The Holocaust
Anti-Semitism
• Hostility towards or prejudice against Jews or Judaism
Anti-Semitism in Germany
• From the time he was a boy, Hitler blamed Jews for German losses after WWI and the economic depression that spread thereafter
“The Jewish Question”
• NAZIS, led by Hitler, believed that something needed to be done to remove Jews from German lands
Boycott of Jewish Stores
“Retirement”
• Government dismissed all workers NOT of Aryan descent
• Jewish teachers, lawyers, and performers were not allowed to work
• Jewish admissions to universities cancelled
Dachau
• The first concentration camp was opened in Germany in 1933
Book Burnings
Nuremburg LawsSection 1 Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred
blood are forbidden.
Section 2extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and subjects of the state of Germany or related blood is forbidden
Section 3 Jews will not be permitted to employ female citizens under
the age of 45, of German or kindred blood, as domestic workers.
Section 4Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the national colours On the other hand they are permitted to display the Jewish colours.
Krystallnacht – Nov 9th, 1938
• “Night of Broken Glass”
• Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German towns and cities
The Warsaw Ghetto - 1940
The “Judenrat”
By 1939, six large concentration camps existed in Poland
By 1941, they started operating as “death camps”
1942 – “Wannsee Conference”
“The Final Solution”
Einsatzgruppen
Adolf Eichmann
• Special force of the SS created to deal with the “undesirables” of occupied countries
• Eichmann headed a special section that dealt strictly with Jews
Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
T-4 Euthanasia Program
Zyklon-B Gas Chambers
Auschwitz
Trains transported Jews to camps
Identifying the prisoners
• Green = professional criminal
• Pink = homosexual
• Brown = gypsy
• Violet = Jehovah’s Witness
• Black = “a-social” (alcoholic or prostitute)
Identifying the prisoners
• Jews were given 2 black and yellow triangles• Together they formed the 6-pointed Star of
David
NAZI leaders
Adolf Hitler
NAZI leaders
Joseph Goebbels
NAZI leaders Hermann Goring
NAZI leaders
Heinrich Himmler
NAZI leaders
Rudolf Hoss
NAZI leaders
Joseph Mengele
Liberation - 1945
Nuremburg Trials – 1945 - 49
Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi as Dora
Giorgio Cantarini as Joshua
