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The Holocaust (1933-45)

The Holocaust (1933-45). The systematic murder of over 6,000,000 Jewish victims in Europe before and during World War II. From the Greek word which means “to be consumed by fire.”. Nazi Anti-Jewish laws.

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The Holocaust (1933-45)

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  1. The Holocaust (1933-45) The systematic murder of over 6,000,000 Jewish victims in Europe before and during World War II. From the Greek word which means “to be consumed by fire.”

  2. Nazi Anti-Jewish laws • April 7, 1933 Law for the Reestablishment of the Civil Service: expelled any non-Aryan from government work • April 12, 1933 Law Concerning Admission to the Legal Profession-prohibited Jews from being lawyers • April 22, 1933 Decree Regarding Physicians’ Services. Patients who saw Jewish doctors were not allowed to have expenses reimbursed. • April 25, 1933 Law Against the Overcrowding of German Schools Jewish enrollment in German high schools was restricted to 1.5% of the student body • Nuremberg Laws, 1935 -Stripped Jews of their civil rights and property if they tried to leave Germany. Jews over the age of six had to wear a bright yellow Star of David on their clothing

  3. Night and Fog DecreeNacht und NebelErlass • Issued on December 7, 1941 by Hitler • It provided for the seizure of “persons endangering Germany’s security. • These individuals were not to be executed immediately, but were to vanish without a trace into the “night and fog”(Germany’s concentration and death camp system0

  4. genocide • Use of a deliberate, systematic policy designed to eliminate an entire racial, political, or cultural group or a nation of people. (From geno= race, kind –cide = killing) • The “Final Solution” The term refers to the Germans’ plans to physically liquidate all the Jews in Europe.

  5. Sites of the Holocaust

  6. Concentration Camps

  7. Six Death Camps • Extermination camps were concentration camps with special apparatus specifically designed for mass murder. Six camps existed, all of them in Poland.

  8. Terms to Know • SS (Schutzstaffel)—Hitler’s elite guard. Originally the black-shirted personal guards of Hitler; later transformed into a mass army that served as a political police force. They administered the camps. • Zyklon B (Hydrocyanic or prussic acid)– Poison gas used in the gas chambers • Kapo – Group (section) leader in concentration camp. Usually a non-German political or criminal prisoner. Many were as brutal as the SS guards. • ArbeitMachtFrei(Work makes one free)- Sign on the camp gates of various concentration camps and killing centers.

  9. Auschwitz

  10. Numbers of Victims

  11. BeforeandAfter

  12. Other Victims • Gypsies • Serbs • Polish • Resistance fighters from all nations • German opponents of Nazism • Homosexuals • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Habitual criminals • Beggars, vagrants and hawkers

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