The Holocaust “Never Forget, Never Again.”

1. The Holocaust“Never Forget, Never Again.” By: Tim Green

2. Background • Hitler’s new order in Europe grew out of his racial obsessions outlined in his autobiography: Mein Kampf or “My Struggle.”

3. Background • Wanted to establish the “Aryan” race: a genetically superior race (according to Hitler) • Characterized by: Light skin, blonde hair, & blue eyes

4. Background • Hitler continued pushing east to provide more “living space” for Germans • Conquered lands were used as economic resources • Slavs, Jews, and other “inferior” races were killed, tortured, sent to ghettos, or used as slave laborers in German war industries

5. Anti-Semitism • Anti-Semitism: the hatred of Jews (Hitler exposed to in his youth) • Historically Jews have been outcasts • Pagans disliked them for having one God, Christians blamed them for Christ’s death and refusal to assimilate in Europe

6. Anti-Semitism • In the 1920s and 30s, there were many successful Jewish owned businesses/banks in Germany. • resentful of jobs and money during the Great Depression “60,000 RM is what this person with genetic Defects costs the community during his Lifetime. Fellow Germans, that’s your Money too…”

7. Anti-Semitism • Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat • blamed for WWI (not giving enough $, bad/shady business deals with other countries, Balfour Declaration) • Jewish leaders in socialist and communist groups "The Jew: The inciter of war, the prolonger of war."

8. Anti-Semitism • Hitler wanted a “pure” Aryan race • Other groups persecuted: mentally and physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, Slavs, Gypsies

9. Nazi Propaganda Film: The Eternal Jew Don’t buy from Jews. Buy from German Businesses.

10. Nazi Propaganda • “One eats the other and the Jew devours them all..." The cartoon promotes the Nazi claim that the Jews were behind World War II, having orchestrated it to destroy Nazi Germany.

11. Nazi Propaganda • "Nailed down."

12. Nazi Propaganda • "The Polyp." • A Jew has his tentacles around England, Russia, the United States, and China.

13. Kristallnacht • Kristallnacht: “crystal night” – night of the broken glass • Jewish homes, shops, and synagogues were ransacked and destroyed with sledgehammers

14. Kristallnacht cont.

15. Nazi Genocide Begins… • At first, Jews were forced to live in ghettos and concentration camps • Genocide: systematic, deliberate murder of a race of people. • The Complete History of the Holocaust by Mitchell G. Bard

16. “Final Solution” • In 1941, German leaders, like Heinrich Himmler, devised plans for the “final solution of the Jewish problem.” • The deliberate murder of all European Jews • To accomplish this “solution,” Hitler had special death camps built • See excerpts from: IBM and the Holocaust Himmler

17. Death Camps • Nazi engineers designed efficient ways of killing millions of men, women, and children • Young, elderly, and sick were targeted for immediate killing • “Shower rooms” were used to gas herds of Jews • Some were used in medical “experiments” • Video: Children Remember the Holocaust Cold Water Immersion Experiment

18. Auschwitz • Considered to be the worst of all Nazi Death Camps…

19. Auschwitz

20. The Holocaust • Holocaust: “completely burnt”. • The systematic extermination of about 6 million Jews. • Collaborators: people that helped the Nazis hunt down the Jews • Faces of the Holocaust Video Series

21. Nuremburg Trials • Axis leaders tried for “crimes against humanity.” • Nuremberg: city where war crimes trials took place • 177 Germans and Austrians tried…142 were found guilty • 12 of the top Nazis received death sentences • Video: Holocaust: World War II: Nuremburg Trials

22. Holocaust Photos

33. Other Genocides… • Armenian Genocide (Turkey): 1.5 million • Cambodia: 1.7 million • Croatia (Serbs): 56,000 – 600,000 • Ethiopia: 500,000 • Rwanda: 937,000 • Kurds (Iraq) • Bosnia & Herzegovina (Serbs) • Darfur (Sudan): 2 million (both sides)

34. The Holocaust “Never Forget” “Never Again”