the holocaust a war within a war. the holocaust: war within a war genocide total annihilation of a...
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THE HOLOCAUST
A WAR WITHIN A WAR
The Holocaust: War Within a War
• GENOCIDE
Total annihilation of a race or group of people
• ANTI-SEMITISM
The hatred of Jews
• Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s failures
• SCAPEGOATS
• Jews forced from their homes and relocated to slums called ghettos
• After 1941 Germany developed
ENDLOSUNG
(the Final Solution)
• 1941-1942 – mass extinction of Jews using bullets
• Method deemed too slow
• New method – gas chamber
• Zyklon-B (pesticide at the time for killing bugs, rodents on ships, buildings etc.)
• Jews separated on arrival to Concentration Camp based on ability to do work
• Able bodied men in one line
• Elderly, women, children, sick in the other
• Men worked to death through attrition or SS beatings
• Others gassed right away
• News did not reach England and N. America until 1944
• Much of it viewed as propoganda since nobody could believe something that bad was possibly true
• Estimates of 2/3 of all European Jews murdered during this time period
• Who else?
POLICIAL PRISONERS
JEHOVAH’S WITNESS
POW
GYPSIES
6 MILLION DEATHS
• WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THE HOLOCAUST