The Holocaust
Agenda
• Bell Ringer: Finish Test (15)
• Debate: The true beginning of World War II
(30)
• The Holocaust through interviews (25)
• Hollywood and the Holocaust (5)
• Image Analysis of the Holocaust (10)
• If we have time: Steps towards a Genocide
Hitler and the Jews
• He had an animosity for
the Jewish people since
World War I.
• Utilized Jews as
scapegoats for
everything, from the loss
of war, to hyperinflation
and depression.
• As dictator, he would
spread propaganda to
brainwash the German
people.
Nuremburg Laws
• 1935, all Jews barred from
Civil Service, those positions
going to Aryans.
• Jews are no longer German
citizens
• They cannot associate with
Aryans.
• Later, required to wear the
Star of David.
• German diplomat murdered
in 1938, led to the “night of
broken glass”
The move to the ghetto
• By the late 1930s, after the
“night of broken glass”, Jews
were moved into ghettos.
“Kristallnacht”
• Equivalent to tenements,
they were forced to leave
their homes and
possessions for confiscation
by the Nazi’s
• Now they crowded into
rooms that held up to 16
people when it should only
hold two or three.
Warsaw
• Most famous ghetto
• Bricked off from the rest
of the city, for Jews it was
like a prison.
• In reality it was a holding
camp, for the
extermination that was to
follow in a few years.
• Food riots were quickly
quelled by Nazi secret
police forces.
Final Solution
• The systematic killing of
Jews.
• Einsatzgruppen utilized
as mass killing squads.
• Others rounded up and
taken to Concentration
Camps.
– Beaten and killed when
they did not work hard
enough at the camps.
The Camps: Day 2
Agenda
• Bell Ringer: What is Kristallnacht? How does it
lead to the Holocaust?
• Lecture Notes: Concentration Camps (20)
• Life in a Concentration Camp Primary Analysis
(15)
• Photo Analysis: From the Camps (10)
• Quick Video: The Camps (25)
• Outline Information (15)
The Use of the Camps
• Initially used as work
camps, companies such as
IG Farben would use
prisoners to work.
• By 1942 gas chambers were
created, and death camps
were common.
• Auschwitz is the most
notorious.
• 90% of Jewish population in
Poland killed.
Final Extermination
• Two lines, one to take a
“shower” and the other to be
numbered and put into the
camp
• The Jewish prisoners would
remove all clothing, heads
were shaved, and any
valuables were taken
(including fillings from teeth).
• Then they were sent to work
until they died from starvation
or abuse from the guards.
After the War
• London, many cities in
Germany, and parts of the
Soviet Union lay in ruins.
• Conferences were held in
Yalta and Potsdam to
discuss how countries
would recover after the war,
and the division of lands
held by Germany.
• United Nations was formed,
with permanent members
controlling a peacekeeping
force.
Nuremberg and Occupation
• Germans were held liable
for the atrocities of the
Holocaust.
• 22 leaders charged with
crimes against humanity.
• Hermann Goring kills
himself after being
sentenced to execution,
along with 11 others.
• Similar trials occur in Japan
as MacArthur restructures
the government into
Democracy.
Japanese Internment Camps
• After Pearl Harbor, there
was animosity and distrust
with Japanese-Americans.
• 66% were American
citizens, but they were
forced into “internment
camps” for the duration of
the war.
• 31,000 detained simply
because of their race…
sound familiar?