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The Holocaust Ms. Ha Ch. 16 Sec. 3

The Holocaust Ms. Ha Ch. 16 Sec. 3. I. Holocaust. A. Systematic murder of 11 million people 1.Estimate 6-7 million Jews 2.Estimate 4+ million other. 3. Methods: a. Mass slaughter (shooting) b. Starvation c. Poison Gas (1942). 4. Anti-Semitism

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The Holocaust Ms. Ha Ch. 16 Sec. 3

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  1. The HolocaustMs. HaCh. 16 Sec. 3

  2. I. Holocaust • A. Systematic murder of 11 million people 1.Estimate 6-7 million Jews 2.Estimate 4+ million other

  3. 3. Methods: a. Mass slaughter (shooting) b. Starvation c. Poison Gas (1942)

  4. 4. Anti-Semitism a. Hatred of Jews b. Scapegoats for German economic problems c. Hitler didn’t like the “look” of them

  5. II. Kristallnacht: Nov. 9-10, 1938 • A. “Night of Broken Glass” 1. Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses & synagogues across Germany

  6. 2. About 100 killed, & injuries 3. 30,000 arrested 4. Nazis blamed the Jews

  7. B. Nazis were pushing for the Jews to leave Germany. 1. The Jews couldn’t leave fast enough 2. Countries limited numbers

  8. III. Hitler’s “Final Solution” • A. Goal: rid Europe of Jews 1. Policy of genocide a. Deliberate and systematic killing of entire population

  9. B. Hitler felt Aryans were “master race” 1. Must be preserved 2. Kill “inferiors”

  10. C. “Inferiors” 1. Political threats 2. Elderly/Crippled/Sick 3. Homosexuals 4. Gypsies 5. Jehovah’s Witnesses

  11. D. Started exterminations in Poland 1. Nazi SS a. “Security squadrons” b. Death squads c. Shot on spot d. Included kids/infants

  12. E. Forced Relocation 1. Ghettos: segregated Jewish areas in Polish cities 2. Sealed off: barbed wire 3. Factories: forced into labor 4. Rebelled: secret newspapers & schooling

  13. IV. Concentration Camps • A. Labor camps 1. Families separated 2. Rare: to see again

  14. B. Life in these camps: 1. Hunger 2. Humiliation 3. Work 4. Horror 5. Death

  15. C. Stripped of: 1. Wedding bands 2. Gold fillings 3. Shaved hair 4. Hitler: break their spirit

  16. Warehouse of personal items • 5. Tons(7): shaved hair from victims • 6. Used to make cloth

  17. D. Living quarters • 1. Wooden barracks a) Rats & Fleas b) Starved 2. Work dawn to dusk 3. Worked seven days a week 4. Killed when too ill to work

  18. LIVING QUARTERS

  19. V. THE FINAL STAGE • A. Mass exterminations 1. Hitler felt methods were slow 2. 1942: added poison gas 3. Death camps (6) built in Poland a. 12,000 killed per day

  20. B. Auschwitz • 1. Largest of the death camps

  21. 2. SS doctors decided who lived & died • 3. Mothers sometimes were told to pick which of their children survived/died.

  22. Doctors Choosing: Life or Death

  23. 4. Unloaded from trains, doctors said go left or right after inspection. 5. One side: went to gas chambers 6. Other side: death postponed

  24. Selected for Gas Chamber

  25. Inside Gas Chamber

  26. Death Trench

  27. Crematoriums: hide evidence

  28. 7. Other forms used: a. Shot/hanged/lethal injection b. Worst: doctor experimentation 1) Children 2) Men 3) Women c) Deadly germ experiments

  29. VI. Survivors • A. Some were considered “lucky” 1. Forever changed 2. Strong spirit 3. Pick up pieces 4. Live with the emotional scars

  30. Auschwitz Survivors

  31. Auschwitz Victims Anna Klein: Age 6 Jon Klein: Age 3

  32. "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains."  - Anne Frank

  33. Anne Frank… • Another victim of the Holocaust.

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