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The Dangers of Racism – The Holocaust This presentation is about the dangers of racism and its affects regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany in World War II. This presentation contains images that can be hard to watch. Be advised. This is a very personal and sensitive subject. If you feel that this subject is something to laugh about, a conspiracy, untruthful or just have no real interest in seeing it –

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Page 1: The Dangers of Racism – The Holocaust

The Dangers of Racism – The Holocaust

This presentation is about the dangers of racism and its affects regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany in

World War II.

This presentation contains images that can be hard to watch. Be

advised.

This is a very personal and sensitive subject. If you feel that this subject is something to laugh about, a conspiracy, untruthful or

just have no real interest in seeing it –

PLEASE LEAVE !!

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Background FactsWorld War II Facts:• Timeline: 1939 – 1945• Total WWII Casualties: 60 Million• Military Casualties: 40 Million• Civilian Casualties: 20 Million

Holocaust Facts:Murdered by the Nazis:• Jews: 6,000,000 (Incl. 1.5M Children)• Poles: 2,000,000• Disabled: 250,000• Homosexuals: 15,000•Jehovah’s Witnesses: 5,000

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Racial TheoryRacial Pyramid & Place in Society:

Master Race, needs to be

purified and to expand.

Under Races, the masses should be

used as slave labor to benefit the Master

Race. The unfit– to be exterminated.

Sub-Humans. To be

exterminated.

Aryan-Nordic

Slavs, Romani & Blacks

Jews &Gypsies

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Establishing the Social Structure for Genocide

Propaganda - The Use of The Media:

Jews as rats to be exterminated

Jews controlling the allies behind

the scenes

Money as the Jewish god

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Establishing the Social Structure for Genocide –

Cont.

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Racism into Law - Nuremberg Laws of 1935

An authentic document of the Nuremberg Laws, determining who is a Jew and establishing what kind of marriages are allowed to a “partial” Jew.

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The Process of Genocide

Declining Rights Ghettos Concentrati

on CampsSystematic Genocide

Nuremburg

Laws – 1935

KristallNacht - 1938

Concentration of the

Jews upon occupation

of a territory –

1939 - 1945

A brief stop between

the ghettoes and the

extermination camps – 1940 - 1945

Extermination Camps. Mainly in occupied Poland.

1941 - 1945

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Ghettoes & Concentration Camps

Ghettoes and Concentration Camps were established in order to remove the Jews from the public, in order to stop them from

contaminating the Aryan race.

Warsaw Ghetto

“Bunk Beds” in

Theresienstadt

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Systematic Genocide (1940-1941)

The First Step – Einsatzgruppen (SS Death Squads)Murder by firing squads, was used mostly in occupied Soviet Union territories from 1940 to 1941.

A German Einsatzgruppe soldier preparing to shoot a Jew.

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Systematic Genocide (1941-1945)

The Second Step – Mass Annihilation in Extermination CampsIn 1942 in Wannsee, Germany top Nazi officials decided on “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. This was the application of Gas Chambers and Crematoriums to mass murder the Jewish population in the occupied territories.

Auschwitz-Birkenau’s entrance – the largest death camp

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Systematic Genocide (Video Clip)

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Visiting Poland 2005As many Israeli high school students, I too visited Poland, in

which most of the extermination took place.

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My Pictures from Auschwitz

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Pictures from Majdaneck

Human Ash Pile at Majdaneck Extermination Camp

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The AftermathCountry Estimated Pre-War Jewish

populationEstimated Jewish

population annihilated Percent murdered

Poland 3,300,000 3,000,000 90Baltic countries 253,000 228,000 90

Germany & Austria 240,000 210,000 90Bohemia & Moravia 90,000 80,000 89

Slovakia 90,000 75,000 83Greece 70,000 54,000 77

Netherlands 140,000 105,000 75Hungary 650,000 450,000 70

Byelorussian SSR 375,000 245,000 65Ukrainian SSR 1,500,000 900,000 60

Belgium 65,000 40,000 60Yugoslavia 43,000 26,000 60Romania 600,000 300,000 50Norway 2,173 890 41France 350,000 90,000 26

Bulgaria 64,000 14,000 22Italy 40,000 8,000 20

Luxembourg 5,000 1,000 20Russian SFSR 975,000 107,000 11

Denmark 8,000 52 <1Finland 2,000 22 1

Total 8,861,800 5,933,900 67

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Last NotesRecommended Media:If you have any interest in the subject, you will find the following movies interesting:• Hitler and the Rise of Evil (2003) – Background on the rise of the Nazis to power.• Schindler’s List (1993) – A true story about Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party who saved a few hundred Jews.• Escape from Sobibor (1987) – A true story about an uprising and escape from Sobibor extermination camp.• Defiance (2008) – A true story about Jewish resistance in eastern Europe.• The Wave (1980) – A short video explaining the ease of submission into authoritan culture.

Thank you for you time and listening.