Motives, Processes, and
Consequences of the Holocaust
Define these terms:
 1. new order
 8. Kristallnacht
 2. resettlement
 9. Birkenan
 3. Poland
 10. Zyklon B
 4. memorial
 11. yellow star
museum
 5. never again
 6. Elie Wiesel
 7. final solution
 12. genocide
 13. concentration
camp
 14. six million
Key Questions
 How many clues did it take you to identify the topic?
 What is the Holocaust?
 (The Holocaust was a period in German history, during
World War II, when the Nazi leadership attempted to
destroy all European Jews.)
 Which term revealed the topic for you? Have students
speculate on the meaning of each term in relationship
to the Holocaust.
 Why were we able to identify the topic?
 What other word clues could you add to this list?
Modern World History, p. 451
 Why did Hitler blame the Jews for most of Germany’s problems?
 Why was the Nazi strategy to blame Jews for Germany’s problems so
successful with the German people?
 How did the Nazi’s master race theory contribute to anti-Jewish feeling?
 What communications technique did the Nazi’s use to create an antiSemitic movement in Germany? (propaganda over the radio and the use
of motion picture film)
CON 18, “The Poisonous Mushroom.”
 The source of the illustration is
a book, Der Giftpilz (The
Toadstool) by Ernest Hiemer,
published in 1938. It was a
children’s book, sometimes
used in German schools.
 The translation of the picture’s
caption is as follows: “Just as it
is often hard to tell a toadstool
from an edible mushroom, so
too it is often very hard to
recognize the Jew as a swindler
and criminal.”
CON 19 “Excerpts from Mein Kampf”
1. What was Hitler’s motivation for attacking
the Jewish people?
2. Throughout world history, why have
minority groups been singled out for abuse
by majority groups?
3. How might German Jews respond to Hitler’s
ideas as expressed in Mein Kampf?
What does this mean to you?
 “The world is too dangerous to live in -- not
because of the people who do evil, but
because of the people who sit and let it
happen.”

Albert Einstein
 Quote No. 1:
 “Jews should be removed as rapidly as possible from all
Reich territories, in particular because as carriers of
disease they are a great danger to society at large and
as incorrigible black marketeers they are undermining
the economy of the country. Besides our 2.5 million
Jews are totally unfit for work.”
 Quote No. 2:
 “The Jew must get out of Europe. Otherwise we will
get no European understanding. The world over he is
the chief agitator against us. All I can say is that he
must go away. If, in the process, he is bruised, I can’t
help it! If he does not leave voluntarily, I see no
solution other than extermination.”
 Quote No. 3:

 “We fully realize that the war can only end either with
the extermination of the Aryan peoples or the
disappearance of the Jews from Europe. I guarantee
that it will be with the destruction of Jewry.”
 Quote No. 4:

 “My prophecy will be fulfilled. This war will not
destroy Aryan humanity, but will exterminate the Jew.
Such will be the ultimate outcome of this conflict,
whatever its repercussions and no matter how long it
lasts. There can be no peace until the liquidation of
this parasite.”
 Quote No. 5:

 “There is no room for sentimentality. The Jews deserve
the catastrophe in which they are caught up today.
They will experience their own destruction. We must
assist in their effort by hastening this process
impassively, and in so doing render all inestimable
service to humanity which has suffered at the hands of
Jewry for thousands of years.”
Motives, Processes, and
Consequences of the Holocaust
PART 2- (SAME OBJECTIVE)
 DRILL: Get ready to read, write, and share
 GET OUT YOUR HOMEWORK- 14 vocabulary words
Nazi Germany - Minority Groups
READ THIS!!!!-ARTICLE
 Adolf Hitler was familiar with the work of 19th century scientists
who spoke of Northern European blond-haired, blue-eyed
peoples as being Aryan, a ‘Master Race’ because they had
remained racially pure throughout the ages.
 In his book, Mein Kampf (Mein Struggle), Hitler explained how
he believed that the German people were the true Aryan race
and that their purity and superiority had to be maintained at all
costs by prohibiting intermarriage and expelling or eliminating
those who had no place in the master race. Hitler also explained
how the Aryans had been responsible for all major advances in
civilisation but that the Jews wanted to destroy everything they
had achieved.
 The persecution of those who did not fit Hitler’s ideal Aryan
master race began soon after Hitler became Chancellor of
Germany in January 1933. They included Jews, homosexuals,
gypsies, the disabled, Jehovah’s witnesses, political opponents,
the unemployed, the homeless and ethnic minorities.
-7 million non-Jewish Soviet people were killed
-6 million Jews were killed
-2.8 million Soviet prisoners of war were killed
-2.5 million non-Jewish Poles were killed
-1.5 million non-Jewish Poles were sent to forced labor
concentration camps
-500,000 gypsies were killed
-400,000 people were forcibly sterilized
-250,000 disabled people were killed
-15,000 homosexuals were sent to concentration camps
-10,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses were sent to concentration
camps
Read-Answer : Share-Answer
Partner up… read your article and
answer the question that applies. Be
able to explain the basic as well….
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE,
WHY, and HOW.
 Share that answer with the class!
TIMELINE- NAZI GERMANY
Write down the 7 most important
events and place them correctly on
the timeline.
Be able to justify why you chose
those 7.