January 14, 2014

1. Notes: The Holocaust2. Video Clip: Band of Brothers :

Liberation of Concentration Camp3. Return Work

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Unit VWorld War

II24.3: The Holocaust

The Holocaust Nazis targeted Jews and other “undesirables.”

Anti-Semitism. Killed over 6 million

Jews & 5 million other: “Undesirables”

Gypsies Opponents of Nazism

or Political prisoners Homosexuals “Anti-social”-

beggars, handicapped, criminals

Christians.

The Holocaust

Sept. 1935: Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws.

1. Stripped Jews of citizenship.

2. Banned marriage between Jews & non-Jews.

3. Boycott Jewish businesses.

4. Banned from civil service & government jobs, practicing law, medicine, etc.

Kristallnacht

Nov.7, 1938 young German Jew shot and killed German diplomat in Paris.

November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass.”

German head of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, led Secret Police (Gestapo: led by Herman Goering)) and civilians in killing over 90 Jews, injured over 600, destroyed 7,500 Jewish businesses & 200 synagogues.

The Holocaust

Jews tried to flee. 350,000 escaped Nazi

territories from 1933 until the start of WWII in 1939.

Immigration quotas limited Jewish immigration into the U.S.

The Final Solution

1939-1942: People placed in ghettos for confinement across Germany, Poland, and other parts of Nazi occupied Eastern Europe.

January, 1942: Wannsee Conference- 15 Nazi leaders meet and decide “Final Solution.”

Final Solution: Extermination (genocide) of all Jews and other undesirables.

Sent to concentration camps. Some became extermination camps (i.e. Auschwitz in

Poland) where prisoners were systematically executed.

The Final Solution

Auschwitz housed 100,000 people in 300 barracks with gas chambers that could kill 2,000 at a time.

1.6 million people died at Auschwitz.

Liberation

STATISTICS BY COUNTRY

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500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

POLAND USSR HUNGARY GERMANY

BEFOREAFTER

Jewish population before, Jewish population after Holocaust