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HOLOCAUST

Delve into the tragic events of the Holocaust, where millions were targeted for their ethnicity, beliefs, or disabilities. Explore the stages, key figures, methods employed, and the legacy left behind.

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HOLOCAUST

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  1. HOLOCAUST

  2. Important Terms • Eugenics • Race betterment through breeding • Euthanasia • Mercy killing • Sterilization • Inability to reproduce • Ghetto’s • Segregated areas of a city

  3. Nazi’s • Adolf Hitler • Reinhard Heydrich • Oversaw Wannsee Conference • Heinrich Himmler • Commander of SS and Gestapo • 2nd in Germany • Joseph Goebbels • German Propaganda Minister • Adolf Eichmann • Oversaw the Final Solution

  4. Goebbels

  5. Eichmann

  6. Himmler

  7. Heydrich

  8. Germany • Germany • Depression 1920’s and 1930’s • Looked for a way out someone to blame • Hitler writes Mein Kampf • Talks about • Jews are inferior • Jews didn’t fully support Germany in WWI • Could be blamed for troubles in Germany

  9. Aryan Race • Ideal German • Blond hair, blue eyes

  10. 1939-1945 • TARGETS (WHY?) • Jews • Slavs and Poles • Gypsies (Roma and Sinti) • Handicapped (mentally and physically) • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Enemies of the state • Homosexuals

  11. 1939-1945 • 11 million total • 6 million Jews (2/3rds Jewish population) • 5 million others

  12. STAGES OF THE HOLOCAUST • 1. Sterilization • 2. Euthanize handicapped • 3. Final Solution

  13. Sterilization • Cause inferior people to stop reproducing • Injections and radiation • Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring • July 1933 • Sterilize mentally and physically handicapped, epileptic, blind, deaf, or alcoholics • 400,000 by wars end

  14. T-4 Euthanasia Program • 1939-1941 • Put people out of their misery and save Germany from paying for them • Deformed, disabled, handicapped, and mentally ill • 200,000

  15. Nuremberg Laws (1935) • Laws to restrict rights of Jews • 1. Jews could not marry Germans (Hard labor) • 2. No longer citizens, no sexual relations with Germans, no vote, and no public office (Imprisonment) • Defined a Jew as a person with 1 Jewish grandparent

  16. Ghettos • Areas designated for Jews in major cities • Warsaw was the biggest • Warsaw had a major uprising

  17. Kristallnacht • Night of Broken Glass • State sponsored actions against Jews and Jewish businesses • Nov.8th- 9th 1938 • 200 killed • 30,000 to camps • 7,000 stores destroyed • 1,574 synagogues destroyed

  18. Final Solution • Final Solution of the Jewish Problem • Genocide • Rounded up and put into Ghettos • Wait for deportation • 1. Used bullets and injections (Too $) • 2. Work or starve to death (Too slow) • 3. Gas Chambers

  19. Camps • Concentration • Labor and Death • Work for war effort until replaced or die

  20. Camps • Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) • 1.5 million • Treblinka (Poland) • 800,000 • Belzec (Poland) • 436,000 • Majdanek (Poland) • 235,000 • Sobibor (Poland) • 170,000 • Chelmno (Poland) • 152,000

  21. Auschwitz

  22. Auschwitz

  23. Gas Chambers • Started out with exhaust from cars • Moved on to Zyclon B (rat poison) • Efficient and cheap

  24. Auschwitz

  25. Nuremberg Laws • List concentration camps (locations) • Kristallnacht • Targets of the Holocaust • How many people were killed? Jews? • List the 2 major ghettos • Sterilization program was called? • Euthanasia Program was called? • Main stages of the Holocaust • Final solution planner • Final solution implementer • German Propaganda Minister • Wannsee Conference

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