The Holocaust

1. The Holocaust

2. Anti-Semitism • Hostility towards or prejudice against Jews or Judaism

3. Examples of Propaganda Posters

4. Anti-Semitism in Germany • Hitler blamed Jews for German losses after WWI and the economic depression that spread thereafter

5. “The Jewish Question” • NAZIS, led by Hitler, believed that something needed to be done to remove Jews from German lands

6. Dachau • The first concentration camp was opened in Germany in 1933

9. Kristallnacht – Nov 9th, 1938 • “Night of Broken Glass” • Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German towns and cities

10. Anti-Semitism in Canada • after Kristallnacht, many Jews tried to leave Germany. • The ocean liner “St. Louis” took refugees to Cuba, where they would await to enter the US • Criminal backgrounds for the passengers were made up by NAZI propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels

11. Cuba refused to let the ship “land”, so it headed to Florida where it found no success • It then arrived off our east coast, carrying 907 Jewish people, including 400 women & children • Canada decided they would not make good settlers and forced them to return to Europe, where many died in concentration camps

12. By 1939, six large concentration camps existed in Poland

13. By 1941, they started operating as “death camps”

14. 1942 – “Wannsee Conference” “The Final Solution”

15. T-4 Euthanasia Program

17. Zyklon-B Gas Chambers Auschwitz

19. Trains transported Jews to camps

25. Identifying the prisoners • Green = professional criminal • Pink = homosexual • Brown = gypsy • Violet = Jehovah’s Witness • Black = “a-social” (alcoholic or prostitute)

26. Identifying the prisoners • Jews were given 2 black and yellow triangles • Together they formed the 6-pointed Star of David

27. NAZI leaders Adolf Hitler

28. NAZI leaders Joseph Goebbels

29. NAZI leaders Hermann Goring

30. NAZI leaders Heinrich Himmler

31. NAZI leaders Rudolf Hoss

32. NAZI leaders Joseph Mengeles

33. Liberation - 1945

35. Nuremburg Trials – 1945 - 49