Chapter 16: WWII & It's Aftermath

Chapter 16: WWII & It's Aftermath Section 3: The Holocaust

The Holocaust • Schutzstaffel = Security Squadron (SS) • Rounded up the Jews

Persecution Begins Pages: 542-544

Persecution Begins • HOLOCAUST • The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, ½ were Jews • RACIAL PURITY

Persecution Begins • JEWS TARGETED (543) • Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust, but they were the main targets of the Nazis • Anti-Semitism = hatred of Jews • Hitler said the Jews were responsible for Germany’s economic problems and Germany’s defeat after WWI

Persecution Begins • JEWS TARGETED (con’t) • Nuremberg Laws – stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property • Jews had to wear bright yellow Star of David

Persecution Begins • Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass” (543) • November 9-10, 1938 • Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues • Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction

Persecution Begins • A FLOOD OF JEWISH REFUGEES (543-544) • Jews fleeing Germany had trouble finding nations to accept them • France said NO • Britain said NO • USA said NO because Americans worried that Jews would take their Jobs • Also, Americans worried that the Jews were “enemy agents”

Persecution Begins • THE PLIGHT OF THE ST. LOUIS (544) • St. Louis was a German ocean liner • The St. Louis brought Jews to America but America refused and told them to go back to Europe • When the ship got back to Europe ½ of the passengers were killed in the Holocaust

Hitler's "Final Solution" Pages: 544-546

Hitler's "Final Solution" • THE FINAL SOLUTION • Genocide – the killing of all Jews in EUROPE not just in Germany

Hitler's "Final Solution" • THE CONDEMNED (545) • Jews • Communists, socialists, liberals • Anyone who spoke out against the German Government

Hitler's "Final Solution" • THE CONDEMNED (con’t) • Gypies – Nazis said they were an inferior race • Freemasons – Nazis said they were part of the “Jewish Conspiracy” to rule the world • Jehovah’s Witnesses – would not join German army or salute Hitler

Hitler's "Final Solution" • THE CONDEMNED (con’t) • Homosexuals, mentally ill, incurably ill, and the physically disabled • Hitler felt the above groups were unfit for the master “Aryan Race”

Hitler's "Final Solution" • FORCED RELOCATION (545) • Jews were ordered to live in the ghettos • The ghettos were sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls

Hitler's "Final Solution" • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (546) • They were labor camps • Families were separated • Those put in the camps worked from dawn to dusk • If you were too weak to work you were killed

THE FINAL STAGE Pages 547-549

THE FINAL STAGE • Concentration Camps • Murder by poison gas started in 1942

THE FINAL STAGE • MASS EXTERMINATIONS (547-548) • Germans built six death camps in Poland • Auschwitz was the largest death camp • USED • Poison Gas, 12,000 killed a day • You were shot, hanged, or injected with poisonous gas • Medical Experiments were performed on the Jews

THE FINAL STAGE • THE SURVIVORS (549) • Roughly six million Jews died in the death camps • Some Jews escaped through the help of ordinary people who were appalled by the Nazis

THE END

Chapter 16: WWII & It's Aftermath