32.3 THE HOLOCAUST

WORLD HISTORYPETERSON SCHOOLMR.HOOD

MAIN IDEAEMPIRE BUILDING.

DURING THE HOLOCAUST, HITLER`S NAZIS KILLED SIX MILLION JEWS

AND FIVE MILLION OTHER “NON ARYANS”.

WHY IT MATTERS NOW THE VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS

DURING THE HOLOCAUST LED TO THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL

AFTER WORLD WAR II.

INTRODUCTION

NAZIS PROPOSED A NEW RACIAL

ORDER

GERMANIC PEOPLE OR ARYANS WERE THE “MASTER

RACE”

ALL NON-ARYANS WERE INFERIOR

PARTICULARLY THE JEWISH

THIS RACIST MESSAGE WOULD LEAD TO THE

HOLOCAUST

THE SYSTEMATIC MASS SLAUGHTER

OF JEWS

AND OTHER GROUPS

JUDGED INFERIOR BY THE NAZIS

OBJECTIVE 1TRACE THE COURSE

OF THE PERSECUTION

ADOLF HITLER APPOINTED CHANCELLOR OF

GERMANY 1933

NUREMBERG LAWS OF 1935

DEPRIVED JEWS OF THEIR RIGHTS

KRISTALLNACHT 1938

NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS

KRISTALLNACHT MARKED A MAJOR STEP-UP IN NAZI POLICY OF JEWISH

PERSECUTION

MANY JEWS FLED TO OTHER COUNTRIES

AT FIRST HITLER FAVORED THIS SOLUTION TO “JEWISH

PROBLEM”

“WE ALL WANT TO GET RID OF OUR JEWS. THE

DIFFICULT IS THAT NO COUNTRY WISHES TO RECIEVE THEM”

MANY JEWS REMAINED IN GERMANY + LATER HITLER CONQUERED TERRITORIES WITH

MILLIONS OF JEWS

SO HITLER ORDERED ALL JEWS TO LIVE IN

DESIGNATED CITIES

NAZIS HERDED JEWS INTO OVERCROWDED

GHETTOS

THE NAZIS SEALED OFF GHETTOS WITH BARBED WIRE +

STONE WALLS

THEY HOPED JEWS WOULD STARVE TO DEATH OR DIE

FROM DISEASE

BUT HITLER SOON GREW

IMOPATIENT WAITING FOR JEWS TO DIE

OBJECTIVE 2DESCRIBE THE

RESULTS OF THE “FINAL SOLUTION”.

HITLER DECIDED TO TAKE MORE DIRECT

ACTION

HIS PLAN WAS CALLED THE “FINAL SOLUTION”

IT WAS A

PROGRAM OF GENOCIDE

GENOCIDE IS THE KILLING OF AN ENTIRE

PEOPLE

HITLER BELIEVED HIS PLAN OF CONQUEST…

…DEPENDED ON THE PURITY OF THR ARYAN

RACE

THE NAZIS HAD TO ELIMATE OTHER RACES

+ FOCUSED ESPECIALLY ON THE JEWS

THE S.S. MOVED FROM TOWN TO TOWN TO HUNT DOWN

JEWS

ROUNDED UP MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN AND BABIES

TOOK THEM TO ISOLATED SPOTS AND PUT THEM IN MASS

GRAVES

MEANWHILE THE GHETTOS

WERE LIQUIDATED, OR EMPTIED

JEWS WERE DEPORTED AND TAKEN TO CONCENTRATION

CAMPS

TRANSPORTED IN CATTLE TRAINS

CONCENTRATION CAMPS WERE

SLAVE LABOR CAMPS

JEWISH PRISONERS WERE WORKED OR BEATEN

TO DEATH

HITLER HOPED THE HORRIBLE CONDITIONS WOULD SPEED UP THE

ELIMINATION OF JEWS

BUT BY 1942 THE NAZIS HAD

BUILT EXTERMINATION CAMPS

LIKE AUSCHWITZ

AUSCHWITZ EQUIPPED WITH HUGE GAS

CHAMBERS

GAS CHAMBERS WOULD KILL UP 6,000

JEWS PER DAY

NAZIS INSTALLED CREMATORIUMS, OR OVENS, TO

BURN THE BODIES

6 MILLION JEWS DIED IN THE DEATH

CAMPS

5 MILLION OTHER

NON-ARYANS WERE ALSO KILLED

SOME MANAGED TO ESCAPE AND SHARE THEIR

EXPERIENCES

WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST BECAUSE

OF THEM