Holocaust
HOLOCAUST: NAZI GENOCIDE OF JEWS AND
OTHERS DURING W.W. II
GENOCIDE: INTENTIONAL KILLING OF PEOPLE
BASED ON RACE
HITLER’S RACISM:
TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM + ARYAN
MYTHOLOGY + CLASS ENVY +BLAME GAME
BLAME GAME: COMMUNISM, AND GERMANY’S
MILITARY AND ECONOMIC HARD TIMES WERE
CAUSED BY JEWS
1933 HITLER TO POWER
FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMPS- FOR POLITICAL
PRISONERS, LATER EXCLUSIVELY FOR JEWS
1935 NUREMBERG LAWS
LEGAL HARRASSMENT: JEWS COULD NOT MARRY
NON-JEWS
JEWS WERE NON CITIZENS
1938 KRISTALLNACHT
NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS
JEWS BEAT UP; 100 KILLED, 26,000 ARRESTED,
JEWISH BUSINESSES DESTROYED
1939 START OF WW II
RELOCATIONS AND GHETTOS – FORCE ALL JEWS TO
LIVE TOGETHER
WORK CAMPS ON LARGE SCALE
1941 THE FINAL SOLUTION
DECISION TO EXTERMINATE ALL JEWS
WORK CAMPS NOW BECOME DEATH CAMPS
HIMMLER AND
HEYDRICH
1945 THE END OF WAR
CAMP SURVIVORS LIBERATED
1945 THE END OF WAR
CAMP SURVIVORS LIBERATED
1945 THE END OF WAR
CAMP SURVIVORS LIBERATED