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WWII and the Holocaust

WWII and the Holocaust. Please click the mouse button to advance to the next slide. Adolf Hitler. - Born: April 20 th , 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn,Austria

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WWII and the Holocaust

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  1. WWII and the Holocaust Please click the mouse button to advance to the next slide.

  2. Adolf Hitler - Born: April 20th, 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn,Austria - Failed to finish school and instead aspired to become an artist; later Hitler would unsuccessfully apply to the Vienna School of Arts. He acquired a keen interest in politics. - Volunteered on the side of Germany in the first World war. He fought bravely and was quickly promoted to corporal. On the day of the announcement of surrender. Hitler was in the hospital due to temporary blindness from British gas, and he also suffered a bullet wound to the leg. - On November 8th 1923 Hitler led an attempt to take over the local Bavarian Government. - As a result he was arrested on counts of treason and was sentenced to 5 years in prison; where he would dictate his words into writing in his infamous “Mein Kampf” or “My Struggle”.

  3. Hitler Continued... • Hitler was released after serving only 6 months of his prison term, he then set out to rebuild the Nazi Party • January 30th, 1933 President Hindenburg decided to appoint Hitler Chancellor in a coalition government with Papen as Vice-Chancellor.

  4. The Holocaust • Term generally used to describe the killing of approximately Six Million European Jews during WWII, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the Nazi regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler. • Lasted from early 1930’s until the end of the war. • Jews were held in ghettos, which were breeding grounds for disease and sickness, before being shipped to Work camps or Concentration (death) camps; to be exterminated.

  5. Nazi Concentration Camps

  6. Auschwitz - Largest of the Nazi Concentration camps. Located in southern Poland. - The camp complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp; and Auschwitz III (Monowitz), a work camp. - It is recorded that between 3 and 4 million Jews were executed at this death camp alone. - Methods of killing people at Auschwitz included, primarily, gassing with Zykon-B; systematic starvation, lack of disease prevention, individual executions and so-called medical experiments accounted for the rest. - The gas chambers of Birkenau were blown up by the SS in November 1944 in an attempt to hide their crimes from the advancing Soviet troops. On January, 17th 1945 Nazi personnel started to evacuate the facility; most of the prisoners were forced on a death march West. Those too weak or sick to walk were left behind; about 7,500 prisoners were liberated by the 322nd Infantry unit of the Red Army on January 27th, 1945.

  7. Elie Wiesel ... During War • April 14, 1944; Elie Wiesel and his family are deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau • Survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz. • “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never”.

  8. Elie Wiesel ... Post war • Author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. • Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind”. • - In October 2006, his name was touted as a possible successor to Israeli President Moshe Katsav, and also received an honorary “Knighthood” in London.

  9. WW II Losses in EuropeEach symbol indicates 100,000 dead Jewish population Auschwitz Civilian population (non-Jewish) By disease Military casualties of various countries Krystyna Gorzelska. “WWII Losses in Europe.” University of Mary. Date accessed: 3-14-2007

  10. Casualties of WWII

  11. “I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead, and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” Elie Wiesel

  12. Hallowed Ground

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