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Warm-Up: Answer the following questions in your notebook (this is
just your opinion)
• What is a hate crime? • Why do you think hate crimes happen?
The Holocaust
10th GradeWorld History
What exactly are we talking about?
• Holocaust: the destruction or slaughter of human life on a mass scale.
• The Holocaust: The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45.
****Note: Jews were the primary victims– 6 million were murdered; Gypsies, handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and homosexuals also suffered grievous oppression and death.
Why did it happen?
The Holocaust took place because individuals, groups, and nations made decisions to act or not to act.
Kristallnacht: “Night of Broken Glass”
• Nov. 9, 1938– Nazis storm troopers
attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues throughout Germany.
• Approx. 100 Jews were murdered
• 30,000 men sent to concentration camps
Hitler Looks For Solutions to His “Jewish Problem”
• 1st: Emigration– Eventually countries
tired of accepting refugees
• 2nd: Ghettos– Segregated
neighborhoods where Jews were forced to live
• 3rd Final Solution
Final Solution
• Hitler’s systematic killing of Jews• Sent to concentration (extermination camps)– Auschwitz (largest)
• Gas chambers– Could kill up to 6,000 people/day
Death Camp Locations
Warm-Up: Using what you have learned in the previous
day’s lesson, copy and answer the questions
• What happened during Kristallnacht? • What was the reasoning behind Hitler’s “Final
Solution?
Auschwitz: Map
Auschwitz: Aerial View
Notice how the Death camp is set out like a factory complex
The Nazis used industrial methods to murder the Jews
and process their dead bodies
Gas Chambers: Outside
Notice the Ovens easy located near the Gas Chambers
Gas Chambers: Inside
Dead Bodies for Processin