What does the word Holocaust mean?Legislation and Deportation The Pyramid of Hate Holocaust Art The Final Solution – Documentary and handout.

Genocide – 6 million Jewish civilians were executed systematically.Slavery – entire populations are enslaved in order to serve the Nazi war effort.Nazism – Also, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives of POWs, homosexuals, physically/mentally disabled, political oppositions.

from the Greek meaning “a burnt offering to the gods”, or sacrifice by fire.

Stage 4: Execution and extermination off all Jews and the Mass Murder of None-Arians

Stage 3: The Concentration of the Jews

Stage 2: Nazi control of the Legal System

Stage 1: A large foundation of Anti-Semitism

Stage One and Two– A large foundation of Anti-Semitism and the Nazi control of the legal system

1933January – Hitler takes powerMarch – Dachau concentration camp is openedApril – Boycott of Jewish Shops Jews lose legal, civil and economic rights Jews are dismissed from universities, the press etc. Jewish books are burned German Jews are forced to wear the Yellow Star of David

1935The Nuremberg Laws: Jews become non-people because they are made up of “impure blood”.

Biased based ands stories meant to convince people to believe an idea.

The Concentration of the Jews:1938 – The Night of Broken Glass -20,000 Jews were arrested and

sent to concentration camps. -91 were killed and 7,000 shops

were looted. -The Jews were fined 1billion

marks.

Laws passed between 1933 and 1935 aimed to reduce the future number of genetic “inferiors” through involuntary sterilization programs (about 500 children of mixed African/German) racial backgrounds and 320,000 to 350,000 individuals judged physically or mentally handicapped were subjected to surgical or radiation procedures so that they could not have children.

Between 1933 and 1938, thousands of people were imprisoned in concentration camps. The systematic round-ups of German-Austrian Jews occurred after the night of broken glass.

Jews were placed in Ghettos (slum areas of the city that were surrounded by barbed wire and walls).The Ghettos were dirty and overcrowded and food was limited by the Nazis.If a Jew was caught outside the walls they could be killed.Jews not placed in ghettos they were sent to concentration camps. 1941: Jews are moved to concentration camps like Dachau, Auschwitz.

Jews were sealed in camps where starvation, overcrowding, exposure to cold, disease were common.

The execution and extermination of all Jews (6,000,000)

Between 1942 and 1944, the Germans moved to eliminate the ghettos in occupied Poland and elsewhere, deporting ghetto residents to “extermination camps”, killing centre's equipped with gassing facilities located in Poland.

After the meeting of senior German government officials in late January 1942 the decision to implement “the final solution of the Jewish question” became formal state policy.

Please view the following documentary: The Hoffman Collection – How Hitler Lost the War- “The Final Solution”.

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