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!”
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Hitler’s “Final Solution” Genocide – The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population The Condemned-Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Homosexuals The SS – Hitler’s death Squad
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Jewish women, some holding infants, are forced to wait in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.
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A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution.
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“Work Makes one Free” Gates of Auschwitz
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Meeting in Berlin on January 20, 1942 to plan the execution of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Execution/ concentration camps located mainly in Germany & Poland Camps located near railroad lines Used cyanide gas as primary murder weapon
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Auschwitz - Poland
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CONCENTRATION CAMPS GERMANS EFFICIENT Experiments GAS CHAMBERS- Bullets to expensive
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After liberation, an Allied soldier displays a stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald. Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz, used to make felt-yarn.
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HOLOCAUST STATISTICS
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American Soldiers force the Germans to see what their country has done What responsibility do average Germans have?
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THE HOLOCAUST 6 MILLION JEWS MURDERED 12,000 killed a day in gas chambers 11 million lives lost
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