1 / 32

The Nazi Holocaust The Nazis’ genocide of Jews

The Nazi Holocaust The Nazis’ genocide of Jews. Contents. Def. of Genocide and The Holocaust Jews living in Europe Germany and anti-Semitism Reasons for the Holocaust The Nazis’ anti-Semitic racial policy The Ghettos Camps/ Auschwitz& Birkenau Liberation & Beyond References.

azize
Download Presentation

The Nazi Holocaust The Nazis’ genocide of Jews

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The NaziHolocaustThe Nazis’ genocide of Jews

  2. Contents • Def. of Genocide and The Holocaust • Jews living in Europe • Germany and anti-Semitism • Reasons for the Holocaust • The Nazis’ anti-Semitic racial policy • The Ghettos • Camps/ Auschwitz& Birkenau • Liberation & Beyond • References

  3. Genocide: The Holocaust: Def. of Genocide and The Holocaust any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group the Nazis’ systematic genocide of among 6 million Jews during 1938-1945 • http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/index.html • http://www.holocaust-education.dk/holocaust/hvadhvemhvor.asp

  4. Jews living in Europe 2 1 http://www.holocaust.com.au/jn/j_maps.htm http://www.brown.edu/Courses/HI0135/Documents/Nazigenmaps.htm

  5. Jews living in Europe • 1st: map of the age of the European Jewish communities in 1939. Most of them including Germany have existed for many years. • 2nd: map of Jewish population in 1939 in Europe.

  6. Germany and anti-Semitism • anti Jewish sentiment the Nazis used to carry out the persecution & later extermination of the European Jews 2 1 • http://www.holocaust-education.dk/baggrund/antisemitisme.asp

  7. 3 4 5 6 • http://www.holocaust-education.dk/baggrund/antisemitisme.asp

  8. Germany and anti-Semitism • 1st: Caricature of Jews’ preference for money and power in Germany. • 2nd: Jews persecuted and murdered in the Middle Ages. • 3rd: Pseudo-scientific measuring to define the Jews as inferior, threatening the purity of the German, master race.

  9. Germany and anti-Semitism • 4th: The ‘stab-in-the-back’ legend: The Jews got blamed for Germany’s defeat in World WarⅠ. • 5th: Caricature depicting Jews threatening Europe, causing economic crisis in 1930s. • 6th: Malevolent caricature even appeared on the children’s books.

  10. Reasons for the Holocaust • It’s fundamentally based on Anti-Semitism (hostility toward the difference in religion & Jews taking over the money lending business) • Economic: Nazis confiscated property of Jews and sent it into the Treasury of the State to recover from economic crisis. http://kin.naver.com/db/detail.php?d1id=6&dir_id=607&eid=tm88ihPRoudfNh2JLYVlFZQf5hW4PHLj&ts=1129990030

  11. Reasons for the Holocaust • Military:Nazis developed the military employing SA&SS, buying war supplies, conscripting the army through property confiscated from Jews. • Political:using hatred of Jews, induced dissatisfaction of German society to it of Jews, justified the dictatorship of Hitler, evoked the pride of racial identity.

  12. The Nazis’ anti-Semitic racial policy • 1933-34: Boycott of Jewish stores & the Jews are not allowed to work as: civil servants, professors, journalists, artists • 1930's: Physical attacks on Jewish property and people • 1935-39: Jewish property is confiscated, Jews had to emigrate from Germany • 1939-40: Ghettos are established in Poland • 1941: The first organized mass murders (by shooting)& the first gassings (using gassing trucks), Gas chambers and crematoria under construction • 1942: Extermination camps are established and Jews are deported there. • http://www.holocaust-education.dk/baggrund/antisemitisme.asp#Nazisterne%20og%20antisemitisme.asp

  13. 1 2 • http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-boycott.htm 3 • http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm • http://www.holocaust.com.au/jn/n_maps.htm

  14. The Nazis’ anti-Semitic racial policy • 1st: Nazis’ racism in Jews was soon accepted by many Germans. • 2nd: Nazi storm troopers block the entrance to a Jewish-owned store. • 3rd: Adolf Hitler salutes SS troops on parade while SS Leader Himmler watches.

  15. The Ghettos 1 2 • http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm 3 • http://www.brown.edu/Courses/HI0135/Documents/Nazigenmaps.htm • http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm

  16. The Ghettos • 1st: map of Jewish Ghettos in Europe. • 2nd: Jews in Vienna forced to scrub sidewalks. • 3rd: Jewish children in the Lodz Ghetto on their way toward the Chelmno Extermination Camp.

  17. Camps • Concentration camps (1933-1945) imprisoned people in camps because of their “otherness” or in order to use them for forced labor; many purposes • Extermination camps (1941-1945) wereconstructed with one purpose: to mass murder Jews and others(six extermination camps , 3 million Jews were killed) » Combined camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau • http://www.holocaust-education.dk/lejre/

  18. 1 http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/

  19. 2 • http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/eur78940.htm

  20. 3 4 5 • http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-dach-early.htm • http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-warsaw.htm

  21. 7 6 http://www.holocaust-education.dk/lejre/udryddelseslejre.asp 8 http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/CampMisc.htm • http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-einz-42.htm

  22. Camps • 1st: map of concentration and extermination camps • 2nd: map of deportations to extermination camps in occupied Poland; Jews from Germany& German-occupied Europe were deported.

  23. Camps • 3rd: A prisoner in Dachau wearing a triangle patch identification on his chest. • 4th: A chart of prisoner triangle identification markings used in Nazi concentration camps for guards to easily see which type of prisoner was. • 5th: Jewish families arrested in Warsaw Ghetto to be gassed at Treblinka extermination camp.

  24. Camps • 6th: The last Jew left alive at Vinica, Ukraine is about to be shot by SS man, as he kneels on the edge of a mass grave. • 7th: Bodies are burned in Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. • 8th: Crematory.

  25. Auschwitz& Birkenau • functioned as a concentration camp & became the largest killing center • more than 1 million Jews were gassed to death

  26. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-ausch-air.htmhttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-ausch-air.htm http://www.holocaust.com.au/mm/c_flowchart.htm 3 1 2

  27. Auschwitz& Birkenau • 1st: Aerial view of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken by the U.S. Army • 2nd: Aerial view of Birkenau extermination camp

  28. Auschwitz& Birkenau • 3rd: When the victims arrived to the extermination camps in overcrowded trains, men are separated from women (among survivors); the first to be gassed were the men. The SS chose those able to work, while those unable to work were sent to the gas chambers or shot. Their belongings& valuables were handed over before death or those still alive searched the bodies for after death.

  29. Liberation & Beyond http://www.holocaust.com.au/lb/dm_deathtoll.htm http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-poss.htm

  30. Liberation & Beyond • 1st: map of the number of Jews murdered in Nazi-dominated Europe between 1939-1945. • 2nd: An enormous pile of clothing taken from children who were gassed at Auschwitz.

  31. Liberation & Beyond • 3rd: Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz, used to make felt-yarn. • 4th: A stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald.

  32. References • http://www.historyplace.com • http://www.holocaust.com.au • http://www.holocaust-education.dk • http://www.ushmm.org • http://www.brown.edu/Courses/HI0135/Documents/Nazigenmaps.htm • www.auschwitz.dk • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/games/nazi_genocide_timeline/noflash.shtml • http://kin.naver.com/db/detail.php?d1id=6&dir_id=607&eid=tm88ihPRoudfNh2JLYVlFZQf5hW4PHLj&ts=1129990030

More Related