1. The Holocaust
Chapter 24 Section 3

2. Nuremberg Laws Laws to limit the rights of Jews
Defined a Jew as someone w/ at least one Jewish grandparent
Excluded Jews from German citizenship
Forbid marriages b/w Jews and Germans
Jews required to wear yellow “Stars of David”
Jews required to carry ID cards saying they were Jewish

3. Kristallnacht November 9, 1938 (night of broken glass)
7,500 Jewish businesses were burned and destroyed
Over 180 synagogues were burned and destroyed
90 Jews lay dead, hundreds were badly injured, and thousands were terrorized
Approx. 30,000 Jewish males sent to concentration camps

4. Further Restrictions Jews were barred from…
Public schools
Public transportation
Hospital
Owning, managing, or working in any retail store
Jews were urged to emigrate FROM Germany by the SS

5. The SS
Heinrich Himmler – leader of the SS – a force for maintaining order
SS 2 basic principles
1. terror (including domination, cruelty, & murder)
2. ideology (Nazi beliefs)
SS chief goal – to further the Aryan master race
Gestapo - Secret police of the govt.
Under the overall administration of the SS

6. Hitler’s Secret Agenda
Final Solution – Hitler’s plan to get rid of all the Jews
Decided on January 20, 1942 at the Wannsee Conference
The plan was to round up the Jews and take them to either a concentration camp or an extermination camp

7. The Camps Concentration camps Extermination camps
Healthy people taken here to work as slave laborers until they dropped dead of exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition
Extermination camps
These camps were attached to many concentration camps
Those unable to work were sent here to be executed in massive gas chambers
Kids, elderly, handicapped, mentally ill, etc.

8. Hitler at a large political rally at the pinnacle of power
The Dark Side of WW2
Hitler at a large political rally at the pinnacle of power

9. Hitler’s Youth (German Boy Scouts!)

10. Jews being “selected for death” upon reaching the concentration camp
Jews being “selected for death” upon reaching the concentration camp. (see woman w/baby)

11. Prisoners fight for food in the camp

12. Children were not spared from starvation

15. Mass grave of prisoners

16. Mass grave

17. Crematorium

18. Crematorium