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THE HOLOCAUST
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OBJECTIVES:
• DEFINE THE TERMS HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE.
• DESCRIBE ANTI- JEWISH POLICIES PASSED BY THE NAZIS IN THE 1930’S.
• IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE HITLER’S “FINAL SOLUTION” PROGRAM.
• DESCRIBE THE CONCENTRATION AND DEATH CAMPS USED IN WW II.
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DEFINTIONS:
• HOLOCAUST
• A PROGRAM OF MASS MURDER
• GENOCIDE • THE ANNIHILATON OF ENTIRE RACE
OF PEOPLE
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HOLOCAUST STATISTICS
01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,0008,000,0009,000,000
10,000,000
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JEWISHPOPULATION
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PROGRESSION OF DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS JEWS
• The NAZI party and Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933 and slowly began their program against the Jews of Germany
• In 1933 there were 566,000 Jews living in Germany.
• Each new year in Germany led to harsher policies directed towards the Jews.
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1933• NAZIS boycott Jewish
businesses• issue decree that
defines non-Aryans• Hermann Goering
creates the GESTAPO• first concentration
camps are built• Dachau - 3/22/33
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1934• Jews are not allowed
to have national health insurance
• the SS (Schutzstaffel) is formed
• Hitler becomes Der Fuherer and receives a 90% approval rating from the people
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1935- Nuremberg Race Laws
M arry o r h av e sexw ith A rya ns
h ire A rya n w o m ena s m a ids
h a ve r ig h ts o fc i t izen sh ip
Je w s a re no t a llow e d to :
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1936• SS Deathshead
division is created to guard camps
• Heinreich Himmler is appointed Chief of the German Police
• Olympic games in Berlin, Jews treated better - briefly.
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1937• Jews are not allowed
to teach Germans• not allowed to be
accountants or dentists• “Eternal Jew” exhibit
opened in Germany• this promoted stereo-
types of Jews and warned Germans
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1938• Nazi troops enter
Austria• League of Nations
considers helping Jews fleeing Hitler, but no country will take them
• Jews are not allowed to practice medicine
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1939-KRISTALLNACHT
• Night of Broken Glass• Jewish stores, shops
and synagogues burned down
• Took place because a German official was killed in Paris by a Jew
• November 9, 1939
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1939• Reinhard Heydrich is
ordered to speed up emigration of Jews
• The St. Louis is turned away from the US.
• Jews must hand over all gold and silver.
• Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia
• 350,000 Jews
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POLAND 1939• Sept. 1, 1939 Nazis
invade Poland• 3.35 million Jews• Hans Frank becomes
governor of Poland• Forced labor decree
issued and all Jews must wear yellow stars
“I ask nothing of Jews except that they should disappear”
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1940• German Jews are
deported to Poland• Ghettos of Lodz,
Krakow and Warsaw are sealed off.
• Total of 600,000 Jews• These ghettos will be
liquidated starting in 1942
German soldiers rounding up Jews to be placed in ghettos
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1941• Nazis invade the
Soviet Union• Jewish population of 3
million• Hitler issues infamous
“Commissar Order”• SS Einsatzgruppen
follow advance of German Army
“Liquidate all Communist officials you encounter!
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Einsatzgruppen• SS “Special Action Groups” organized in
early years of war by Reinhard Heydrich
• Heydrich organized 4 large groups (A,B,C,D) in Soviet Union
• Competition between group leaders to see who could kill the most Jews
• 1,300,000 Russian Jews killed by end of war by these “mobile killing units”
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EINSATZ AREA OF OPERATIONS
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Wannsee Conference
• Heydrich was ordered by Hermann Goering to prepare a “final solution” to the Jewish question
• Heydrich organized a meeting with 15 top Nazi officials in Berlin = Jan. 20, 1942
• Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons
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Reinhard Heydrich• Nicknamed “The
Blond Beast” and “Hangman Heydrich”
• second in command of Gestapo and SS
• principle planner of the Final Solution
• Brigadier General in SS at the age of 30
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Heydrich and Final Solution
• “Europe would be combed of Jews from East to West”
• “Madagascar Plan”• ordered Einsatzs to
round up and kill Jews in occupied countries
• leader of RSHA
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Heydrich assassinated 1942
• Czech underground agents bombed his car
• SS hunted down and killed 1000 suspects
• Czech town of Lidice was liquidated
• Hilter called him “The man with the iron heart.” 172 men shot in village of
Lidice in retaliation.
