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Explore the major events, causes, and impact of the Holocaust through a timeline study. Learn about the systematic eradication of undesirables, tactics used by Nazis, and the ultimate consequences of this dark period in history.
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After the QUIZ: • Turn in quiz to folder on side table • Number your pages according to the agenda • Start to read the Intro to the Holocaust#148 • Read the excerpt from Moshe Flinker and answer the two questions.
Objectives • Content: Label the major events of the Holocaust on a timeline. • Learning: List the causes of the Holocaust.
What Caused It? • Anti-Semitism –discrimination against Jews and Aryan superiority
http://echoesandreflections.org/the-lessons/lessons-components/ - Antisemitism - Judith Becker clip
What Was It? • Systematic attempt to rid Europe of all undesirables, including: Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, physically and mentally handicapped
Tactics used by the Nazis • Propaganda • Boycott of Jewish stores • Threats • Segregation • Imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in concentration camps and death camps
Nuremberg Laws were passed barring Jews from holding many jobs. The Nazis encouraged boycotts of Jewish owned shops and businesses.
Objectives • Content: Label the major events of the Holocaust on a timeline. • Learning: List the causes of the Holocaust and explain what ended it.
Nazi boycott signs: “Germans defend yourself against Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German shops.”
Concentration camps opened to concentrate those against the government
Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” in 1938, marked the actual beginning of the Holocaust. 1000 synagogues were set on fire.
Some were neighbors • Friends, Friends 2
Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the beginning of World War II.A train carrying German troops to Poland says“We are going to Poland to thrash the Jews.”
German soldiers enjoyed the public humiliation of Polish Jews.
German soldiers in Poland teach two Jewish men how to give the Nazi salute correctly.
Jews were segregated from the rest of society.The sign says, “Jews are forbidden to walk on this side of the street.”
Jews were forced to wear arm badges, or badges with the Star of David.
Hitler ordered all Jews to be removed to ghettoes (Warsaw Ghetto). They could bring only what they could carry.
A ghetto ration card entitles the holder to 300 calories a day.
Concentration and Work Camps - Intent to exterminate Jews and others by labor and service to German war effort
1941- 1942The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing squads. They killed approximately 1,500,000 Jews.
Objectives • Content: Compare and contrast Japanese internment and the Holocaust • Learning: Reflect on what happened in the Holocaust and what the consequences should be.
In 1942, the Nazis opened concentration camps to carry out the “Final Solution” <– kill all the Jews
At Auschwitz-Birkenau, one million Jews and one million non-Jews were killed.
A warehouse full of shoes and clothing confiscated from concentration camp prisoners.
The last words of inmates at a death camp are carved into these walls.
By late 1943, the Germans began dismantling the death camps to cover up their crimes. In 1945, they sent prisoners walking to central Germany. - Death marches
As Allied troops entered the Nazi-occupied areas, concentration camp survivors were rescued and liberated.
Young and old survivors cheered the approaching Allied troops.
Slave laborers at one concentration camp survived in spite of the overcrowding, lack of food, hard labor and psychological torture.
After the war, Allied forces forced German civilians to witness the atrocities that had occurred in their own backyards.
In 1945 -1946 the Germans were tried at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. This brought 22 Nazi officials to court.