The Holocaust
1. Who?
Who are the victims of the
Holocaust?
• Non Aryan people / mostly Jews
Who were the members of the
“master race”?
• Aryans (a non-Jewish
Caucasian, esp. of Nordic
stock.)
2. What?
What are the Nuremburg laws?
• German Laws depriving Jews of
their rights
What happened on the night of
Nov. 9, 1938?
• Kristallnacht
What was Hitler’s “final solution”?
• Planned killing of entire groups
of non-Aryans
3. Where?
Where did German Jews try to
migrate to find safety from Nazi
terror?
• France, Britain, & U.S.
Where were Jews forced to live in
German-controlled cities?
• Ghettos – segregated Jewish
districts
Where were the concentration
camps?
• Germany & Poland
4. Why?
Why did Hitler believe that Jews &
other “subhumans” had to be
exterminated?
• To protect Aryan “purity”
Why did the Germans build
extermination camps?
• To eliminate large numbers of
people
• Used gas (zyklon B), shootings,
beatings, experiments, etc.
5. When?
When did the final stage of the
“final solution” take place?
• Early 1942
6. How?
How did non-Jewish people try to
save Jews from the horrors of
Nazism?
• By hiding them or helping them
to escape
How many Jews died in the
Holocaust?
• Approx: 6,000,000