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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. Setting the Stage. Nazis proclaimed that Aryans, Or Germanic peoples, were a “master race.” Jews and other Non-Aryan people were Inferior. This racist message would Eventually lead to the Holocaust – The mass slaughter of civilians, especially Jews. Pair Share.

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust

  2. Setting the Stage • Nazis proclaimed that Aryans, • Or Germanic peoples, were a • “master race.” Jews and other • Non-Aryan people were • Inferior.

  3. This racist message would • Eventually lead to the Holocaust – • The mass slaughter of civilians, • especially Jews.

  4. Pair Share Discuss the reasons behind the Holocaust.

  5. Hatred for Jews had deep roots in • European history • For generations, many Germans, • Along with other Europeans, had • Targeted Jews as the cause of • Their failures.

  6. The Nazis even blamed the Jews, • For Germany’s defeat in WW I and • For its economic problems. • Nazi propaganda played into this

  7. German soldier brutalizing a Polish Jew

  8. 1935- The Nuremburg Laws • deprived Jews of their rights to • citizenship, jobs, and property • To make it easier to identify them, • Jews had to wear a bright yellow • star attached to their clothing

  9. Pair Share What were the Nuremburg Laws?

  10. 1935- 2 Jewish children are humiliated by their classmates On the Chalkboard “The Jew is our Greatest enemy! Beware of the Jew!”

  11. Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass” • November 1938, Nazis attacked • Jewish homes, businesses, and • synagogues across Germany. • The main streets of Germany were • Covered with shattered glass

  12. Jewish Synagogue on fire Nov. 10, 1938

  13. After Kristallnacht, some Jews • realized that violence against • them was bound to increase • Jews began leaving Germany for • other countries.

  14. France – 25,000 Britain- 80,000 Latin America- 40,000 United States- 100,000 (including Albert Einstein)

  15. Pair Share Explain the significance of Kistallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass.

  16. Isolating the Jews • Hitler knew that he could not get • Rid of all Jews through emigration. • So he had all Jews move into • ghettos- segregated Jewish areas

  17. The ghettos were sealed off with • Barbed wire or stone walls • They wanted the Jews inside to • starve to death or die from disease

  18. Hitler’s Final Solution • Hitler grew impatient waiting for • The Jews to die in the ghettos. • He decided to take a more direct • Action. His plan was called the • “Final solution.”

  19. Inferior groups were- gypsies, • Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the • insane, disabled, and the ill. • But the Nazis focused on the Jews

  20. As the Nazis defeated its enemies, • Hitler’s SS unit was sent to towns • To round up Jews and kill them. • Those who were not killed were • Sent to slave-labor camps.

  21. It was a program of genocide- the • systematic killing of people • To protect racial purity, the Nazis • Not only had to eliminate the Jews, • But all other races they viewed as • inferior

  22. Mass execution of Jews from the Soviet Union

  23. Final Stage: Mass Extermination By 1942, the Nazis built Extermination camps for the Purpose of mass murder.

  24. Pair Share What is Hitler’s Final Solution? What were the steps taken to accomplish it?

  25. Arriving at Auschwitz

  26. Pair Share What was Auschwitz and why was the most infamous of the concentration camps?

  27. A sole survivor among The corpses in a freight Car being transported To the camps

  28. A few hundred pounds of gold teeth

  29. A shrunken head of a prisoner To terrorize other prisoners, Nazis would hang shrunken Heads in the middle of the camps

  30. Medical Experiments

  31. High-Altitude medical experiments in Dachau. In order to test how pilots who have to eject from their planes will fare, SS doctors simulated high-altitude conditions in a chamber, and exposed people to these conditions. Many prisoners died during such experiments. In order for the simulation to be as real as possible, the prisoner is hung by parachute straps.

  32. A prisoner is submerged in a tank filled with cold water. The goal of this type of experiments was to check how long German pilots, who had to parachute into the cold north sea, would survive.

  33. Open air cremation pits used to burn bodies

  34. A pile of victim’s shoes

  35. Jews Killed Under Nazi Rule

  36. 5 million non-Jews were also killed as a result of Hitler • 3 million Polish Catholics and Christians • The rest (est. 2 million) were non-Jew citizens of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France and even Germany.

  37. The Nuremberg Trials • Nuremberg was chosen because it had been the scene of large rallies glorifying Nazism. • At Nuremberg 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death, 3 to life, 4 to lesser terms. • People who contributed to the death machinery were not punished.

  38. Pair Share What are your feelings about the Holocaust? How has it changed the world that we live in?

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