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FINAL SOLUTION
• “Now judgement has begun and it will reach its conclusion only when the knowledge of the Jews has been erased from the earth!” Nazi Newspaper
• there were 3 phases of the Nazi plan to wipe out the Jewish population of Europe
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Phase 1 = Shooting
• Jews were rounded up and told they were to be relocated
• They were taken to the woods and were shot one by one
• their bodies were buried in mass graves
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Phase 2 = Gas Vans
• Again, Jews were rounded up and told they were to be relocated in vans
• The vans were equipped so that the van’s exhaust was piped back into the van
700,000 Jews killed in Vans
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Problems with Phases 1,2
• The Nazis encountered several problems with the executions and gas vans
• First, they were both taking to much time
• Second, resources such as gas and munitions were becoming scarce
• Third, soldiers involved were beginning to have psychological problems with what they were doing.
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Phase 3 = The Camps
• Nazi leaders decided to drastically speed up the Final Solution
• there were two different types of camps:
• CONCENTRATION CAMPS
• EXTERMINATION CAMPS
• Jews from all over occupied Europe were to be brought here.
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CONCENTRATION
• 100 of these in Nazi-occupied Europe
• prisoners used for forced labor
• prisoners usually lasted less than 1/2 year
• communists, homosexuals, criminals, social-democrats, artists.
• First camp was opened in 1933, right after Nazis came to power
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RAVENSBRUCK• Camp for women only• run by German women
who were criminals• prisoners worked on
remodeling furs• 50,000 killed• 14,000 rescued by
Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadette negotiating for prisoners
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THERESIENSTADT
• Most humane camp• well connected Jews and
war veterans• Jews married to Aryans
could pay to go to this camp
• Red Cross inspected this camp, good rating
• stop over on the way to Auschwitz
Jewish band playing for Red Cross inspection team
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EXTERMINATION• Started out as ordinary concentration camps
• later modified with gassing installations for use on humans, now “DEATH CAMPS”
• two sub-groups:
• 1) Majdanek and Auschwitz, Birkenau
• 2) Operation Reinhard camps and Chelmno
• “NAZIS GET CLOSE TO CREATING HELL ON EARTH!!!”
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CHELMNO
Jews from the Lodz ghetto in Poland sent here
First death camp built = 1941
First to use Gas Vans on
Jews
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CAMPS IN POLAND
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MAJDANEK
• Established in 1941 as a POW camp
• started its part in the Final Solution in 1942
• Jews, Poles and Soviet POW’s sent here
• had two gas chambers to exterminate
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AUSCHWITZ
• Started operations in January 1940 (Poland)
• Himmler chose Auschwitz as the place for the Final Solution
• had 4 gas chambers/crematories by 1943
• mass killings with Zyklon B gas
• commanded by Rudolph Hoess
• recorded 12,000 kills in one day
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THE SS AT AUSCHWITZORDERED TO TAKE ALL POSSESSIONS FROM
JEWS
TEETH WITH GOLD
PILES OF GLASSES
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ZYKLON-BGAS USED TO KILL VERMIN. IT WAS INEXPENSIVE
COMPARED TO GAS. DROPPED FROM CEILINGS
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Dr. Josef Mengele
• Arrived in Auschwitz in May of 1943
• SS Doctor who had power of life/death
• performed medical experiments on Jewish children
“ANGEL OF DEATH”
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MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
• Sterilization of men and women• endurance of pain to high and low
temperatures and pressure• experiments on twins to increase number of
multiple births to Aryan women• injections of phenol to kill patients• Dr. Mengele attempted to sew children
together to make Siamese twins
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MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
EXTRACTED HUMAN ORGANS
EXPERIMENTS ON CHILDREN IN AUSCHWITZ
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OPERATION REINHARD
• Largest single massacre of Holocaust
• March 1942-November 1943
• named after Reinhard Heydrich
• carried out at three camps, run by the SS
• every Jew that arrived at one of the camps would be dead in 2 hours.
• Total of 1,700,000 Jews killed
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BELZEC
• MARCH 1942• JEWS FROM LUBIN
GHETTO- POLAND• OPERATIONS STOP
DECEMBER 1942• CAMP WAS
DISMANTLED AND PLOWED OVER AND PLANTED ON
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SOBIBOR
• MAY 1942• 3 GAS CHAMBERS• ESCAPE OF 300
JEWS AND SOVIET POW’S
• ONLY 50 LIVE• GAS CHAMBERS
SHUT DOWN AFTER ESCAPE
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TREBLINKA
• JEWS FROM WARSAW GHETTO
• 10 GAS CHAMBERS• LOCATED EAST OF
WARSAW• BODIES WERE
BURNED IN OPEN PITS
• AUGUST 1943
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Camp Totals
0200,000400,000600,000800,000
1,000,0001,200,0001,400,0001,600,000
Aus
chw
itz
Tre
blin
ka
Bel
zec
Sobi
bor
Che
lmo
Maj
dane
k
killed in camp
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STATISTICS BY COUNTRY
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
POLAND USSR HUNGARY GERMANY
BEFOREAFTER
Jewish population before, Jewish population after Holocaust
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