The Holocaust

1. The Holocaust

2. Pyramid of Hate • This pyramid shows how hate can escalate into something more than just discrimination but into extermination.

3. What is Genocide? • The Systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

4. Elements Leading to the Holocaust • Totalitarianism combined with Nationalism • History of Anti-Semitism • Defeat in World War I • Hitler’s belief in the Master Race • The Final Solution

5. Elements Leading to the Holocaust 1. Totalitarianism • Centralized control by an autocratic authority and the political concept that the citizens should be totally subjected to an absolute state authority

6. 2. Nationalism Loyalty and devotion to a nation; and a sense of national consciousness exalting ones nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups. Elements Leading to the Holocaust

7. Elements Leading to the Holocaust 3. Anti-Semitism • Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

8. Elements Leading to the Holocaust 4. Master Race • Used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of Non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features. • Blond hair and Blue eyes • Known as the Aryan Race Chart Showing the Races of Germany

9. Elements Leading to the Holocaust 5. Final Solution • The Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people. • Plan included many stages that included • Ghettos • Camps • Transportation • Gas Chambers • Crematories

10. Ghettos • An area within a city that all Jews were forced to live. • Food rations and living conditions were very poor. • Major Ghettos • Warsaw • Lodz • Kovno

11. The Camps • Types of Camps • Concentration/Labor • Extermination/Death • Major Camps • Dauchau-Buchenwald • Auschwitz • Treblinkia • Bikenau

12. Transportation • Systematic Deportation • Boxcar • 100+ people in one car • Doors were bolted shut • No place to sit down • Often people were forced to pay for their transportation • No food or water given.

13. Gas Chambers • Many victims did not know of their death • Gas Chambers were referred to as Baths/Showers • Zyklon B – was used as a poison • Millions of people came to their deaths.

14. Crematoriums • Prisoners were forced to staff the crematoriums. • Their job was to remove all valuables from the victims. • Burned bodies

15. Is the Holocaust the only modern day genocide??Do we truly learn from history?Let’s take a look!

16. Armenian Genocide • 1915 – 1923 • 1,500,000 men, women and children murdered • 500,000 survivors expelled form their homes

17. Soviet Union (Famine) • Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite • 1932 – 1933 • Man made famine – Soviet troops seized all of the crops

18. Cambodia • Educated, artists, technicians, formers government officials, monks, and minorities. • 1975- 1979 • 1,700,000 murdered – this includes those who died by slave labor

19. Rwanda • Tutsi and Hutus • 1994 • Lasted only 100 days • 937,000 murdered – largest amounts of people to die in genocide per day

20. Yugoslavia • Bosnian Muslims and Croats • 1992 – 1995 • Srebrenica Massacre – 8,000 murdered

21. Darfur • 80 black African groups (including – Fur, Zaghawa and Massalit) • 2,000,000 murdered (Est.) • 4,000,000 displaced • Currently ongoing • Conflict began in February 2003 • Stems from the 1980’s • confirmed 200,000 killed – this is a conservative estimate