1. THE HOLOCAUST A WAR WITHIN A WAR

2. The Holocaust: War Within a War GENOCIDE Total annihilation of a race or group of people

3. ANTI-SEMITISM The hatred of Jews

4. Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s failures SCAPEGOATS

5. Jews forced from their homes and relocated to slums called ghettos

6. After 1941 Germany developed ENDLOSUNG (the Final Solution)

7. 1941-1942 – mass extinction of Jews using bullets Method deemed too slow

8. New method – gas chamber Zyklon-B (pesticide at the time for killing bugs, rodents on ships, buildings etc.)

10. Jews separated on arrival to Concentration Camp based on ability to do work

12. Able bodied men in one line Elderly, women, children, sick in the other

13. Men worked to death through attrition or SS beatings

14. Others gassed right away

16. News did not reach England and N. America until 1944

17. Much of it viewed as propoganda since nobody could believe something that bad was possibly true

19. Estimates of 2/3 of all European Jews murdered during this time period

21. Who else? POLICIAL PRISONERS JEHOVAH’S WITNESS POW GYPSIES

22. 6 MILLION DEATHS WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THE HOLOCAUST