Genocides and The Holocaust

Do Now – Friday 5.16.2015•Write down everything you know about the Holocaust and

Japanese-American Internment in the two boxes.

• Take out your Japanese-American Internment reading if it is had not been handed in yet.

Instructions – Holocaust Photo Analysis

• Goal: Who is responsible for the Holocaust?

• 1. After you have been given your group of 3 (random), you will be given a photo that represents an event from the Holocaust.• 2. Look carefully at the photo and answer Section 1 of the Picture

Analysis Worksheet (5 minutes).

Genocide – FILL OUT THIS FOR DO NOW!• Definition - the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially

those of a particular ethnic group or nation.• Synonyms – mass murder or massacre.

Are genocides common?People /Year Number of Victims Reason

Native Americans – 1500s to 1900s

Armenians in the Ottoman Empire - 1915

Tens of Millions (some say up to 100,000,000)

1 million

Land, Power, Greed

Religious – Christian v. Muslim

The Holocaust – 1930s and 1940s

7-11 million Nazis framed Jews as reasons behind the problems of Germany.

Bosnia – 1990s 100,000 Ethnic

Rwanda – 1990s

Sudan – 2003-Current

1,000,000 in 100 days

300,000

Ethnic

Government v. People

The Holocaust – Why the Jews?• Hitler blamed the Jews for all the problems Germany had faced in

World War I and the Great Depression.• Hitler was convinced the only way to improve or purify Germany was

to “eliminate” the Jews and any other group of undesirables.• Poles • Slavs (Russians)• Gypsies• Mentally ill• Political dissidents

Anti-Semitism and Aryan Supremacy • The ideas of Anti-Semitism and Aryan Supremacy played a major role

in the entire Holocaust:

• Anti-Semitism - The prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group.

• Aryan Supremacy - the idea that the Nazi race was supreme to all others.

Anti-Semitic Poster #1

How were the Jews discriminated against?• Boycotting Jewish Businesses – In 1933, many Jewish businesses were

forced to close and Germans were ordered not to shop there.

Jewish Discrimination (continued)• In the late 1930s, Jews were forced to leave their homes and required

to move to ghettos, or areas that are settled by a large majority of one ethnic or racial group.

Jewish ghettos in Europe – 1941-1942

“The Final Solution” – 1943-44• The “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem” was Hitler’s decision to

transport the Jews from the ghettos around Europe to Concentration and Death Camps where they would be killed by the millions.• Gas Chambers • Mass Shootings • Starvation • Overwork• Death Marches

Map of Concentration and Death Camps in Europe

The Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg Trials – 1945-1949• Nazi criminals were brought to trial and charged with crimes against

humanity.• Many were found guilty and either hanged, shot, or spent the rest of

their lives in prison.

• “Following orders from a superior during war does not free you from individual responsibility of your actions.”