1. Prejudice, Intolerance and Violence Germany’s Plan of Superiority

2. Anti-Semitism This term came to mean hostilities towards the Jewish race With rise of Nationalism, German use of this term became the “Official Policy of Nation” Started the move toward removing all Jews from society The less significant, culturally impoverished races exist to serve the master race

3. Holocaust Greek origin meaning: “sacrifice by fire” Germans believed: They were “racially superior” Deemed Jews “inferior and unworthy of life” Other groups targeted were Gypsies, Handicapped, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Homosexuals

4. Systematic Persecution of Jews Started with nonviolent measures, such as removal from civil service Enforced economic impediments Discrimination against the Jewish religion Nuremburg Laws – Stripping of all rights within Germany

5. Mass Violence Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) Destroyed 200 Synagogues 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed Over 800 Jews killed Laid groundwork for Roundup & Elimination Deportation to Ghettos/Forced Labor Camps

6. Operation Reinhard Codename for plan to finally destroy the Jews Also known as the “Final Solution” Began in October 1941 with movement of Jews from Ghettos to work/death camps

7. Main Entrance to Auschwitz

8. Drawing of Auschwitz Compound

9. Auschwitz-Birkenau ThenNow ARBEIT MACHT FREI (Work brings Freedom)

10. Items Confiscated from the Prisoners Sacks of Human Hair Shoes and Clothing

11. Entrance to gas chamber. Fences overlap surrounding Auschwitz

12. Remains found in Crematorium

13. Auschwitz Camp Survivors Examination by Soviet Physician after Liberation

14. Astonishing Numbers In 1933, the Jewish Population of Europe stood at over nine million By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the “Final Solution”