 What does the word
Holocaust mean?
 Legislation and
Deportation
 The Pyramid of Hate
 Holocaust Art
 The Final Solution –
Documentary and handout.

 Genocide – 6 million Jewish civilians were executed systematically.
 Slavery – entire populations are enslaved in order to serve the Nazi war effort.
 Nazism – Also, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives of POWs, homosexuals, physically/mentally disabled, political oppositions.
 from the Greek meaning “a burnt offering to the gods”, or sacrifice by fire.

Stage 4: Execution and extermination off all
Jews and the Mass Murder of None-Arians
Stage 3: The Concentration of the Jews
Stage 2: Nazi control of the
Legal System
Stage 1 : A large foundation of Anti-
Semitism

Stage One and Two– A large foundation of Anti-Semitism and the Nazi control of the legal system
1933
 January – Hitler takes power
 March – Dachau concentration camp is opened
 April – Boycott of Jewish Shops
Jews lose legal, civil and economic rights
Jews are dismissed from universities, the press etc.
Jewish books are burned
German Jews are forced to wear the Yellow Star of David
1935
 The Nuremberg Laws: Jews become non-people because they are made up of
“impure blood”.

 Biased based ands stories meant to convince people to believe an idea.

The Concentration of the Jews:
 1938 – The Night of Broken Glass
-20,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
-91 were killed and 7,000 shops were looted.
-The Jews were fined 1billion marks.

 Laws passed between 1933 and 1935 aimed to reduce the future number of genetic “inferiors” through involuntary sterilization programs (about 500 children of mixed
African/German) racial backgrounds and 320,000 to
350,000 individuals judged physically or mentally handicapped were subjected to surgical or radiation procedures so that they could not have children.
 Between 1933 and 1938, thousands of people were imprisoned in concentration camps. The systematic roundups of German-Austrian Jews occurred after the night of broken glass.

 Jews were placed in Ghettos (slum areas of the city that were surrounded by barbed wire and walls).
 The Ghettos were dirty and overcrowded and food was limited by the
Nazis.
 If a Jew was caught outside the walls they could be killed.
 Jews not placed in ghettos they were sent to concentration camps.
 1941: Jews are moved to concentration camps like Dachau,
Auschwitz.

Jews were sealed in camps where starvation, overcrowding, exposure to cold, disease were common.

 The execution and extermination of all Jews (6,000,000)
 Between 1942 and 1944, the Germans moved to eliminate the ghettos in occupied Poland and elsewhere, deporting ghetto residents to “extermination camps”, killing centre's equipped with gassing facilities located in Poland.
 After the meeting of senior German government officials in late
January 1942 the decision to implement “the final solution of the
Jewish question” became formal state policy.
 Please view the following documentary: The Hoffman Collection –
How Hitler Lost the War“The Final Solution”.