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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. The “Final Solution”. Hitler’s plan for the Jews was NOT set from the beginning It EVOLVED over time. 4 Stages of the Holocaust. Identification Expropriation Concentration Extermination. Identification. First step seems harmless Identifies the “enemy”.

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust

  2. The “Final Solution” • Hitler’s plan for the Jews was NOT set from the beginning • It EVOLVED over time

  3. 4 Stages of the Holocaust • Identification • Expropriation • Concentration • Extermination

  4. Identification • First step seems harmless • Identifies the “enemy”

  5. Nuremberg Laws 1935 • Reich Citizenship Law - Jews are no longer citizens • The Nuremberg Law for the Protection of Blood and German Honor - no marriage between German and Jew - No Jew can employ in their household a German woman under the age of 45 - Jews cannot fly the German Flag

  6. WHO? • Jews- 6 million died • 5 million others died - Mentally and Physically Handicapped - Gypsies (Roma) - Russians - Poles - Slavs - Homosexuals - Jehovah Witnesses - Political enemies

  7. Expropriation • Taking the Jewish Wealth • Jews lost their jobs • Businesses were taken from them • Special taxes were placed on them

  8. Kristallnacht • Nov. 9-11 1938: The Night of Broken Glass • Germans destroy Jewish - synagogues - businesses - cemeteries • Thousands sent to Dachau • Turning Point

  9. Austria 1938

  10. Concentration • Ghettos established in E. Europe to isolate the Jews • After war began • Located near rail lines • Walled in and entrances guarded • Death rate skyrockets from starvation and disease

  11. The gate of Dachau concentration camp in Germany. “Work will set you free”

  12. Einzatsgruppen • Mobile killing units • Follows invasion of Russia in 1941 • Shot Jews and disposed of bodies in mass graves • Process ends due to - effect on German soldiers - not efficient enough

  13. Single largest massacre occurred in BabiYar just outside of Kiev 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children are killed

  14. Extermination • Wannsee Conference • Transported to camps • Gassed and bodies cremated

  15. Where?

  16. Chelmno was the first death camp. Prisoners died in Gas vans

  17. The other Death camps were: Treblinka Sobibor Belzec Majdonek Auschwitz/Birkenau Gates of Auschwitz

  18. If chosen to Die

  19. The Germans told the prisoners they were being sent to the showers but they were actually gas chambers

  20. Inside a gas chamber in the Majdonek Death Camp

  21. The Gas was put in through this hole in the ceiling

  22. The canisters of Poisonous Gas known as Zyclon B

  23. Bodies were taken to the crematorium and burned

  24. The crematorium in Majdonek

  25. Part of the Monument at Majdonek where the human ashes are kept

  26. Hill of Ashes – First Memorial

  27. At Auschwitz-Birkenau the Germans destroyed the 4 Gas chambers before they escaped

  28. These gas chambers were the largest ever built by the Germans. They were a combination dressing room, gas chamber, and crematorium.

  29. If chosen to Live

  30. People who were kept alive to work were tattooed with a number

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