Review Questions◦What was decided at the Yalta Conference?

◦ British, French, Soviets would control Germany, Soviets could control Eastern Europe

◦What is the United Nations?◦ Replaced League of Nations, meant to prevent world conflict

◦What was the Balfour Declaration?◦ Idea of creating a new homeland for Jews after WWII with the establishment of Israel

◦What were the Nuremburg Trials? ◦ Nazi leaders punished for crimes against humanity

Coming soon…◦ Extended Bellringer

Agenda◦ Extended Bellringer

◦Notes: The Holocaust

◦ Exit Ticket

Outline this following essay…

◦Pick TWO topics from the suggested list

◦For each one: ◦Historical circumstance (what happened before)◦Analysis (compare to something else or what happened after)

Objectives◦ Students will demonstrate an understanding of how and why certain minority and

ethnic groups were persecuted under Hitler by completing an exit ticket activity

THE HOLOCAUSTWWII

Background

◦Hitler began aggressive military behavior because he wanted “lebensraum” (Living Space)

◦Wanted to destroy anyone he viewed as inferior

◦Genocide: killing of an entire ethnic or religious group

The beginning…◦Nuremburg laws (1935) defined “Jewish” on paper and declared

them “subhuman”◦Cannot teach, couldn’t marry non-jews, no government jobs, no publishing

books

◦Kristallnacht: “Night of Broken Glass” – November 8, 1938◦After Nuremburg laws, discrimination/hate crimes against Jews was unpunished

and even glorified◦ This culture of hate finally exploded with Kristallnacht – full scale destruction◦German officials told media a Polish Jew had assassinated a Germany

ambassador in Paris to inspire the destruction ◦All Jewish businesses, synagogues, cemeteries, schools, and homes destroyed

across Germany

Final Solution◦After Kristallnacht, Hitler required all Jews to live in Ghettos so they can be supervised

◦He limited food, supplies, money in hopes they would die off

◦While they suffered in ghettos, he set up concentration camps (labor camps) to he could kill them on a large scale

◦While millions died in these death camps, millions others died of starvation, disease, murder

◦German soldiers were allowed to kill any Jew they wanted, in any way they wanted, for any reason they wanted

◦6 million Jews murdered (estimated)

Nazi Medical Experiments◦Dropping Jews w/ parachutes from different altitudes to see what was too

high

◦Forced to drink various forms of salt water

◦Exposure to mustard gas to see if a tolerance could be developed

◦Bone grafting to test pharmaceuticals

◦Exposing different groups to various diseases to see how different races could withstand them (Josef Mengele at Auschwitz – proving Aryan superiority w scientific method)

◦Sterilization experiments to eliminate potential reproduction of undesirables

◦Twins – eye dye and sewed together – 1400 used, 200 survived

◦Head injury – chair hammer

Sad truth

◦Despite the despicable nature of these experiments, the data gleaned has been used to improve standards of living and life expectancy around the world…

Exit ticket

◦What is genocide? ◦Mass execution of a specific minority group

◦What was Kristallnacht?◦Night of broken glass – prejudice against Jews came to a boiling point

Textbook reading

◦Read pages 967-970

◦Answer questions 4,5, 6, and 7 on page 970