The Holocaust

The Holocaust

• Holocaust = Mass murder of people by Nazi’s

• Aryans = Nazi’s claim they are the “Master Race”

• Hitler singles out Europe’s Jewish Population (11 Million)

• Kristallnacht = “Night of Broken Glass”– Jewish property destroyed– 100 Murdered by Nazi

Stormtroopers– Beginning of the Holocaust

Jewish Ghetto’s

• Segregation = Separation of people based on race / religion

• Segregated area’s within 3rd Reich for Jewish population

• Biggest Ghetto was in Warsaw, Poland (500,000)

• Characteristics of a Jewish Ghetto– Barbed wire / Stone wall

surrounding area– Poor sanitation – Food shortage– Disease

The Final Solution

• Genocide = Planned mass killing of an entire people

• Concentration Camps– “Labor” Camps– Largest = Auschwitz – Gas Chambers / Mass

Graves– 6000 killed a day– Medical experiments on

humans– Crematoriums to burn

bodies– Prisoners tattooed with

numbers to identify them

Jewish Resistance

• Many smuggled out into Switzerland, Great Britain, South North & South America

• Issued visa’s / passports / identity papers by sympathetic govt. agents

• Many living in Ghetto’s fight Nazi’s– Used Molotov Cocktails &

stolen weapons– Sabotaged bridges– Acted as spy’s for Allies – Most famous uprising in

Warsaw (1 Month)

The Effects of the Holocaust

• 6-8 Million European Jews murdered

• Billions of Dollars in property / fortunes lost

• Creation of Israel (Conflict in the Middle East)

• German High School student’s required to visit a Concentration Camp before they can graduate