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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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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
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
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
Establishing the Social Structure for Genocide –
Cont.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Systematic Genocide (Video Clip)
Visiting Poland 2005As many Israeli high school students, I too visited Poland, in
which most of the extermination took place.
My Pictures from Auschwitz
Pictures from Majdaneck
Human Ash Pile at Majdaneck Extermination Camp
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
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.
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