THE HOLOCAUST

DEFINTIONS: HOLOCAUST A PROGRAM OF MASS MURDER

GENOCIDE THE ANNIHILATON OF ENTIRE RACE OF PEOPLE

HOLOCAUST STATISTICS

Conditions in Germany at the end of WWIGermany was a defeated nationPeace Treaty requirementsStock Market Crash

Nazis and Germans are not the same Nazi PartyGerman citizens

Rise of the Nazi Partycourtesy of USHMM Photo Archives

Hitlers PromisesBetter lifeGermany great nationRacial purityHitler Youth ParadeHitler Youth march through Nuremberg, Germany past Nazi officials.

DEFINTIONS:NAZI PARTYA POLITICAL GROUP THAT RULED GERMANY BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945

NUREMBURG LAWS LAWS THAT LEGALIZED DISCRIMINATION OF JEWS

You have no right to live among us as Jews.

DEFINTIONS:GHETTOSTHE POOR SECTION OF THE CITY WHERE JEWS WERE FORCED TO LIVE

ANTI-SEMITISMHATRED OF JEWS

You have no right to live among us.

DEFINTIONS:THE FINAL SOLUTIONTHE NAZI POLICY OF EXTERMINATING JEWS

CONCENTRATION CAMPSA PLACE WHERE MANY PEOPLE ARE IMPRISONED TO PROVIDE FORCED LABOR OR TO AWAIT MASS EXECUTION

You have no right to live !Photo credit: Leopold Page Photographic Collection

Entrance to AuschwitzWork will set you free

Camp Totals

STATISTICS BY COUNTRYJewish population before, Jewish population after Holocaust

HolocaustGenocideNazi PartyNuremburg LawsGhettosAnti-SemitismThe Final SolutionConcentration Camps

JewsAdolf HitlerAuschwitzPoland GermanyStar of DavidAryanPropaganda

*SLIDE 9 CONDITIONS IN GERMANY AT END OF WW1 AND MAP OF GERMANY/EUROPE Germany was a defeated nation the peace treaty (Treaty of Versailles) required Germany to pay large sums of money to each country they fought. The result was a large debt. The government/economy of Germany had to be rebuilt. It was a difficult period in German history because the people had no jobs and poverty was very common. When people are desperate, they look for 2 things: (1) strong leadership that promises improvement of their situation, and (2) a scapegoat on which to blame their situation. A scapegoat is someone who bears the blame for others even though it is not their fault. Then, the Stock Market crashed in 1929. The world as a whole was hit by the serious depression. In Germany in 1929, 1 million people were out of work; 1930, two million people were out of work, and by 1933, six million people were out of work. *SLIDE 11 RISE OF NAZI PARTY Hitler talked about 3 things. Economy promised people they would all have jobs, they would then have money, and life would be much better. Germany would once again become a prosperous nation and take its place among the nations of the world. Racial purity he believed that the Aryan people were superior people. An Aryan, according to Hitler, was a native-born German; who was white, blond, blue-eyed, handsome and very intelligent. Interestingly enough, Hitler was physically the opposite dark hair and dark eyes. Hitler thought the Aryan people were the people who were going to rule Germany and eventually the world. Hitler would then talk about those people he considered to be inferior people, and the Jews were at the top of the list. Jews made up less than 1% of the total population of Germany, yet Hitler blamed the Jews for everything bad that happened to Germany (World War I, and the bad economy.) The Jews became Hitlers scapegoats. Anti-Semiticism hatred of anything or anyone Jewish.

*SLIDE 13 YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE AMONG US AS JEWS.Having to wear yellow stars on clothing. *SLIDE 14 YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE AMONG US.Living in ghettos. *SLIDE 15 YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE.Sent to concentration camps and/or death camps.

*SLIDE 28 - MAP OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND KILLING CENTERSThe slide will automatically place swastikas on the concentration camps and skull/crossbones on the killing centers (also referred to as death camps and extermination camps). There were two kinds of concentration camps: "extermination" and "labor" camps. There were ultimately seven extermination and 10,000 labor camps. This map only shows the major camps The extermination camps were designed for the sole purpose of killing people, mainly Jews. The extermination camps (i.e., Auschwitz, Treblinka, etc.) were all located in Poland. None were located in Germany. The Nazis needed a fast method for the mass killings of the Jews. These were the only camps with the gassing chambers. However, many of the camps such as the labor camps had crematoriums. Prisoners in a labor or work camp (Dachau, Buchenwald, etc.) were worked to death or used in medical experiments. *SLIDE 27 - CAMP ENTRANCE: "ARBEIT MACHT FREI Work Will Set You Free

Above the gated-entry into the camp was a slogan - "Arbeit Macht Frei" which means "Work will set you free." While the Nazis did use some prisoners as slave laborers, killing was the major goal of this camp. Another mind game example. Once they were separated by sex, the victims waited in long lines to be checked by a doctor. He decided who would go to the gas chambers. Old people, sick people, women with children under 14, and all pregnant women were told to remove their clothing and then they were led to the shower rooms which were actually the gassing chambers. Guards threw canisters into the "showers" which exploded. At the end of 15 minutes, if the guard saw no one standing, doors were opened, bodies removed and an exhaust fan cleaned the bad air before the next group of people were brought in. Before the bodies were taken to the crematorium, a person's head was shaved and all dental work was removed. Then the bodies were placed in the ovens to burn.