 Systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior.
 Hitler favored the _____________ or “master race”
 Aryan refers to Indo-European peoples who began to migrate into the Indian sub-continent

 Stir up hatred/indoctrinate-(propaganda link) http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/exhibit.html#/ gallery/
 Identification of Jews
 Slowly take away citizenship/personal freedoms
 Segregation Laws-Nuremburg race laws
 Ghettos
 Concentration Camps
 Death Camps

 Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the dissenting clergy, disabled,
Communists, Socialists, asocial, and other political enemies.
 http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/People/Victims.htm
 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143
&MediaId=3372

 Of the 60 million World War II deaths, _______ million people died in German death camps including 3.5 million Russians, and 6 million
Jews (2/3rds of all European Jews)
 The word ________________ was given to the killing of the 6 million Jews because it was a war of extermination designed to wipe out an entire group of people.
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Hitler’s “Final Solution”
 Systematic genocide

 Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
 April 1, 1933 - Nazis stage a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
 April 11, 1933 - Nazis issue a decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-
Aryan, especially Jewish parents or grandparents. One Jewish parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-
Aryan.

 July 14, 1933 - Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass a law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their
German citizenship.
 July 1933Nazis pass laws allowing for forced sterilization of those found by a Hereditary
Health Court to have genetic defects.
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Nov 24, 1933 - Nazis pass a Law against
Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
Sept 15, 1935 – Nuremburg Laws

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Deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship , giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich.
 The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans.
 The Nuremberg Laws had the unexpected result of causing confusion and heated debate over who was a "full Jew."
 The Nazis settled on defining a "full Jew" as a person with three Jewish grandparents. Those with less were designated as Mischlinge .
 After the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, a dozen supplemental Nazi decrees were issued that eventually outlawed the Jews completely, depriving them of their rights as human beings.

The white figures represent
Aryans; the black figures represent
Jews; and the shaded figures represent
Mischlinge.

 July 23, 1938 - Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for Identification cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer.
 November 1938Kristallnacht “Night of Broken
Glass” Jewish homes and businesses destroyed.
100 Jewish people are killed
 Oct 1939Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005200&MediaId=881
 March 7, 1941 - German Jews ordered into forced labor.

 The Jewish people were forced to live in designated areas of European cities.
 The areas were sealed off with barbed wire and stone blocks
 Many Jewish people starved to death or died of disease.

One of the most famous photos taken during the Holocaust shows Jewish families arrested by Nazis during the destruction of the Warsaw
Ghetto in Poland, and sent to be gassed at
Treblinka extermination camp.

 The Nazis plan to annihilate the Jewish population.
 To carry out the final solution there were three types of concentration camps
• Labor camps
• Holding camps
• Death camps

 If you survived the ghetto you could eventually be transported to a concentration camp or death camp
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 Concentration Camps were areas to hold Jews and others considered in superior. People were starved and worked to death.
bhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=1000518
9&MediaId=3371e murdered http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145&
MediaId=210

 Many Jews taken to concentration camps, or labor camps
 families often separated
 Camps were originally prisons; given to the SS to warehouse “undesirables”
 Prisoners were crammed into wooden barracks and given little food
 Work dawn to dusk, 7 days per week
 Those too weak to work are killed

"The brute Schmidt was our guard; he beat and kicked us if he thought we were not working fast enough. He ordered his victims to lie down and gave them 25 lashes with a whip, ordering them to count out loud. If the victim made a mistake, he was given 50 lashes. . . .
Thirty or 40 of us were shot every day. A doctor usually prepared a daily list of the weakest men.
During the lunch break they were taken to a nearby grave and shot. They were replaced the following morning by new arrivals from the transport of the day.
. . . It was a miracle if anyone survived for five or six months in Belzec." —RUDOLF REDER quoted in The
Holocaust

 Places where people were transported for extermination
 Many were gassed and then either buried in mass graves or cremated
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 bhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=3371e murdered
Video link liberation of Majdanek http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145&MediaId=210
Video link-Auschwitz liberation http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005151&MediaId=238

 Systematic killing began in 1941 and by Jan. 27,
1945 Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated
2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000
Jews, have been murdered there.
 April 29, 1945 - U.S. 7th
Army liberates Dachau .

 The saying from the Holocaust is
Never Forget.
 Why is their still genocide in the world?
 What makes the Holocaust different from other genocides

Country
POLAND
USSR
HUNGARY
GERMANY
FRANCE
ROMANIA
AUSTRIA
LITHUANIA
NETHERLANDS
BOHEMIA
MORAVIA
LATVIA
SLOVAKIA
YUGOSLAVIA
GREECE
BELGIUM
ITALY
ESTONIA
LUXEMBOURG
TOTAL
Initial Jewish
3,300,000
3,020,000
800,000
566,000
350,000
342,000
185,000
168,000
140,000
Estimated %
Killed
91%
36%
74%
36%
22%
84%
35%
85%
71%
118,310
95,000
88,950
78,000
77,380
65,700
44,500
4,500
3,500
9,508,340
60%
84%
80%
81%
87%
45%
17%
44%
55%
63%
71,150
80,000
71,000
63,300
67,000
28,900
7,680
2,000
1,950
5,962,129
Estimated
Killed
3,000,000
1,100,000
596,000
200,000
77,320
287,000
65,000
143,000
100,000
47,160
15,000
17,950
14,700
10,380
36,800
36,820
2,500
1,550
3,546,211
Number of
Survivors
300,000
1,920,000
204,000
366,000
272,680
55,000
120,000
25,000
40,000

 There have been many massacres during the course of world history. And the Nazis murdered many non-Jews in concentration camps.
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What is unique about Hitler’s Final Solution of the
Jewish Problem,” was the Nazi’s determination to murder without exception every single Jew who came within grasp, and the fanaticism, ingenuity, and cruelty with which they pursued their goal.

 A prisoner in Dachau is forced to stand without moving for endless hours as a punishment. He is wearing a triangle patch identification on his chest.
 A chart of prisoner triangle identification markings used in Nazi concentration camps which allowed the guards to easily see which type of prisoner any individual was.

Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943 exhuming bodies in the ravine at Babi
Yar, where the Nazis had murdered over
33,000 Jews in September of 1941.

Survivors in Mauthausen open one of the crematoria ovens for American troops who are inspecting the camp.

A warehouse full of shoes and clothing confiscated from the prisoners and deportees gassed upon their arrival.
The Nazis shipped these goods to
Germany.

1. Research one of the following topics to present to the class through a SHORT power point.
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People targeted
Mobile Killing Squads
Kristallnacht
Nazi Medical experiments
Survivor story
Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe
Jewish resistance attempts
Aftermath/punishment
2 . Create a short power point explaining your topic and its significance in the
Holocaust.
 Slides should not be wordy
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Include at least 3 pictures
No more than 10 slides
Have a title slide and resource slide
Power point design should be visually pleasing and easy to read
3. Provide fill in notes for the class-you must provide a copy to me the day before you present!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Presentations should be shared by the group.
5. Be sure to have good eye contact and an audible voice.
6. Do not read directly from your power point!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good site to use for a reference
 http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/ sitemap/sitemap.htm