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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. Genocide of the Jews before and during World War II. Kristallnacht-Crystal Night. The Night of the Broken Glass November 7, 1938 Nazi gangs entered and burned most of the synagogues in Germany broke into Jewish homes and businesses, looted and beat up the occupants

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust Genocide of the Jews before and during World War II

  2. Kristallnacht-Crystal Night • The Night of the Broken Glass • November 7, 1938 • Nazi gangs entered and burned most of the synagogues in Germany • broke into Jewish homes and businesses, looted and beat up the occupants • several hundred Jews committed suicide, more than 1000 murdered, 26,000 are put into concentration camps and fined $1billion marks • <Kristallnacht • Photographs of Burning Synagogues on Kristallnacht

  3. Confining Jews to the Ghetto • Forced Jews to live in the Ghettos (1939-1941) • eventually became transition areas to ship to Concentration Camps • Warsaw being the most famous of the Ghettos • Photos of the Segregation of Jews from Society • Scenes from the Warsaw Ghetto

  4. Warsaw Ghetto uprising • April 19, 1943 starts • hold out for nearly a month • of the 56,000 captured, 7000 are shot • Scenes from the Ghetto uprising • <Germans end the uprising

  5. The Concentration Camps • 6 million plus Jews and over 10 million total people die in concentration camps • killed with a grand program of physical extermination of the entire European Jewish population • The Camps were set up to starve and kill Jews and others • Most notorious is Buchenwald in Germany and Auschwitz outside of Germany • <Map of all Concentration camps in Germany

  6. Photographs from the Camps • Photographs from the Camps • <Corpse laden Cart being emptied by the allies • More Photos from Death Camps

  7. Leader of the Final Solution • <Heinrich Himmler • head of the Nazi Police called Gestapo • in 1929-headed the Schultzstaffel (known as the SS or Black Shirts)-elite military force • 1934-takes over the Gestapo • carries out the Holocaust • captured by the British in 1945-set to stand trial-kills himself instead

  8. Liberation of the Camps • 12th Armored Division liberate the Death Camps

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