1. The Final Solution: The Holocaust

2. Reichstag Speech January 30, 1939 In a speech that Hitler gave to a Reichstag in 1939 Hitler promised that should another war happen, the Jews would be to blame and the war would end with the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!” http://holocaust-forum.blogspot.com/2010/03/german-reichstag-passes-enabling-act.html

3. Wansee Conference Adolf Eichmann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eichmann,_Adolf.jpg http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/Wannsee/wanseeminutes.html

4. Heydrich instructed to began preparations for the “Final Solution of the Jewish Problem.” “approximately 11,000,000 Jews were to be involved in this Final Solution...” 34 territories: – From Ireland to the Soviet Union. http://ww2today.com/20th-january-1942-nazis-meet-to-organise-final-solution

5. Auschwitz Served as an extermination camp from March 1942- November 1944. 32,000-34,000 Jews were killed per month. Crematoriums could dispose of 3,000 bodies a day. Fifteen bodies could be cremated at the same time. 31 incinerators. http://sacred-sites.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Auschwitz-birkenau-main_track.jpg

6. Gas Chambers http://ww2today.com/5th-october-1941-russian-pows-marched-through-poland http://www.pzg.biz/zyklon-b.htm

7. Liberation of Auschwitz—January 27, 1945 In two years, 1.6 million people died in Auschwitz. President Eisenhower ordered camera crews to record this event. Why?

8. Journal Question How can you use the primary documents from today’s class, and last class period, to refute one who denies the happening of the Holocaust?