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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. Reading: Incorporates into lecture and “Farewell to Manzanar”. Glossary. Anti-Semitism: Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews Holocaust: The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust • Reading: Incorporates into lecture and “Farewell to Manzanar”

  2. Glossary • Anti-Semitism: Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews • Holocaust: The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II • Genocide: The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. • Aryan: Refered to the blond-haired, blue-eyed physical ideal of Nazi Germany • The “Final Solution”:Refers to the Nazis plan to annihilate the Jewish people

  3. Origins Of Hate • At the end of world war one, germans (including hitler) Blamed the jews for germany’s defeat • During Hitler’s Imprisonment in 1923, he wrote the memoir and propaganda tract "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), in which he predicted a general European war that would result in "the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany" • Hitler became obsessed with the purification of germany where the ideal race would be “Aryan” • In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000, or only 1 percent of the total German population

  4. Treatment of Jew prior to war • 1933: Nazis exclude Jews from the Arts. Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land and Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors. • 1934: Jews not allowed national health insurance • 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws Enacted (click the above and Read about race laws) • 1938: Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass (Click above and read about Kristallnacht) • Jews are forced into Ghettos and then into concentration camps

  5. Concentration Camps • Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettoes in Poland to the concentration camps • Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most famous concentration camp where From spring 1942 until the fall of 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over Nazi-occupied Europe approximately three million people had died there (2.5 million exterminated, and 500,000 from disease and starvation

  6. The “Final Solution” After the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, SS and police units (acting as mobile killing units) began massive killing operations aimed at entire Jewish communities In its entirety, the "Final Solution" called for the murder of all European Jews by gassing, shooting, and other means. Approximately six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed during the Holocaust -- two-thirds of the Jews living in Europe before World War II Concentration Camps were liberated by soviet and american troops in 1945

  7. Note to Reader The Holocaust is a very difficult topic to cover in a week I encourage all of you to read more and go into more depth

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