• Genocide - a systematic killing of a specific group
• Holocaust – Genocide of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, homosexuals, and the disabled in Nazi occupied territories.
Anti -SemitismAnti -Semitism
‘Hatred of Jews’.
Aryan RaceAryan Race
This was the name of what Hitler believed was the
“Master-race.”
Nuremberg Laws:•Star of David•No intermarriage•Removed from positions
Book Burning – anything unGerman or JewishJewish professors were fired from their jobs at the universities.
• Boycott of Jewish Businesses
Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass – targeted
Jewish businesses.
St Louis – filled with Jewish passengers were denied entrance into USA and Cuba.
Ghettos were set up in Nazi-occupied Europe by Nazi Germany in order to confine and segregate Jews
Warsaw Ghetto UprisingLargest Ghetto where the jewish occupants revolted.56,065, Jews were caught or killed.
Initially, a special task force was established within the SS (Einsatsgruppen) that was responsible for carrying out mass execution of Jews.
33,771 persons shot by the SS during the mass executions at Babi Yar. These are the clothes that were left behind
Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp.
Jews were gassed in mobile gas vans. Carbon monoxide gas from the engine’s exhaust was fed into the sealed rear compartment.
Concentration Camps• Concentration camps
were turned into extermination camps. Jews were transported to these camps from all over German occupied territories. Once the Jews arrived they killed by poison gas or lethal injections.
• It was the most effective and efficient way to kill a large number of people.
“Mercy killing” – young, Elderly, and the disabled who could not work were killed immediately.
crematorium
Hitler’s Final Solution – kill all the Jews
Poland and other Eastern European Countries
Jews were forced to give up their gold and silver to the SS.
Nuremberg Trials
• Nuremberg Trials– War trials of high
ranking Nazis– Crimes against
Humanity• Genocide—
Systematic killing of an entire group of people
