Warm-Up: Answer the following questions in your notebook (this is

just your opinion)

• What is a hate crime? • Why do you think hate crimes happen?

The Holocaust

10th GradeWorld History

What exactly are we talking about?

• Holocaust: the destruction or slaughter of human life on a mass scale.

• The Holocaust: The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45.

****Note: Jews were the primary victims– 6 million were murdered; Gypsies, handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and homosexuals also suffered grievous oppression and death.

Why did it happen?

The Holocaust took place because individuals, groups, and nations made decisions to act or not to act.

Kristallnacht: “Night of Broken Glass”

• Nov. 9, 1938– Nazis storm troopers

attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues throughout Germany.

• Approx. 100 Jews were murdered

• 30,000 men sent to concentration camps

Hitler Looks For Solutions to His “Jewish Problem”

• 1st: Emigration– Eventually countries

tired of accepting refugees

• 2nd: Ghettos– Segregated

neighborhoods where Jews were forced to live

• 3rd Final Solution

Final Solution

• Hitler’s systematic killing of Jews• Sent to concentration (extermination camps)– Auschwitz (largest)

• Gas chambers– Could kill up to 6,000 people/day

Death Camp Locations

Warm-Up: Using what you have learned in the previous

day’s lesson, copy and answer the questions

• What happened during Kristallnacht? • What was the reasoning behind Hitler’s “Final

Solution?

Auschwitz: Map

Auschwitz: Aerial View

Notice how the Death camp is set out like a factory complex

The Nazis used industrial methods to murder the Jews

and process their dead bodies

Gas Chambers: Outside

Notice the Ovens easy located near the Gas Chambers

Gas Chambers: Inside

Dead Bodies for Processin