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Part 3 The Holocaust

World War II, 1930-1945. Part 3 The Holocaust. Anti-Semitism . Mein Kamph Nuremberg Laws Kristallnact Ghettos Concentration Camps Extermination Camps. Mein Kamph. In Mein Kamph , Hitler laid out his plans for Germany, and the New German Empire, he called the Third Riech

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Part 3 The Holocaust

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  1. World War II, 1930-1945 Part 3 The Holocaust

  2. Anti-Semitism • Mein Kamph • Nuremberg Laws • Kristallnact • Ghettos • Concentration Camps • Extermination Camps

  3. Mein Kamph • In Mein Kamph, Hitler laid out his plans for Germany, and the New German Empire, he called the Third Riech • Not only did he lay out this plan, but he also developed a scapegoat for all of Germany’s problems, the JEWS. • He also explained why and how the jews and other inferior peoples were holding Germany back.

  4. Nazi Anti-Semitism Hitler rose to power by using Jewish people as scapegoat • Longstanding tradition of blaming Jews • “Stab in the back” theory about Versailles Treaty • Pseudo-scientific view of genetics (Aryan super race) Nuremberg Laws (1930s) • Created a separate legal status for German Jews • Thousands of Jews left Germany during this time; others were trapped & could not emigrate

  5. Kristallnacht • The night of broken glass • Germans raided Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues and confiscated property and money from the Jewish people

  6. The Final Solution Genocidal plan to eliminate Jewish “menace” • Development of the “ghetto” (confined area of a city) by walling section of city in and preventing free travel to and from (Warsaw Ghetto in Poland was largest…400,000 Jews confined) • The Concentration Camp • Brutal conditions took grizzly toll due to starvation, disease, medical experimentation, forced labor • Transitioned too Death Camps later • Mobile “Killing Units” • Armed units of German soldiers who sought out and murdered thousands in mass executions; buried in mass graves (BabiYar, 35,000 Jewish men, women, & children killed in USSR, near Kiev-1941)

  7. Remembering BabiYar

  8. The Death Camps The mass extermination of the Jews was too costly, time-consuming, and was leaving behind too much evidence …clearly, a new system was necessary-the death camp • Camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, & Sobibor were built with gas shower rooms and crematorium ovens to eliminate the thousands of corpses Other minority groups targeted for extermination: • Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally handicapped, and Russians Results: around 6 million Jews & 5 million other minority groups eliminated

  9. The Death Camps

  10. The Death Camps

  11. One American G.I.’s Thoughts Upon Discovering the Camps Firsthand… I thought I had seen everything. I was a hardened soldier. I had been in combat since October 1944, and I had seen death and destruction that was unparalleled in modern times. But this --- there are no words to describe this.” Captain Reid Draffen U.S. Army

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