Why did Hitler carry through with it ? How did it fit with his visions?

1. Holocaust Review • Why did Hitler carry through with it? How did it fit with his visions?

2. 2. What were the first 3 tactics? • Tactic 1 = 1935  • Tactic 2 = 1938  • Concentration camps being built & boycotting is occurring in 1930s 3. What was the desired outcome

3. WWII & the Holocaust • 3rd and Final Tactic was… • “Final Solution” • To the “Jewish Question” • Genocide

4. a. Wansee Conference • January 1942 • where Hitler’s “Final Solution” was presented

5. Final Solution • Final Solution = annihilation of Jewish people • Genocide • ReinhardHeydrich, Heinrich Himmler  and the SS would run it

6. b. Genocide • The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.

7. c. Where didHitler get hisInspiration? • “After all, who remembers the Armenians?”

8. d. "The Jewish Question" • What is the question? • Jews have a history of being a “question” in Europe…when????? • 1939 = Germans realize during WW2 that they have a new Jewish Question = • how to get rid of Jews from the beginning of Hitler’s 1000 Year Reich? • Previous actions have caused emigration…not enough

9. Ukraine 1942 • Einsatzgruppen (part of the SS) in charge of Final Solution

10. 5. Blueprint of the Holocaust • Jews from countries occupied by Germany would be captured • Three possible steps/stages you could go through during the Final Solution • Stage 1 = Ghetto  • Temporary Jewish quarters in cities

12. Stage 2 & 3 • Move out of ghettos and sent to either… • Concentration Camps  • Stage 2 • Death Camps • Stage 3

13. Useyourmap

14. Concentration Camp Work camp Jews produced goods for German Empire Plan for Jews here? Schindler’s List Extermination Camp Purpose more for mass murder 6 major ones in Eastern Europe Auschwitz in Schindler’s List Concentration Extermination

15. Auschwitz • 2000 people killed every 30 minutes

16. Sub-Camp

17. SelectionProcess

18. Not just Jews who were exterminated, but non-Aryans • Jews = about 6 million • Russians = about 3 million • Polish = 1 million • Gypsies = 350K…considered inferior race • Disabled = 250K • Jehovah’s Witnesses…refused to join army or salute Hitler • Homosexuals • Freemasons…supported Jewish conspiracy to rule the world #’s

19. Final Solution's peak • The mass murder is at its worst around 1942 (?) and continues until end of the war

20. d. German Reaction • Some resisted… • Some helped Nazis as collaborators • Some just ignored it… pretended it was not there •  by 1945

21. e. Western Democracies? • From March 1944 to the end of the war, the USA had capability to bomb Auschwitz, but didn’t

23. Have we learned from the Holocaust? • Cambodia 1970s • Guatemala 1980s • Rwanda 1994 • Bosnia 1990s • Darfur 2000s • When will it end?

24. Schindler’s List

25. Oskar Schindler

26. AmonGoeth