1933- 1945

1. The Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire; any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life

2. Nationalistic fervor Racism Centuries-old bigotry World War I Antisemitism 1933-1945 Treaty of Versailles Weimar Republic International Indifference Propaganda The Depression Political charisma of Adolf Hitler

6. “”First set fire to their synagogues or schools…Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed…instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies…Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them….Fourth I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb…Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews…let them stay at home.”Martin Luther, On Jews and Their Lies, 1543

7. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

8. Henry Ford

9. Alfred Sloan & G.M. Motors

11. 1933-1945 Beer Hall PutschNov. 9, 1923

14. Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF • “Mein Kampf” means “My Struggle”; Hitler wrote it while in prison in the 1920’s • Still banned in most European countries • Given to every newly married German couple from the late 1930’s onward

15. 1933-1945 1933-1945

16. 1933-1945 1933Hitler becomes Chancellor

18. 1933-1945 March 22, 1933Dachau Concentration Camp built

20. 1933-1945 May 10, 1933Book Burnings

23. 1933-1945 Night of the Long KnivesJune 30, 1934

24. "If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people." "It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

25. 1933-1945 Sept. 10, 1935Nuremberg Laws

29. 1933-1945 August 1-16, 1936Summer Olympics in Berlin

31. 1933-1945 October 1938Deportations Begin

33. 1933-1945 November 7, 1938Assassination of Ernst Vom Rath

34. 'Being a Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I have a right to live and the Jewish people have a right to exist on this earth. Wherever I have been I have been chased like an animal.'9 --Herchel Grynszpan

35. 1933-1945 November 9, 1938Kristallnacht

40. 1933-1945 May 1939S.S. St. Louis

43. 1933-1945 Sept. 1, 1939WWII Begins: Germany attacks Poland

45. 1933-1945 October 1939Euthanasia Program targets the handicapped

46. Adolf Hitler's authorization for the Euthanasia Program (Operation T4), signed in October 1939 but dated September 1, 1939.__________National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

47. Buses used to transport patients to Hadamar euthanasia center. The windows were painted to prevent people from seeing those inside. Germany, between May and September 1941.__________Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden

49. 1933-1945 Summer 1941Killing Squads“Einsatzgruppen”