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32.3 THE HOLOCAUST
WORLD HISTORYPETERSON SCHOOLMR.HOOD
MAIN IDEAEMPIRE BUILDING.
DURING THE HOLOCAUST, HITLER`S NAZIS KILLED SIX MILLION JEWS
AND FIVE MILLION OTHER “NON ARYANS”.
WHY IT MATTERS NOW THE VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS
DURING THE HOLOCAUST LED TO THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL
AFTER WORLD WAR II.
INTRODUCTION
NAZIS PROPOSED A NEW RACIAL
ORDER
GERMANIC PEOPLE OR ARYANS WERE THE “MASTER
RACE”
ALL NON-ARYANS WERE INFERIOR
PARTICULARLY THE JEWISH
THIS RACIST MESSAGE WOULD LEAD TO THE
HOLOCAUST
THE SYSTEMATIC MASS SLAUGHTER
OF JEWS
AND OTHER GROUPS
JUDGED INFERIOR BY THE NAZIS
OBJECTIVE 1TRACE THE COURSE
OF THE PERSECUTION
ADOLF HITLER APPOINTED CHANCELLOR OF
GERMANY 1933
NUREMBERG LAWS OF 1935
DEPRIVED JEWS OF THEIR RIGHTS
KRISTALLNACHT 1938
NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS
KRISTALLNACHT MARKED A MAJOR STEP-UP IN NAZI POLICY OF JEWISH
PERSECUTION
MANY JEWS FLED TO OTHER COUNTRIES
AT FIRST HITLER FAVORED THIS SOLUTION TO “JEWISH
PROBLEM”
“WE ALL WANT TO GET RID OF OUR JEWS. THE
DIFFICULT IS THAT NO COUNTRY WISHES TO RECIEVE THEM”
MANY JEWS REMAINED IN GERMANY + LATER HITLER CONQUERED TERRITORIES WITH
MILLIONS OF JEWS
SO HITLER ORDERED ALL JEWS TO LIVE IN
DESIGNATED CITIES
NAZIS HERDED JEWS INTO OVERCROWDED
GHETTOS
THE NAZIS SEALED OFF GHETTOS WITH BARBED WIRE +
STONE WALLS
THEY HOPED JEWS WOULD STARVE TO DEATH OR DIE
FROM DISEASE
BUT HITLER SOON GREW
IMOPATIENT WAITING FOR JEWS TO DIE
OBJECTIVE 2DESCRIBE THE
RESULTS OF THE “FINAL SOLUTION”.
HITLER DECIDED TO TAKE MORE DIRECT
ACTION
HIS PLAN WAS CALLED THE “FINAL SOLUTION”
IT WAS A
PROGRAM OF GENOCIDE
GENOCIDE IS THE KILLING OF AN ENTIRE
PEOPLE
HITLER BELIEVED HIS PLAN OF CONQUEST…
…DEPENDED ON THE PURITY OF THR ARYAN
RACE
THE NAZIS HAD TO ELIMATE OTHER RACES
+ FOCUSED ESPECIALLY ON THE JEWS
THE S.S. MOVED FROM TOWN TO TOWN TO HUNT DOWN
JEWS
ROUNDED UP MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN AND BABIES
TOOK THEM TO ISOLATED SPOTS AND PUT THEM IN MASS
GRAVES
MEANWHILE THE GHETTOS
WERE LIQUIDATED, OR EMPTIED
JEWS WERE DEPORTED AND TAKEN TO CONCENTRATION
CAMPS
TRANSPORTED IN CATTLE TRAINS
CONCENTRATION CAMPS WERE
SLAVE LABOR CAMPS
JEWISH PRISONERS WERE WORKED OR BEATEN
TO DEATH
HITLER HOPED THE HORRIBLE CONDITIONS WOULD SPEED UP THE
ELIMINATION OF JEWS
BUT BY 1942 THE NAZIS HAD
BUILT EXTERMINATION CAMPS
LIKE AUSCHWITZ
AUSCHWITZ EQUIPPED WITH HUGE GAS
CHAMBERS
GAS CHAMBERS WOULD KILL UP 6,000
JEWS PER DAY
NAZIS INSTALLED CREMATORIUMS, OR OVENS, TO
BURN THE BODIES
6 MILLION JEWS DIED IN THE DEATH
CAMPS
5 MILLION OTHER
NON-ARYANS WERE ALSO KILLED
SOME MANAGED TO ESCAPE AND SHARE THEIR
EXPERIENCES
WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST BECAUSE
OF THEM